Primary colours fill converted brick structure in San Miguel de Allende
Architecture studios Oficina de Diseño Colaborativo and Atelier TBD have created a cultural space that preserves the "self-built essence" of San Miguel de Allende. More
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Lima cultural facility features pink walls and traditional construction techniques
Peruvian architects Roman Bauer Arquitectos and ESArquitectura teamed up to design a cultural institution in Lima that includes a renovation and a new building with vernacular methods and pink accents. More
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Stefano Boeri Architetti reveals masterplan for "one of the most sacred sites of Buddhism"
Italian studio Stefano Boeri Architetti has unveiled its masterplan for a meditation centre and landscaped gardens at the Ramagrama stupa, a Buddhist pilgrimage site in Nepal. More
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ARM Architecture covers Geelong Arts Centre in swooping concrete curtains
Australian studio ARM Architecture has completed the renovation of the Geelong Arts Centre in Victoria, Australia, adding a theatrical draping facade to its exterior. More
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Zaha Hadid Architects references migratory birds for Zhuhai art centre
Four angular wings with steel canopies form Zhuhai Jinwan Civic Art Centre, which British studio Zaha Hadid Architects has completed on an artificial lake in China. More
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Studio Gang unveils design for mass-timber theatre in the Hudson Valley
US architecture firm Studio Gang is set to create an open-air theatre and a series of pavilions using mass-timber elements for a Hudson Valley theatre company. More
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Tadao Ando designs concrete arts centre for Sharjah to be "round like the Earth"
Japanese architect Tadao Ando has unveiled the design for Il Teatro at Aljada, a cylindrical performing arts centre in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, that will overlook a sunken water feature. More
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Pyramid of Tirana officially reopens as "monument for the people"
Dutch architecture studio MVRDV has added a stepped roof and bright-coloured boxes to a former museum dedicated to Albanian dictator Enver Hoxha in the centre of Tirana, Albania. More
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OMA unveils Manchester's flexible cultural event space Aviva Studios
Dutch studio OMA has completed its first major public building in the UK, Aviva Studios, designed to provide flexible event space for Manchester-based arts and music company Factory International. More
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Wright and Wright completes decade-long redevelopment of University of Oxford college
London studio Wright and Wright has completed the final phase of its redevelopment of St John's College at the University of Oxford, restoring two libraries and a 17th-century courtyard. More
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Donald Insall Associates renovates "deconstructed" Hardwick Old Hall ruin
Architecture studio Donald Insall Associates has completed the renovation of the 16th-century Hardwick Old Hall designed by Robert Smythson, in Derbyshire, UK. More
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AAU Anastas designs The Wonder Cabinet in Bethlehem as hub for makers and creatives
Palestinian architects AAU Anastas have built a production facility and cultural hub in Bethlehem, which brings together the many strands of their cross-disciplinary practice and includes a radio station and restaurant. More
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Urbanus transforms former Chinese brewery into cultural centre
The concrete-framed "industrial relic" of the former Kingway Brewery in Shenzhen, China, has been transformed into a cultural centre by architecture firm Urbanus. More
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LMN Architects creates six-storey convention centre in downtown Seattle
Local studio LMN Architects has completed a convention centre in downtown Seattle with a six-storey central atrium and large wooden staircase. More
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Forma is a nomadic design gallery popping up around Berlin
Contemporary German furniture designs are displayed alongside vintage pieces at this travelling gallery that multidisciplinary designer Vanessa Heepen has launched in Berlin. More
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Caples Jefferson Architects unveils curved Louis Armstrong Center in Queens
Local studio Caples Jefferson Architects has created an extension for the Louis Armstrong House Museum complete with a curved facade and a green roof in Corona, Queens. More
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Crystalline volume added to Audubon Aquarium and Insectarium in New Orleans
New glazing and an angular lobby crossed by a catwalk are among the enhancements that US architecture studios Eskew Dumez Ripple and CambridgeSeven have made to a 1990s nature museum in Louisiana. More
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Democracy and Maya architecture inform Miller Hull's US embassy in Guatemala City
Design studio The Miller Hull Partnership has drawn upon Maya architecture and the "openness and optimism" of American democracy for the US embassy in Guatemala's capital. More
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Mixtura wraps multi-building Brazilian convent in wooden brise soleil
Italian studio Mixtura has created a convent in Salvador de Bahia, Brazil with multiple buildings arranged around open-air cloisters wrapped in a wooden brise soleil. More
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Dorte Mandrup reveals plans for Inuit Heritage Centre in Canada
Danish architecture studio Dorte Mandrup has revealed plans for the Nunavut Inuit Heritage Centre in Canada, a sweeping, partly underground structure with a form based on patterns found in the snow. More
