Cultural
Curvaceous concrete crematorium by Plan 01 offers “dignified and serene setting” for mourners
James Turrell and Schmidt Hammer Lassen unveil extension for ARoS art museum
Estudio ALA completes terracotta chapel at a Mexican tequila factory
Cross-shaped facade added to art museum in a former monastery
Sutherland Hussey Harris adds angular brick tower to Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop
Sanjo Hokusei Community Centre designed by Yasunari Tsukada to look like a pair of houses
Vector Architects disguises mountainside community centre beneath sprawling grass roof
Snøhetta’s new building for SFMOMA nears completion
Damien Hirst’s Newport Street Gallery photographed by Hélène Binet
Cave-shaped and plant-covered museum by Kengo Kuma is dedicated to Filipino history
Renzo Piano to convert Moscow power station into art gallery
Thatched “umbrella-like” roof tops bamboo community centre by Vo Trong Nghia
Foster + Partners’ Roman history museum begins construction in south of France
Studio Gang designs curving concrete expansion to New York’s Natural History Museum
David Adjaye’s Aïshti Foundation gallery and shopping centre nears completion in Beirut
Bureau V converts an old Brooklyn sawdust factory into a concert hall
Chicago approves MAD’s George Lucas Museum plans
Chipperfield boycotts opening of his Milan museum amid legal proceedings
Staab Architekten chosen to extend Berlin’s Bauhaus-Archiv with “almost frail” design
Coloured “mountains” protrude from children’s science museum by LHSA+DP
Archi-Union Architects completes Shanghai arts space with sweeping concrete walls
Kengo Kuma creates sprawling “village” of folk-art galleries for China Academy of Arts
Museum dedicated to the fairytales of the Brothers Grimm has a stepped roof overlooking Kassel
