Claesson Koivisto Rune pays tribute to Donald Judd with first US building
Claesson Koivisto Rune has designed an art gallery in Marfa, Texas, which is the Stockholm studio's first completed project in the USA. More
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Diller Scofidio + Renfro unveils spiralling design for US Olympic Museum
New York architecture studio Diller Scofidio + Renfro has unveiled a preliminary design for a new museum in Colorado Springs dedicated to the legacy of US Olympic and Paralympic athletes (+ slideshow). More
David Chipperfield reveals plans for Royal Academy of Arts overhaul
David Chipperfield has today unveiled his plans to reconfigure and renovate the Royal Academy of Arts in London, which will include building a bridge between two historic buildings. More
Studio Farris adds rusty steel extension to a library in Bruges
This library extension in the centre of Bruges is covered in sheets of pre-rusted Corten steel, deliberately contrasting the white plasterwork of the original building (+ slideshow). More
Ålgård Church by Link Arkitektur features a concave vaulted roof
A dramatically scooped roofline creates a spiky steeple and a triangular entrance for this church in southern Norway by Link Arkitektur (+ slideshow). More
Artists rally to protect Russell Page garden at New York's Frick museum
Prominent names in the contemporary art world are fighting to save the Russell Page-designed viewing garden at New York's Frick Collection museum. More
Adjaye in the frame for Obama library ahead of official announcement
Chicago is expected to be named as the location for the Obama presidential library next week, with David Adjaye tipped to be the project's architect. More
Italy's Museo della Merda is full of shit
The Museum of Shit is housed in an Italian castle and is dedicated to demonstrating "what a useful and living substance crap really is" (+ slideshow). More
Foster + Partners to build hipster village in Dubai
Foster + Partners has revealed its plans for a creative community in Dubai modelled on the fashionable neighbourhoods of New York's Meatpacking District and east London's Shoreditch. More
Log-clad museum by Bornstein Lyckefors honours the legacy of Finnish slash-and-burn farmers
Bornstein Lyckefors Architects pays tribute to an agricultural technique known as slash-and-burn with this forest museum near Torsby, Sweden, clad with wooden logs (+ slideshow). More
Schmidt Hammer Lassen's Malmö Live is a cultural complex designed as "a small city"
Scandinavian firm Schmidt Hammer Lassen has completed a canal-side cultural complex in Malmö, Sweden, featuring a 1,600-seat concert hall, a conference centre and a trio of hotel towers (+ slideshow). More
Community centre by Kengo Kuma features playrooms with undulating floorboards
Children's play areas located beneath the zigzag roof of this community centre by Japanese architect Kengo Kuma have been landscaped to form a hilly indoor terrain that can be clambered over or used as slides (+ slideshow). More
Wise Architecture erects bamboo temple on South Korean coast for victims of a ferry disaster
Each of the 304 ribs of bamboo that make up this Buddhist temple represent a victim killed when a ferry sank off the coast of South Korea (+ slideshow). More
Schmidt Hammer Lassen designs new library for earthquake-damaged Christchurch
Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects has unveiled its design for a new library in Christchurch, New Zealand, to replace the building left wrecked after the 2010 and 2011 earthquakes (+ slideshow). More
Renzo Piano's "prodigiously misassembled" Whitney Museum is a grower, say critics
Renzo Piano's new building for one of New York's most prestigious museums has been described by critics as an "art tanker", "ungainly" and "more clunky than romantic" – but they like it anyway. More
Renzo Piano's new building for the Whitney set to open
Italian architect Renzo Piano has completed his new home for the Whitney Museum of American Art – an asymmetric steel and concrete assembly in Manhattan's Meatpacking District (+ slideshow). More
Safdie Architects designs museum to honour American war heroes
Moshe Safdie's firm has unveiled its design for the National Medal of Honor Museum in South Carolina – a five-pointed structure that will present the history of the USA's most revered soldiers. More
Brunel's first project to become London's latest underground venue
The cavernous shaft created at the entrance to London's Thames Tunnel by eminent 19th-century engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel is set to be transformed into a performance venue. More
BEL Architecten leaves rough surfaces on show in warehouse converted into a cultural centre
Peeling plaster and exposed brickwork reveal the interventions made by BEL Architecten to convert this former Antwerp warehouse into a cultural centre (+ slideshow). More
Snøhetta and SANAA share first place in Budapest museum contest
Norwegian firm Snøhetta and Japanese studio SANAA have been awarded joint first place in a competition to design one of the five new museums planned for Budapest's City Park (+ slideshow). More