Cultural
Peter Zumthor ditches the black for his LACMA expansion plans
Translucent panels create glowing facade for São Paulo gallery by Metro
Renzo Piano completes stilted art gallery on Santander waterfront
Jan Kempenaers documents Soviet-era war memorials in black and white photo series
Bruner/Cott further expands MASS MoCA art museum in the Berkshires
Schmidt Hammer Lassen pairs frosted glass with weathering steel for Vendsyssel Theatre
OMA’s first project in Dubai is a cultural centre with moving eight-metre-high walls
High Line Nine galleries to surround Zaha Hadid’s New York condos
IM Pei’s Museum of Islamic Art captured in new photographs by Yueqi Jazzy Li
Rudy Ricciotti sinks Rivesaltes Memorial Museum in furrow at former French military camp
Conjoined glass and steel tubes form Studio Fuksas’ concert and exhibition venue in Tbilisi
Bernardo Bader completes tiny wooden chapel with pointy wooden roof in western Austria
Kengo Kuma’s major expansion of Portland Japanese Garden opens
New photographs reveal Snøhetta’s Lascaux IV Caves Museum in southern France
Frank Gehry’s Philadelphia Museum of Art renovation breaks ground
RIBA set to open dockside architecture centre in Liverpool this June
Huge inclined roof spans cathedral built by John McAslan + Partners on Kenyan tea plantation
Pleated shutters enclose cylindrical enamelware museum and cultural centre by Wutopia Lab
OMA completes industrial-style exhibition centre in old Shanghai shipyard
RCR Arquitectes forms Soulages Museum from linked weathering-steel boxes
Wind tunnel allows monks to fly above Mailītis Architects’ amphitheatre in rural China
Herzog & de Meuron to transform Brooklyn’s “batcave” into creative hub
Steyn Studio’s chapel frames dramatic views of South African countryside below its sinuous roof
