American architect Richard Meier has created a private museum and library in New Jersey to house his vast collection of models, sculptures, paintings and books from a career spanning more than five decades (+ slideshow). More about Richard Meier creates private museum in New Jersey to showcase his work
Yoon Space Design has completed a gallery dedicated to the work of South Korean potter Jung Gil-Young, featuring mirrored walls that help camouflage the building against its countryside setting (+ slideshow). More about Gallery for ceramic artist Jung Gil-Young is camouflaged behind mirrored walls
Green aluminium panels cover the facade of this contemporary art gallery in Auckland, New Zealand, where a ceiling shaped like a gramophone horn funnels in light from an opening in the roof (+ slideshow). More about Auckland art gallery by Mitchell and Stout Architects features an aluminium-plated facade
The windows of this art gallery in South Korea's Paju district are fritted with a pattern that regulates views of the interior, and creates the illusion of fog around the edges of the building (+ slideshow). More about White Block Gallery by SsD features fritted glass designed to evoke morning fog
Olson Kundig Architects has extended a Washington art museum, adding a facade of movable hand-wheel operated screens to protect the artworks from natural light (+ slideshow). More about Olson Kundig's Tacoma Art Museum wing has movable screens that "roll like railroad box cars"
Seoul studio Chae-Pereira Architects has added a greenhouse-like educational facility clad in translucent plastic panels to an arts centre in the South Korean city of Gwangmyeong (+ slideshow). More about Irregular gables give a jagged roofline to Chae-Pereira's Gwangmyeong Upcycle Art Center
Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto used locally sourced materials to create this countryside arts venue at a former farm on the outskirts of Guangzhou, China (+ slideshow). More about Sou Fujimoto uses seashells and thatching for village-inspired arts complex in rural China
This glazed house-shaped gallery sits within an old barn in a English village without appearing to touch the floor, the thick stone walls or the timber-truss roof (+ slideshow). More about Private art gallery by Stonewood Design cantilevers into a 17th-century Cotswolds barn
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
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
Claesson Koivisto Rune has designed an art gallery in Marfa, Texas, which is the Stockholm studio's first completed project in the USA. More about Claesson Koivisto Rune pays tribute to Donald Judd with first US building
Parisian studio FREAKS freearchitects has covered a series of elaborately decorated galleries inside the Palais du Louvre with shiny plastic for an exhibition that brings together historic and contemporary design (+ slideshow). More about FREAKS freearchitects masks ornate decor inside the Palais du Louvre for design exhibition
Rem Koolhaas' firm has converted a century-old distillery in Milan into a new arts centre for Fondazione Prada, featuring a "haunted house" clad in 24-carat gold leaf and a cinema camouflaged by mirrors (+ slideshow). More about OMA's Fondazione Prada art centre opens in Milan
This Japanese family home by FORM/Kouichi Kimura Architects is arranged as a series of framed spaces, with the ground floor dominated by an art gallery and workspace (+ slideshow). More about Kouichi Kimura's Framing House combines a home and a gallery
Smears of paint and plaster are left exposed on the walls of this design studio and gallery in Japan, which also features a breeze-block wall and an indoor garden (+ slideshow). More about Ninkipen! leaves walls unfinished inside Kyoto design gallery and atelier
London studio Matheson Whiteley has revitalised a trio of dilapidated 1940s warehouses to create a new contemporary art gallery opposite one of the city's historic churches (+ slideshow). More about Modern Art gallery takes over three London warehouses opposite a Hawksmoor church
Danish firm Henning Larsen Architects has been selected to design a new branch of one of Sweden's most important art galleries, which will form an extension of a century-old regional museum in Östersund. More about Henning Larsen Architects to design outpost for Swedish National Museum
Architecture studio AOC has created an interactive gallery space at London's Wellcome Collection museum, featuring a grand stairway lined with cushions where visitors are invited to sit and read (+ slideshow). More about AOC combines a reading room with a gallery for London's Wellcome Collection