British architect David Adjaye has been commissioned to design a new home for the Studio Museum in Harlem – an institution dedicated to promoting the work of artists of African descent. More about David Adjaye designs new home for Harlem's Studio Museum
A team headed up by British firm Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners has been selected to design a new conservation and storage centre for the Musée du Louvre, housing 250,000 works of art. More about Rogers Stirk Harbour to design conservation facility for Musée du Louvre
MVRDV's Nathalie de Vries explains how she used "a wallpaper" of storage and furnishings to transform a Neoclassical chapel into the entrance for the Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, in the second in a series of exclusive movies profiling the Dutch studio's work. More about MVRDV's Stedelijk Museum renovation makes way for the historical details says Nathalie de Vries
The front and rear facades of this library in Zoersel, Belgium, have been divided up into house-sized volumes to help the large building fit into its residential context (+ slideshow). More about Omgeving's black brick library in Zoersel is subdivided into smaller blocks
In the first of a series of exclusive movies profiling buildings by Dutch firm MVRDV, architect and studio co-founder Winy Maas looks back at Book Mountain – a library contained within a glass pyramid. More about MVRDV's Spijkenisse library has become a "proud mountain of books" says Winy Maas
A huge sphere appears to have imprinted the concrete facades of these neighbouring buildings near Seoul, both designed by South Korean architect Moon Hoon (+ slideshow). More about Concave facades on twin buildings by Moon Hoon create moon-shaped indents
Coop Himmelb(l)au founder Wolf D Prix explains how the design of his House of Music concert hall in Denmark was influenced by a monastery by Le Corbusier in this movie by architectural filmmakers Spirit of Space. More about House of Music represents a "very simple but powerful typology" says Wolf D Prix
Danish firm Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects has completed a 30,000-square-metre library in Aarhus, Denmark, with a faceted metal-clad volume on top and a new train station underneath (+ slideshow). More about Schmidt Hammer Lassen completes Scandinavia's largest library
London Festival of Architecture 2015: a scale replica of a gateway to an ancient temple in Japan has been constructed in the grounds of the Dorich House Museum in south London by architecture students from Kingston University. More about Kingston University students erect a Japanese pavilion in the garden of a museum
This cultural centre in the Spanish town of Alcobendas comprises an elevated concrete structure supported by rows of pillars and a pair of grand public courtyards (+ slideshow). More about Rafael de La-Hoz elevates a cultural centre around two plazas in Alcobendas
The polycarbonate-clad Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, designed by Rem Koolhaas' firm OMA, has opened in a refurbished Soviet-era restaurant in Moscow's Gorky Park (+ slideshow). More about Garage Museum of Contemporary Art by OMA opens in Moscow
Dutch architecture firm MVRDV has won a competition to design the Cultural Cluster in the heart of the city of Zaanstad, with a proposal to group multiple institutions inside one building – each with their own house-shaped presence on the facade. More about MVRDV's Zaanstad Cultural Cluster will house five Dutch institutions in one building
Couples with a love of stained glass can now get married in a kaleidoscopic wedding chapel next to a Shanghai glass museum (+ slideshow). More about Rainbow Chapel by Coordination Asia is a multi-coloured wedding venue in Shanghai
Brooklyn studio SO-IL has used corbelled brickwork to create a textured entrance to an art gallery in New York's Chelsea neighbourhood. More about SO-IL adds decorative brick entrance to Tina Kim Gallery in Manhattan
These new shots by photography duo Hufton + Crow depict the Long Museum West Bund – a contemporary art gallery in Shanghai built around an industrial structure once used for unloading huge quantities of coal (+ slideshow). More about Shanghai art museum by Atelier Deshaus brings together vaulted columns and an industrial relic
Spanish architect Francisco Mangado has created contemporary galleries for a fine arts museum in northern Spain by inserting a crystalline glass building behind the leftover facade of a demolished block. More about Francisco Mangado expands a Spanish museum by adding a new building behind a historic facade
SANAA has been selected to design a new building for Art Gallery NSW in Sydney, ahead of architects including Kengo Kuma, David Chipperfield, Renzo Piano and Herzog & de Meuron. More about SANAA triumphs in hotly contested Sydney Modern gallery competition
London studio Carmody Groarke has used timber and plastic to build a temporary exhibition space for the White Cube art gallery in the grounds of a country house in East Sussex, England (+ slideshow). More about Carmody Groarke's new White Cube gallery is an angular timber and plastic pavilion
After years of delay, a new public library by Steven Holl has broken ground in Queens, on a prominent site overlooking the East River and the Manhattan skyline (+ slideshow). More about Steven Holl's long-delayed Queens library finally breaks ground
This cast-concrete library sits on a stretch of deserted beach facing the East China Sea and features a tiered reading hall topped by a curving ceiling (+ movie). More about Vector Architects completes a seaside library with board-marked concrete walls