Álvaro Siza's Alhambra project scrapped
Álvaro Siza's plans for a new entrance and visitor centre at the historic Granada palace the Alhambra have been rejected. More
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Copper covers walls and roof of Finnish chapel by OOPEAA
Shimmering, multi-tonal copper clads the entire exterior of this chapel in Finland, designed by architecture firm OOPEAA. More
MX_SI and Mestres Wåge Arquitectes to transform 1930s silo into art gallery in Norway
Barcelona-based studios MX_SI and Mestres Wåge Arquitectes have won a competition to covert a 1930s silo into an art museum and cultural centre in Norway. More
Toshiko Mori and Hirsch Corti turn label-making factory into Peter Freeman Gallery
A+Awards: a former industrial space in Manhattan's SoHo has been renovated to create a new space for a contemporary art gallery, which received an Architizer A+Award last year. More
Snøhetta adds crinkled stainless-steel extension to 1960s museum in Norway
Snøhetta has extended the Lillehammer Art Museum and Cinema in Norway with a cantilevering cube covered in a layer of crinkled and polished stainless steel. More
Renovation planned for Gio Ponti's only North American building
Machado Silvetti Architects and Fentress Architects have been hired to revitalise Denver Art Museum, the only North American building by famed Italian architect Gio Ponti. More
Board-marked concrete and pleated wood line cultural centre in 17th-century chapel
Architects Héctor Fernández Elorza and Manuel Fernández Ramírez have transformed a dilapidated chapel in Spain into a cultural centre by inserting a shell made of board-marked concrete. More
Snøhetta unveils visitor centre for world-famous Lascaux cave paintings
A major new building by architecture firm Snøhetta has opened in the south of France, framing a huge replica of one of the world's most important examples of prehistoric cave art. More
Dezeen's top 10 public buildings of 2016
Continuing our review of 2016, architecture editor Jessica Mairs picks out 10 of the best public buildings of 2016, including an art gallery inside a second-world-war bunker, a dinosaur egg museum and three projects from one particularly prolific studio. More
Niall McLaughlin Architects adds timber-lined prayer room to historic Dublin church
Niall McLaughlin Architects has refurbished a prayer room at a priory in Dublin, placing walls and furniture made from solid ash wood inside the existing space. More
Jean-Marc Bonfils reinterprets traditional Lebanese architecture with East Village apartment tower
This apartment block and art gallery in Beirut combines traditional timber and stone cladding with a vertical garden and a bright-red balcony that cantilevers from one of its facades. More
Guggenheim Helsinki scrapped by Finnish government
Controversial plans for a new outpost of the Guggenheim museum in Helsinki have been rejected by city councillors following a five-hour debate. More
OMA completes Faena Forum cultural centre in Miami Beach
OMA has finished its perforated Faena Forum art and performance centre in Miami Beach, the heart of a new ocean-side cultural district springing up in the US city. More
Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects chosen to design Shanghai's new city library
Danish firm Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects has revealed its competition-winning designs for a new library in Shanghai featuring bands of glazing and wood-lined reading rooms. More
Coop Himmelb(l)au combines flat and curving forms at huge Shenzhen art complex
Triangular facets of stone and shimmering glass provide the irregular form of Coop Himmelb(l)au's Museum of Contemporary Art and Planning Exhibition, which is now complete in Shenzhen. More
Colonnades frame landscaped courtyards at Buddhist retreat in rural England
This Buddhist retreat by Walters & Cohen Architects features a cluster of pitched-roof structures arranged around tranquil courtyards in the English countryside. More
Herzog & de Meuron's Elbphilharmonie concert hall finished with monochrome furniture
When furnishing Herzog & de Meuron's £163-million Elbphilharmonie concert hall in Hamburg, local architect Daniel Schöning and design firm Studio Besau-Marguerre opted for a monochrome colour palette to keep the focus on the surrounding architecture. More
CEBRA plans subterranean visitor centre for historic Skamlingsbanken hill
Danish architecture studio CEBRA has been appointed to create an underground visitor centre for a hill that has hosted some of the most important speeches in Denmark's history. More
Critics underwhelmed by "clumsy" new Design Museum
The Design Museum's new home inside the former Commonwealth Institute in London is an oak-heavy, hotel-like interior that is impressive, but could have been so much more exhilarating, according to critics. More
John Pawson converts WW2 bunker into museum of Southeast Asian art in Berlin
Architectural designer John Pawson has transformed a second-world-war telecommunication bunker into an art and furniture museum in Berlin's Kreuzberg neighbourhood. More