Design Miami 2013: architect Norman Foster plans to add a row of stone pavilions to the Norton Museum of Art in Florida as part of a major overhaul that will double the building's gallery space, and he unveiled the designs yesterday during the opening of the Art Basel Miami Beach and Design Miami fairs. More about Foster unveils extension plans for Florida's Norton Museum of Art
Design Miami 2013: here's a preview of the nearly completed Pérez Art Museum Miami by Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron, which opens tomorrow to coincide with the Design Miami and Art Basel Miami Beach collectors' fairs, and which suggests a new "kind of vernacular" for the city according to Jacques Herzog (+ slideshow + photography is by Iwan Baan). More about Herzog & de Meuron's Pérez Art Museum creates new "vernacular" for Miami
The new Museum Luthers Sterbehaus by Stuttgart architects Von M is a grey-brick extension to the house where Martin Luther died - but it turns out the Christian reformer "actually died in another building around the corner" (+ slideshow + photos by Zooey Braun). More about Martin Luther "death house" museum by Von M built at wrong address
News: Danish architecture firm BIG has won a competition to design a new Museum of the Human Body in Montpellier, France. More about BIG wins competition to design Museum of the Human Body in Montpellier
Architecture studio Renzo Piano Building Workshop has completed the extension to the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, doubling the gallery space originally designed by American architect Louis Kahn (+ slideshow). More about Renzo Piano completes extension to Louis Kahn's Kimbell Art Museum
An art gallery designed by David Chipperfield Architects to showcase the largest private art collection in Latin America opened this weekend in Mexico City (+ slideshow). More about Museo Jumex by David Chipperfield opens in Mexico City
Thatch covers both the walls and roof of this wildlife museum and research centre in Beautour, France (+ slideshow). More about Beautour thatched museum and biodiversity research centre by Guinée*Potin Architectes
News: New York architect Steven Holl has won a competition to design four museums in Qingdao, China, with a concept for a series of "art islands" linked by a looping route of galleries and pathways (+ movie). More about Steven Holl to design four museums for new complex in China
Movie: in our final exclusive interview with the winners at this year's World Architecture Festival in Singapore, architect Michael Rayner discusses the National Maritime Museum of China, which was crowned World Future Project of the Year 2013. More about "There isn't much understanding of China's maritime past"
Dutch Design Week 2013: Dutch firm Bierman Henket architecten has added an extension shaped like a rugby ball on top of a neo-classical museum in the city of Zwolle (+ slideshow). More about Museum De Fundatie by Bierman Henket architecten
New Orleans firm Trahan Architects used over a thousand cast stone panels to create the undulating interior of this museum in Natchitoches, Louisiana (+ slideshow). More about Louisiana State Museum and Sports Hall of Fame by Trahan Architects
Danish architecture studio BIG has completed an underground maritime museum that loops around an old dry dock in Helsingør, Denmark (+ slideshow). More about Danish National Maritime Museum by BIG
World Architecture Festival 2013: the Future Project of the Year award at the World Architecture Festival has been given to a museum for China's maritime heritage, proposed in Tianjin. More about National Maritime Museum of China wins Future Project of the Year 2013
This museum in Warsaw, Poland, by Finnish studio Lahdelma & Mahlamäki Architects has a deep, cavernous entrance hall that cuts right through the building (+ slideshow). More about Museum of the History of Polish Jews by Lahdelma & Mahlamäki Architects
This volcano museum in western Hungary features walls of dark concrete and Corten steel designed by Budapest studio Foldes Architects to reference the colours of volcanic rock and lava (+ slideshow). More about Kemenes Volcanopark Visitor Centre by Foldes Architects
This maritime museum in the Netherlands by Dutch studio Mecanoo features reclaimed wooden cladding and a zig-zagging roof that reference the gabled houses of the surrounding hamlet (+ slideshow). More about Kaap Skil Maritime and Beachcombers Museum by Mecanoo
News: the world's largest free-standing museum dedicated to photography is set to be built in Morocco by British firm David Chipperfield Architects. More about Chipperfield to design photography museum for Marrakech
Opinion: in the first of his monthly columns for Dezeen, V&A senior curator Kieran Long argues that today's obsession with authorship and celebrity "leads to serious imbalances in the way we see design in the world" and calls for an overhaul of the way design is curated in the twenty-first century. More about "Sinister objects demand attention just as much as beneficial ones"
News: architecture firm Kohn Pedersen Fox has unveiled plans to surround the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles in a cloak of steel ribbons as part of major refurbishment. More about KPF to wrap steel ribbons around LA's Petersen Automotive Museum
The MuSe Museum by Italian architect Renzo Piano has opened to the public in Trento, Italy, and features angled profiles that echo the shapes of the nearby Dolomites mountains (+ slideshow). More about MuSe Museum by Renzo Piano Building Workshop