Following a fire at dance centre Jacob's Pillow in 2020, Dutch architecture studio Mecanoo has completed the Doris Duke Theatre on the Massachusetts, USA campus, with a design guided by Indigenous principles. More about Mecanoo completes "magic wooden box" theatre at Jacob's Pillow in Massachusetts
An arts centre designed by Balkrishna Doshi in Ahmedabad, India, has been extended by Studio Sangath, the architecture studio co-led by the Pritzker Architecture Prize winner's granddaughter. More about Balkrishna Doshi's granddaughter adds black box theatre to his Kanoria Centre for Arts
Architecture studio Atelier Apeiron has completed the Hengqin Culture and Art Complex in Zhuhai, China. More about Atelier Apeiron tops arched cultural centre with terraced roof garden
Danish studio BIG has designed a curving folded roof informed by traditional Kosovan skirts for the Opera and Ballet Theatre of Kosovo in Pristina. More about BIG to wrap Kosovo opera and ballet theatre in sculptural photovoltaic roof
White Arkitekter's Sara Kulturhus in Sweden is next in our 21st-Century Architecture: 25 Years 25 Buildings series, after bringing one of the world's tallest timber buildings to the small subarctic city of Skellefteå. More about Sara Kulturhus by White Arkitekter was the most significant building of 2021
The latest edition of our Dezeen Debate newsletter features a conical community venue by Open Architecture. Subscribe to Dezeen Debate now. More about Dezeen Debate features "cultural hit for generations to come"
Chinese studio Open Architecture has completed the 50-metre-tall Sun Tower, which has a conical concrete form designed to follow the path of the sun, in Yantai, northeast China. More about Open Architecture designs conical Sun Tower as "giant sundial"
Rows of arches and barrel vaults reference Shanghai's historic alleyways at New Bund Performing Arts Centre, completed by local architecture studio Neri&Hu. More about Neri&Hu captures "spirit of traditional alleyways" at Shanghai arts centre
Architecture studios Schmidt Hammer Lassen and Perkins&Will have completed a multi-functional art centre in Beijing, referencing the shape of a granary that once occupied the site. More about Swooping roofs of Beijing Art Centre evoke the site's granary history
Designer Bunny Christie created an ambiguous, white-tiled structure that could be a swimming pool, the inside of a TV or a jumbo pill as the set for the play People, Places and Things, which tells the story of a recovering addict. More about Bunny Christie's People, Places and Things set symbolises protagonist's "dislocation with reality"
Local architecture studio Mancini Duffy has led the completion of a Times Square skyscraper, which included lifting a historic Broadway theatre and integrating a giant LED screen that opens onto an outdoor stage. More about Mancini Duffy uses "elaborate" hydraulic system to reposition theatre in Times Square skyscraper
The Hillside Theatre by Frank Lloyd Wright in Wisconsin has reopened following an extensive five-year restoration that addressed "significant structural and functional challenges". More about Frank Lloyd Wright Wisconsin theatre reopens after five-year restoration
US studio Ervin Architecture has unveiled the latest phase of an open-air theatre in Bangor, Maine with wood-clad, sawtooth boxes that flank open-air seating. More about Ervin Architecture unveils expansion of Maine's largest building
An architecture team of Nicolás Norero, Leonardo Quinteros and Tomás Villalón has created a community theatre out of glued laminated timber along a lake's shoreline in Panguipulli, Chile. More about Lakeside mass-timber theatre in Chile features "box within a box" construction
Architecture studio Snøhetta has revealed its design for an opera house in the historic town of Diriyah, Saudi Arabia, informed by traditional Najdi architecture. More about Snøhetta references vernacular mud-brick architecture for Saudi Arabian opera house
UK practice Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios has restored four heritage-listed buildings within the Brighton Dome cultural complex, upgrading its performance spaces and uncovering 19th-century structures. More about Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios restores and refurbishes historic Brighton Dome venues
Australian studio ARM Architecture has completed the renovation of the Geelong Arts Centre in Victoria, Australia, adding a theatrical draping facade to its exterior. More about ARM Architecture covers Geelong Arts Centre in swooping concrete curtains
US architecture firm Studio Gang is set to create an open-air theatre and a series of pavilions using mass-timber elements for a Hudson Valley theatre company. More about Studio Gang unveils design for mass-timber theatre in the Hudson Valley
Local architecture studio Lemay aimed to rethink the relationship between "the built and the natural" in its revamp of Théâtre de Verdure, which consists of a stage on an island and a fan-shaped seating area. More about Lemay redesigns open-air theatre in Montreal’s La Fontaine Park
Architecture practice M9 Design Studio has designed a circular memorial complex in India to commemorate actor Vishnuvardhan. More about M9 Design Studio's circular Vishnuvardhan memorial symbolises "unity and continuity"