In this week's comments update, readers discussed Niall McLaughlin Architects' red-brick International Rugby Experience museum in Limerick, Ireland. More about "Clearly gorgeous but how does it celebrate the game of rugby?" asks commenter
Stirling Prize-winning studio Niall McLaughlin Architects has completed a seven-storey museum in Limerick, Ireland, with vaulted ceilings and walls designed to "reflect the forces found in rugby". More about Niall McLaughlin Architects creates red-brick beacon for International Rugby Experience in Ireland
British designer Thomas Heatherwick's studio is designing the Jeddah Central Museum in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, which will be located in a former desalination plant by the Red Sea. More about Heatherwick set to turn Saudi Arabian desalination plant into museum
Engaging design has the power to make the future tangible, The Liminal Space co-founder Sarah Douglas tells Dezeen in this interview. More about "Design enables you to step into an imagined space" says The Liminal Space co-founder Sarah Douglas
Selldorf Architects, Diamond Schmitt and Two Row Architect have released designs for a gallery to be added to the complex of buildings at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto. More about Selldorf Architects and Diamond Schmitt release design for Art Gallery of Ontario's seventh expansion
Chinese architecture studio Neri&Hu has added an extension to the Qujiang Museum of Fine Arts in Xi'an, China, that was designed to "serve as a source of illumination for the surrounding urban fabric". More about Neri&Hu adds "glowing lantern" on top of Qujiang Museum of Fine Arts in Xi’an
Architecture studios Kuehn Malvezzi, Pelletier de Fontenay and Jodoin Lamarre Pratte Architectes have created an insect zoo and museum with interiors that emulate the experience of being a bug. More about Kuehn Malvezzi designs Montreal Insectarium to subvert "museological norms and expectations"
A rammed-earth extension is set to be added to the neoclassical National Archaeological Museum in Athens as part of a refurbishment by David Chipperfield Architects' studio in Berlin. More about David Chipperfield designs rammed-earth extension for Athens museum
Curved buildings and a massive earthen mound feature at a museum in Oklahoma that was designed by architecture studio Johnson Fain over two decades ago and is finally complete. More about Johnson Fain completes curvilinear First Americans Museum after decades of work
Local studio Mathew & Ghosh Architects has completed the Museum of Art & Photography in Bengaluru, India. More about Mathew & Ghosh Architects encloses Bengaluru art museum in stainless steel "water tank"
American studio Lever Architecture has revealed its proposal for the Portland Museum of Art campus expansion in Maine, with a design that aims to honour the state's history through the use of mass timber. More about Lever Architecture designs "Maine's next great landmark" for art museum expansion
London practice ZMMA has transformed the home of artist Thomas Gainsborough in Sudbury, Suffolk, into a gallery and museum with a material palette of redbrick and flint informed by his landscape paintings. More about ZMMA references landscape paintings for revamp of Gainsborough House in Suffolk
Architecture studio Snøhetta has unveiled its design for a Miami outpost of the New York City museum dedicated to "celebrating the cultural significance of human sexuality". More about Snøhetta to expand Museum of Sex to Miami in "most ambitious undertaking yet"
An extension made of blue corrugated metal panels has been added to a laneway house in Toronto's Chinatown neighbourhood to create a new museum and residence for the Canadian artist Charles Pachter. More about Firma completes home and museum for artist Charles Pachter
Australian studios Architectus, Durbach Block Jaggers, Tyrrell Studio, Youssofzay + Hart, Akira Isogawa, Yerrabingin, Finding Infinity, and Arup have unveiled a redesign to Powerhouse Ultimo in Sydney. More about Sydney's Powerhouse Ultimo museum set to be housed in "sandstone escarpment"
Kengo Kuma and Associates has completed a major extension to the Paris museum of late philanthropist Albert Kahn, which holds a historic collection of 72,000 photographs from around the world. More about Kengo Kuma adds Japanese-influenced wing to Musée Albert Kahn in Paris
The latest edition of our weekly Dezeen Debate newsletter features SANAA's extension of the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney. Subscribe to Dezeen Debate now. More about Dezeen Debate features SANAA's "overlapping" Sydney Modern extension
Environmentalists and architecture critics have raised concerns about the carbon footprint of a major new museum for modern art designed by Herzog & de Meuron, which is under construction in Berlin. More about Herzog & de Meuron's Museum of the 20th Century an "environmental disgrace" say critics
Pritzker Architecture Prize-winning studio SANAA has extended the Art Gallery of New South Wales with a series of pavilions that step down towards Sydney Harbour. More about SANAA designs Sydney Modern to be "harmonious with its surroundings"
New York studio Ennead Architects has revealed its design for a museum that is set to be built within Shangxianhe Wetland Park in the city of Wuxi, China. More about Ennead Architects designs Wuxi Art Museum to emulate "natural erosion of spirit stones"