A winning design for a new National Museum of Ecuador building in Quito by Spanish outfit Studio Alberto Campo Baeza and local studio MAODA has been called back by the government, with the studios claiming the move "breaks the transparency and integrity of a public competition". More about National Museum of Ecuador recalls Alberto Campo Baeza design after public backlash
The latest Dezeen Debate newsletter features the transformation of a historic Spanish bank into the Faro Santander museum by David Chipperfield Architects. Subscribe to Dezeen Debate now. More about Dezeen debate features "refuge for the uncreative"
The British and Spanish offices of David Chipperfield Architects have overhauled a bank on the Santander seafront in Spain to create an art museum, revealed here ahead of its official opening. More about David Chipperfield Architects transforms historic Spanish bank into Faro Santander museum
Architecture studio Robert AM Stern Architects has completed an extension to the New York Historical museum in New York informed by the building's original design from the early 1900s. More about RAMSA completes sensitive extension of New York Historical museum
Renders and construction images of the upcoming London Museum in Smithfield, by architecture studios Stanton Williams and Asif Khan with conservation architects Julian Harrap Architects, have been released ahead of its opening later this year. More about Images of relocated London Museum by Stanton Williams and Asif Khan revealed
US studio CookFox Architects has unveiled the Bruce Springsteen Center for American Music, which was informed by the musician's "honesty, bravery and authenticity", at a New Jersey university. More about CookFox Architects completes Bruce Springsteen Center for American Music
A monumental granite-clad tower surrounded by artificial hills has been completed by US studio Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects to honour US president Barack Obama. More about Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects completes "intentionally sculptural" Obama Presidential Center
UK studio Tim Ronalds Architects has converted a series of 17th- and 18th-century buildings in Clerkenwell, London, into the Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration. More about Historic windmill and engine house transformed into Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration
The completed Obama Presidential Center represents a concerning shift in the image ex-presidents want to convey, writes Anthony Paletta. More about "The Obama Presidential Center unquestionably breaks free of tired precedent"
Mexico City-based studios TO and Palma have designed an extension for Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Panamá in Panama, informed by the country's status as a place of exchange. More about TO and Palma design museum as "climatic infrastructure for Panama City"
US architecture studios Gehry Partners, WHY Architecture and landscape studio Olin have been announced as the project leads for renovations to the visitor sequence at the Getty Center in California, USA. More about Gehry Partners, WHY Architecture and Olin to revamp Getty Center tram station in Los Angeles
California studio EYRC Architects has expanded the Cocopah Museum in Arizona with a standalone building constructed from weathering steel and pigmented cast concrete. More about Weathering steel wraps Indigenous museum in Arizona by EYRC
Ribbed glass facades wrap the stepped silhouette of the Jia Art gallery in Shanghai, which was designed by British studio Foster + Partners to appear like a cluster of petals. More about Foster + Partners lines Shanghai art gallery with tubular glass
The Centre Pompidou Hanwha designed by French architecture studio Wilmotte & Associés has been revealed ahead of its opening in Seoul, South Korea, next month. More about Translucent Centre Pompidou Hanwha set to open in Seoul
Shiny panels envelop the spiralling structure of the Hainan Science Museum, which has been completed by architecture studio MAD in Haikou, China. More about MAD clads bulbous science museum with silver-toned polymer panels in China
Continuing our parametricism series we look at the Seoul Robot & AI Museum by Turkish studio Melike Altınışık Architects, which was designed to showcase the technologies used in its construction. More about Parametric design at Seoul Robot & AI Museum is "both shelter and pedagogy"
American studio ZGF Architects has revealed designs for an angular Navy SEAL Museum on the harbourfront of San Diego, USA, meant to evoke the site and contemporary martial qualities. More about ZGF Architects designs stealth-informed Navy SEAL Museum for San Diego
Danish studio Cobe has been chosen for a "precise transformation" that will see an old IKEA warehouse in Älmhult, Sweden, turned into a furniture museum and platform for historic and contemporary design. More about IKEA unveils plans for Museum of Furniture Studies designed by Cobe
Architecture studio Spaceworkers has completed the Vila do Bispo Museum in Portugal, adding a red-concrete volume to a pair of repurposed granaries. More about Spaceworkers transforms Portuguese granaries into museum with red-concrete extension
As Peter Zumthor's highly anticipated Los Angeles County Museum of Art opens, local writer Shane Reiner-Roth examines how the structure reflects the current moment. More about "Zumthor's LACMA building captures the strangeness of our times"