Cultural
White Block Gallery by SsD features fritted glass designed to evoke morning fog
Olson Kundig’s Tacoma Art Museum wing has movable screens that “roll like railroad box cars”
David Adjaye designs new home for Harlem’s Studio Museum
Rogers Stirk Harbour to design conservation facility for Musée du Louvre
MVRDV’s Spijkenisse library has become a “proud mountain of books” says Winy Maas
Concave facades on twin buildings by Moon Hoon create moon-shaped indents
Kingston University students erect a Japanese pavilion in the garden of a museum
Rafael de La-Hoz elevates a cultural centre around two plazas in Alcobendas
Rainbow Chapel by Coordination Asia is a multi-coloured wedding venue in Shanghai
SO-IL adds decorative brick entrance to Tina Kim Gallery in Manhattan
SANAA triumphs in hotly contested Sydney Modern gallery competition
Carmody Groarke’s new White Cube gallery is an angular timber and plastic pavilion
Mecanoo scales back additions to Mies van der Rohe’s Washington DC library
Small chapel by Estudio Cella stands alone in the heart of an Argentinian forest
MVRDV’s Stedelijk Museum renovation makes way for the historical details says Nathalie de Vries
Omgeving’s black brick library in Zoersel is subdivided into smaller blocks
House of Music represents a “very simple but powerful typology” says Wolf D Prix
Schmidt Hammer Lassen completes Scandinavia’s largest library
Garage Museum of Contemporary Art by OMA opens in Moscow
MVRDV’s Zaanstad Cultural Cluster will house five Dutch institutions in one building
Shanghai art museum by Atelier Deshaus brings together vaulted columns and an industrial relic
Francisco Mangado expands a Spanish museum by adding a new building behind a historic facade
Steven Holl’s long-delayed Queens library finally breaks ground
