UK practice Heatherwick Studio has unveiled designs for AlUla Manara, a textured-stone, stargazing visitor and research centre in Saudi Arabia. More about Heatherwick Studio unveils "space observatory" in AlUla
Milan studio AMDL Circle has unveiled its design of a visitor centre for the Brion tomb in San Vito d'Altivole, Italy, created by Italian architect Carlo Scarpa. More about AMDL Circle designs visitor centre for Carlo Scarpa's Brion tomb
London studio Reed Watts has completed a visitor centre for the medieval Ightham Mote manor house in Kent, creating an exposed timber and hempcrete structure that mimics the Grade I-listed building. More about Reed Watts puts contemporary spin on half-timbering for visitor centre in Kent
Dutch studio MVRDV has unveiled a series of rock-shaped buildings designed to blend into their coastal setting for the Nature Rocks tourist centre in southern Taiwan. More about MVRDV reveals design for rock-like visitor centre on Taiwan's coastline
Six volumes clad in sandstone define this ring-shaped visitor centre dedicated to Maiji Mountain in Tianshui, designed by Chinese studios ZXD Architects and Beijing Institute of Architectural Design. More about Sandstone cloaks ring-shaped Maiji Mountain Visitor Centre in China
Norwegian studio Saunders Architecture has completed a mountaintop visitor centre in northern Maine, USA that celebrates the region's Indigenous peoples. More about Saunders Architecture designs remote visitor centre for Maine monument
Local practice Studio Nine Architects has unveiled a concrete visitor centre and microbrewery in Adelaide for Australian beer company Coopers, with interiors by architecture firm Studio Gram. More about Studio Nine Architects conceals barrel store beneath Coopers Brewery visitor centre
Chinese studio Atelier Xi has completed a visitor centre for Qiaochengbei Park in Shenzhen, using weathering steel and grass roofs to blend two pavilion-like structures into the landscape. More about Atelier Xi designs weathering steel pavilions that "elegantly meander" through Shenzhen park
British studio Foster + Partners has added a vaulted timber hall to Bodegas Faustino winery in Spain, which features an earthy material palette and overhanging roof. More about Foster + Partners expands Spanish winery with "discreet" barrel-vaulted structure
Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto has added a visitors centre to champagne house Maison Ruinart's historic site in Reims, France. More about Stone pavilion by Sou Fujimoto "blends harmoniously" into historic champagne house
Fragments of rammed-earth walls have been incorporated into the concrete exterior of Villagers' Home, a visitor centre in Zhejiang Province by The Architectural Design and Research Institute of Zhejiang University. More about UAD completes concrete visitor centre to "preserve collective culture" of Chinese village
Belgian studios NU Architectuuratelier and Archipelago have created a visitor centre for the Meise Botanic Garden near Brussels that is topped by a shingle-clad vaulted roof. More about Shingles cloak roof of Green Ark pavilion in Belgian botanic garden
Local studio Henkai Architekti has created Pustevny Gateway, a wood-clad visitor centre with a matching bell tower on the Beskydy Mountains ridge in the Czech Republic. More about Henkai Architekti clads mountain visitor centre in wooden shingles
New York City-based studio WXY Architecture has unveiled a wooden, light-filled visitor centre for a nature preserve on the seaside in Rockaway, Queens. More about WXY Architecture creates welcome centre for New York nature preserve
Perforated brick walls surround the Terra Cotta Workshop in Vietnam, which contains a brick kiln and visitor centre by architectural studio Tropical Space. More about Tropical Space wraps kiln and workshop in perforated brick walls
Architecture studio 3XN has unveiled designs for the Danish Centre for Coastal Nature and Sport Fishing, an oval building with a tiled roof that will be located in Assens, Denmark. More about 3XN designs "simple and poetic" nature centre in Danish harbour
Three wooden buildings arranged around a courtyard make up Çatalhöyük Visitor Center, which Istanbul studio Teğet has created on a Neolithic archaeological site in central Turkey. More about Teğet creates timber visitor centre for Turkish archaeological site
A gridded timber frame creates a flexible armature for play equipment and social spaces at the Erlebnis-Hus visitor centre in Sankt Peter-Ording, Germany, which was designed by Holzer Kobler Architekturen. More about Erlebnis-Hus seaside visitor centre wrapped in timber grid to "play in, on, under or beside"
Dutch studio Kaan Architecten has added a visitor centre to the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, with a concrete form that references American memorial architecture. More about Kaan Architecten adds "monumental" visitor centre to second world war cemetery
Local architecture firm In Situ Studio wrapped an art museum visitor centre in Raleigh, North Carolina with darkened steel and cantilevered a roof with an aperture over its patio. More about In Situ Studio cuts "hoop" opening in cantilevered welcome centre roof