Renzo Piano completes stilted art gallery on Santander waterfront
Thousands of shimmering ceramic discs cover the stilted volumes of Renzo Piano's Centro Botín art gallery, which stands on the docks in the Spanish city of Santander. More
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Jan Kempenaers documents Soviet-era war memorials in black and white photo series
Belgian photographer Jan Kempenaers has documented a series of second world war memorials across Europe, from a neglected lattice-wrapped library to the star-shaped entrance to a fortress. More
Frank Gehry's Philadelphia Museum of Art renovation breaks ground
Work has officially started on Frank Gehry's plans to "unclog the arteries" of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, a major renovation that will transform the layout of the historic building. More
RIBA set to open dockside architecture centre in Liverpool this June
RIBA has revealed its new Broadway Malyan-designed architecture centre for northern England, which opens on Liverpool's waterfront this summer. More
Bruner/Cott further expands MASS MoCA art museum in the Berkshires
American architecture firm Bruner/Cott has completed the latest stage in transforming a former textile factory into the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art. More
Schmidt Hammer Lassen pairs frosted glass with weathering steel for Vendsyssel Theatre
Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects designed this theatre complex in Hjørring, Denmark, as a series of Corten steel cubes, but has covered some of the rusty walls behind a layer of frosted glass. More
Huge inclined roof spans cathedral built by John McAslan + Partners on Kenyan tea plantation
John McAslan + Partners and Triad Architects have built a cathedral on the edge of a tea plantation outside Nairobi, Kenya, featuring a tiled and angled roof lined with wooden slats. More
Pleated shutters enclose cylindrical enamelware museum and cultural centre by Wutopia Lab
Perforated-aluminium screens zigzag around the walls of this cylindrical arts museum in Shanghai, which was designed by Wutopia Lab and features a 1970s-style rockery. More
OMA's first project in Dubai is a cultural centre with moving eight-metre-high walls
OMA has used sprayed concrete, polycarbonate and movable walls to transform four warehouses on Dubai's Alserkal Avenue into a cultural centre. More
High Line Nine galleries to surround Zaha Hadid's New York condos
Portions of Zaha Hadid's residential building in New York are set to become art galleries, while more exhibition spaces designed by Studio MDA will also be created underneath the adjacent High Line elevated park. More
OMA completes industrial-style exhibition centre in old Shanghai shipyard
OMA has completed an events centre on a former shipyard in Shanghai, which features a mesh facade and an exposed steel structure intended to reference the hulls of boats once built there. More
RCR Arquitectes forms Soulages Museum from linked weathering-steel boxes
A+Awards: this year's Pritzker Prize-winning studio RCR Arquitectes is behind this steel-clad museum in France, which also earned the Catalan firm an Architizer A+Award. More
IM Pei's Museum of Islamic Art captured in new photographs by Yueqi Jazzy Li
These photographs by Yueqi Jazzy Li show the monumental form of IM Pei's Museum of Islamic Art, eight years after the building completed in Doha, Qatar. More
Rudy Ricciotti sinks Rivesaltes Memorial Museum in furrow at former French military camp
This museum on the site of a former French military and internment camp near Perpignan comprises a 240-metre-long concrete block with large openings puncturing its gently inclined roof. More
Wind tunnel allows monks to fly above Mailītis Architects' amphitheatre in rural China
Monks perform levitation over a huge wind tunnel at this amphitheatre, which was designed by Latvian studio Mailītis Architects for a mountain range in central China. More
Herzog & de Meuron to transform Brooklyn's "batcave" into creative hub
Swiss firm Herzog & de Meuron is set to turn a derelict power station on the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn into a manufacturing centre for designers and makers. More
Conjoined glass and steel tubes form Studio Fuksas' concert and exhibition venue in Tbilisi
These images show the tubular forms of a music theatre and exhibition hall by Studio Fuksas, which is nearing completion in the Georgian capital, Tbilisi. More
Bernardo Bader completes tiny wooden chapel with pointy wooden roof in western Austria
The steeply pitched roof of this shingled chapel by Bernardo Bader Architects provides a dramatic worship space, which narrows towards a small window facing a grassy hillside in western Austria. More
Steyn Studio's chapel frames dramatic views of South African countryside below its sinuous roof
A bright white canopy undulates above the glazed walls of this chapel outside Cape Town, framing views right through it to scenic mountains, vineyards and pomegranate orchards. More
Daylight filters in through the roof and walls of Bangladeshi mosque by Marina Tabassum
A colonnade, a group of light wells and perforated brickwork allow light and air to reach the prayer hall of this mosque in Dhaka, which is one of winners of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture 2016. More