Cultural
Snøhetta adds crinkled stainless-steel extension to 1960s museum in Norway
Renovation planned for Gio Ponti’s only North American building
Dezeen’s top 10 public buildings of 2016
Niall McLaughlin Architects adds timber-lined prayer room to historic Dublin church
OMA completes Faena Forum cultural centre in Miami Beach
Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects chosen to design Shanghai’s new city library
Herzog & de Meuron’s Elbphilharmonie concert hall finished with monochrome furniture
CEBRA plans subterranean visitor centre for historic Skamlingsbanken hill
Moon Hoon completes museum for a Pinocchio doll collector near Seoul
Snøhetta’s King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture nears completion
Expandable cultural venue The Shed is being built in New York
Riestra, Arnaud and Werz convert brutalist Mexico City building into OMR Gallery
Board-marked concrete and pleated wood line cultural centre in 17th-century chapel
Snøhetta unveils visitor centre for world-famous Lascaux cave paintings
Jean-Marc Bonfils reinterprets traditional Lebanese architecture with East Village apartment tower
Guggenheim Helsinki scrapped by Finnish government
Coop Himmelb(l)au combines flat and curving forms at huge Shenzhen art complex
Colonnades frame landscaped courtyards at Buddhist retreat in rural England
Critics underwhelmed by “clumsy” new Design Museum
John Pawson converts WW2 bunker into museum of Southeast Asian art in Berlin
London’s new Design Museum by John Pawson and OMA unveiled
Design Museum’s opening exhibition presents reactions to a complex world
Mirrors reflect arched openings and steps inside wooden auditorium by Penda