AAU Anastas adds stone vaulted gift shop to Crusaders monastery in Jerusalem
Bethlehem-based studio AAU Anastas has designed a flat stone-vaulted extension to a 12th century monastery built by the Crusaders in Jerusalem, to house a gift shop. More
Bethlehem-based studio AAU Anastas has designed a flat stone-vaulted extension to a 12th century monastery built by the Crusaders in Jerusalem, to house a gift shop. More
Assemble's approach to transforming a public bathhouse into an art centre is refreshing, says Owen Hatherley, but the results feels a little too much like a celebration of poverty. More
Concrete boxes housing galleries are laid out around a tranquil pond at this extended museum in Maryland, which architecture firm Thomas Phifer and Partners embedded in the rolling landscape. More
Stanton Williams has redesigned the entrances, reconfigured the ground-floor lobby and added a 400-seat auditorium, in a major rejuvenation of London's Royal Opera House. More
In this exclusive video interview, Japanese architect Kengo Kuma reflects on the relationship between his V&A Dundee museum building and the sea. More
This concert hall in Mérida, Mexico, comprises a building faced in metal ribs that encloses a central plaza for public performances. More
This slideshow of photographs offers a detailed look around the Kengo Kuma-designed V&A Dundee, Scotland's first design museum, which opens this week. More
French architecture firm Titan has built a sand-coloured concrete pavilion to welcome visitors to the former home of French prime minister Georges Clemenceau, in western France. More
Roberto Conte and Stefano Perego have captured the architecture and monuments of post-war Soviet Georgia in their latest photography collection. More
Irish architect Kieran Donnellan and a team of students have built a non-denominational chapel on a clifftop near the 12th-century Byblos Castle in Lebanon. More
Helsinki's new art museum Amos Rex proves that importing an international brand, like the Guggenheim, isn't the only way to create a blockbuster tourist attraction, argues Dezeen deputy editor Tom Ravenscroft. More
David Chipperfield Architects has submitted its planning application for the IMPACT Centre, the proposed new home for the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, including a series of new visuals. More
JKMM Architects designed a series of domed subterranean galleries for the soon-to-open Amos Rex museum in Helsinki, which bubble up through the ground to create a playful outdoor landscape. More
Office Winhov and Gottlieb Paludan Architects designed a decorative relief pattern that looks like bookshelves for the facade of this archive building in Delft, the Netherlands. More
Cantilevered metal roofs shade the glazed walls of this library designed by MLA+, which is connected by a treetop walkway to Shenzhen's Xiangmi Park. More
São Paulo firm Andrade Morettin Arquitetos has encased exhibition spaces at this cultural centre in the city in a huge red wooden box, which can be glimpsed through the building's translucent glass walls. More
Despite changing needs and tastes, Venturi Scott Brown's threatened extension to the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego warrants preservation simply because their names are attached to it, says Mimi Zeiger. More
Over 70 architects, critics and preservationists have signed a petition to prevent the "tremendous mistake" of demolishing parts of Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown's Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, to make way for an expansion by Selldorf Architects. More
This raised wooden structure, designed by Cerejeira Fontes Architects, creates a secluded inner chapel inside an old church in Braga, Portugal. More
Fuses Viader Arquitectes has transformed a 19th-century fortress near the Spanish city of Girona into a museum and hotel complex featuring concrete, glass and weathered-steel. More