Foster + Partners designs tech-filled library for Sharjah
The House of Wisdom, a library and cultural centre designed by Foster + Partners for Sharjah, will feature a cantilevered roof and a book-printing machine. More
The House of Wisdom, a library and cultural centre designed by Foster + Partners for Sharjah, will feature a cantilevered roof and a book-printing machine. More
New York firm Buro Koray Duman has revealed plans for a major update to the Noguchi Museum in Long Island City, which will see the studio and home of American-Japanese sculptor Isamu Noguchi opened up to the public for the first time. More
Shoraku-Ji is a Buddhist temple next to a cemetery in northeast Tokyo by Toru Kashihara Architects with a stepped concrete design that aims to subvert traditional temple architecture. More
A coloured concrete canopy supported by large columns forms this gateway designed by Swiss architect Valerio Olgiati for the Pearling Path, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Bahrain. More
Peter Zumthor's latest plans for Los Angeles County Museum of Art have been approved at a planning meeting, with movie star Brad Pitt speaking up for the Swiss architect. More
German architect Heike Hanada has completed a minimalist concrete museum to celebrate the Bauhaus in Weimar, where the design school was founded 100 years ago. More
Five aviation fuel containers on the former Longhua airport in Shanghai have been transformed into art and culture park Tank Shanghai, by local studio Open Architecture. More
New York firms Diller Scofidio + Renfro and Rockwell Group have completed The Shed, a cultural centre in Manhattan's Hudson Yards, featuring a retractable roof that can be moved to form a performance area. More
Snøhetta has revealed visuals for a major new opera house in Shanghai, featuring a spiralling stepped roof that will connect the upper levels of the building with a riverside plaza. More
Architecture that embodies a country's values can help improve communication between feuding nations, says Jean Nouvel as the National Museum of Qatar opens in Doha. More
New photos of British architect David Adjaye's contemporary art centre in San Antonio, Texas, show that construction on the angular crimson building has completed. More
Frida Escobedo describes her first public project La Tallera, an art gallery which was once the studio of the late muralist David Alfaros Siqueiros, in this exclusive video interview with Dezeen. More
A series of colliding discs form the external shell and define the internal programme of Atelier Jean Nouvel's National Museum of Qatar, which is based on a mineral formation called the "desert rose". More
Carmody Groarke has completed the Windermere Jetty museum in England's Lake District, which houses a collection of boats in a lake-side cluster of copper-clad buildings. More
Daniel Libeskind's architecture firm has revealed plans for a museum in Iquique, Chile, featuring jagged, earthy concrete walls that are intended to evoke "the stark landscape of the Atacama Desert". More
6a Architects has extended the MK Gallery in Milton Keynes with a rectangular steel box that pays homage to the English town's "iconic" masterplan. More
Pool Leber Architekten and Bleckmann Krys Architekten have combined 14th and 16th century structures, with modern concrete and brick volumes to create the Kult museum. More
Bricks from demolished local buildings were used to construct this museum in Mouscron, Belgium, by architecture studio V+. More
Architecture firm Ortner & Ortner Baukunst has created a new facility for the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin, by renovating a 1950s workshop building and adding a fly tower made from fibreglass and wood. More
A funicular station on a mountain in Italy has been converted into a museum with an adjoining restaurant that balances on stilts by Gerhard Mahlknecht of EM2. More