US president Barack Obama has chosen Jackson Park in Chicago as the site to build the library that will commemorate his term in office. More about Obama selects Chicago's Jackson Park for presidential library site
Local firm FABG has made major improvements to the Musée d'art de Joliette outside Montreal, restoring the original building and adding three new volumes to the museum (+ slideshow). More about FABG renovates and expands Quebec's Musée d'art de Joliette
A+Awards: the next project in our collaboration with Architizer is a tinted concrete and steel crematorium in Holsbeek, Belgium, which was named as one of the winners in the religious buildings and memorials category at the 2016 A+Awards (+ slideshow). More about Coussée & Goris and RCR Arquitectes use iron-coloured concrete for Belgian crematorium
This proposal for a concrete chapel by Joaquim Portela Arquitetos is designed to reach up towards the sky from its site in the Swiss Alps (+ slideshow). More about Alpine chapel designed by Joaquim Portela Arquitetos as a giant light funnel
World heritage Corb: one of French-Swiss architect Le Corbusier's lesser-known buildings among the 17 recently added to UNESCO's World Heritage List is a concrete museum in Tokyo, which holds a collection dedicated to western thought and art. More about Le Corbusier's National Museum of Western Art is his only building in the Far East
World Heritage Corb: Le Corbusier's Dominican monastery in France is considered one of his most important works, and is next in our series revisiting the 17 buildings by the architect that have been added to UNESCO's World Heritage List (+ slideshow). More about Le Corbusier's La Tourette monastery is among his iconic buildings on the World Heritage List
World Heritage Corb: next up in our series on the 17 Le Corbusier buildings that have just been added to UNESCO's World Heritage list is the Maison de la Culture, a cultural centre in Firminy, France (+ slideshow). More about Maison de la Culture by Le Corbusier features an asymmetrically curved concrete roof
Heritage body UNESCO has added 17 projects by 20th-century French architect Le Corbusier to its list of internationally significant architecture sites, including the Unité d'Habitation housing in Marseille – arguably the most influential Brutalist building of all time (+ slideshow). More about UNESCO adds 17 Le Corbusier projects to World Heritage List
This huge bulbous building by XTU Architects creates a wine museum on the Bordeaux riverfront (+ slideshow). More about Bordeaux wine museum by XTU Architects features bulging gold-striped body
John McAslan + Partners is developing new designs for the huge Baitul Futuh Mosque complex in south London, which was damaged by a fire last year. More about John McAslan to redesign Britain's largest mosque in south London
Panes of transparent and translucent glass create a gridded facade for this photography museum in Albania by Dutch studio Casanova + Hernandez Architects (+ slideshow). More about Albanian photography museum by Casanova + Hernandez features gridded glass walls
Massive earthen sculptures and a wooden concert hall form part of the new Tippet Rise Art Center, a vast performance venue and park in a remote area of Montana (+ slideshow). More about Tippet Rise Art Center opens on a cattle ranch in rural Montana
Graduate shows 2016: the UK's high-speed railway network could incorporate an underground swimming pool, museum and concert hall, suggests Royal College of Art graduate Ciaran Scannell. More about Ciaran Scannell proposes "fantastical world" in London's HS2 railway tunnels
Danish studio Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter has revealed its designs for a climate research and visitor centre in Greenland, featuring a tent-like structure and a rooftop platform for observing icebergs (+ slideshow). More about Dorte Mandrup unveils plans for tent-like climate research centre in Greenland
Towering bamboo poles encase this cylindrical wooden theatre in France, which opened in a fanfare last week, despite suffering vandalism just a few days before (+ slideshow). More about Shakespearean-style wooden theatre by Studio Andrew Todd opens in France
Filmmaker George Lucas has confirmed that he is pulling his MAD-designed museum from Chicago and plans to move the proposal to America's West Coast. More about George Lucas abandons Chicago museum proposal in favour of California
Italian architect Renzo Piano has finished a major new park, library and theatre complex in Athens, following one of the largest donations for a cultural building project in history (+ slideshow). More about Renzo Piano completes Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center on a huge artificial hill
A concrete chapel raised above the tide of a Chinese beach was popular this week, so we've pinned dozens of picturesque chapels from our archive to a new Pinterest board.
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Graduate shows 2016: architecture graduate Kit Stiby Harris has proposed relocating the "fake" Parthenon from Athens to the British Museum in London. More about Parthenon could be moved to London, says RCA graduate Kit Stiby Harris
Beijing studio Vector Architects has built a concrete chapel on a Chinese beach, but raised it up above the sands so that seawater can wash underneath (+ slideshow). More about Tidal waters wash underneath Seashore Chapel by Vector Architects