Welcome centre for Quebec heritage site rises from the landscape
A stone-filled gabion wall runs along one side of this green-roofed visitors pavilion by architect Anne Carrier, which emerges from a slope at a heritage site in Canada. More
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Dinosaur fossil park in Texas gains rust-coloured visitor centre by Lake Flato
American firm Lake Flato used tough materials like weathering steel to create an off-grid educational facility for Big Bend National Park, known for its dinosaur skeletons. More
Tramway Gas Station by Frey and Chambers is a modernist gatehouse for Palm Springs
Palm Springs Modernism Week kicks off today, and we're taking a closer look at some of the city's best mid-century buildings to coincide with the event. First up is the Tramway Gas Station, designed by architects Albert Frey and Robson Chambers to mark the entrance into the modernist mecca. More
Staggered glass walls front visitor centre at Louisiana plantation house
New Orleans firm Trahan Architects has completed a visitor centre for an 18th-century plantation in Louisiana, using translucent glazing to blur views of occupants from the outside "like an impressionist painting". More
COBE designs harbourside brewery for Stavenger that invites visitors to eat and swim
Danish firm COBE has unveiled plans for a craft brewery in Stavanger, Norway, featuring a harbour bath, a street-food market and a huge rooftop vegetable garden – all framed by a network of wooden arches. More
Foster + Partners' Apple Park Visitor Center opens to the public
The visitor centre designed by Foster + Partners as part of Apple's new California headquarters has welcomed its first guests. More
BIG completes Lego visitor centre shaped like a stack of building blocks
Bjarke Ingels' firm BIG has unveiled its new visitor centre for toy company Lego – a stack of huge building blocks, featuring brightly coloured patios that are home to a submarine, a shark and a camel. More
Tourist centre perches above limestone canyon in Guizhou Province
This tourist centre by Chinese studios 3andwich Design and He Wei Studio stands on a platform facing out over a deep limestone canyon in Anlong County in China's Guizhou Province. More
Chicago Architecture Foundation plans move to Mies van der Rohe-designed tower
The Chicago Architecture Center will take over a space inside a riverfront building by modernist architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, which will be designed by US firm Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill and is set to open summer 2018. More
Office III builds simple open-air welcome centre on Governors Island
US studio Office III has constructed a visitors' centre for Governors Island in New York City using marine-grade plywood and cedar decking. More
Studio Maks and Junya Ishigami create three-pronged visitor centre for Dutch park
Three intersecting glass corridors sweep outwards from a sunken, triangular-shaped visitors centre designed by Studio Maks and Junya Ishigami + Associates for Park Vijversburg in the Netherlands. More
Reiulf Ramstad's kiln-inspired learning centre will celebrate Denmark's farming culture
Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter has unveiled plans for a new agricultural and baking education centre in Denmark's Jutland region, which will feature teaching spaces skylit by a pair of kiln-shaped forms. More
Henry Moore Foundation celebrates 40th anniversary with renovation of the artist's former home
Hugh Broughton Architects has added a new visitors centre and an oxidised-steel extension to the Henry Moore Studios and Garden in Hertfordshire – the site of the artist's former home. More
New photographs reveal Snøhetta's Lascaux IV Caves Museum in southern France
These photographs capture the jagged roofline of the museum that Snøhetta has designed at the Lascaux Caves in France, to frame a huge replica of some of the world's most famous prehistoric cave paintings. More
Dorte Mandrup adds thatched wing to Wadden Sea visitor centre in Denmark
Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter paired thatch with blackened wood for this extension to a visitor's centre on the Wadden Sea mud flats in Denmark. More
Dark cedar boards shroud Quebec visitors centre by Anne Carrier
Quebec architecture firm Anne Carrier Architecture has completed a visitors centre in the Mont Orford National Park, built using a wooden structure that nestles into the landscape. More
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
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
Timelapse movie captures visitor centre created by Reiulf Ramstad in the Norwegian mountains
This movie by videographer Alejandro Villanueva tours the Reiulf Ramstad-designed Trollstigen Visitor Centre in rural Norway, revealing how its network of pathways zigzag across a landscape of rugged mountains and deep fjords. More
Elevated walkway and visitor centre added to 12th-century abbey ruins by Binario Architectes
Binario Architectes has used Corten steel, concrete and wood to create a series of new additions to the Villers Abbey in Belgium, including a visitor centre and an elevated pathway (+ slideshow). More