Cultural
Heatherwick Studio designs volcano-like performing arts centre for China
O-office Architects builds sculptural seaside chapel in China
Trace Architecture Office designs theatre complex in China as a “stage for the city”
Renzo Piano converts Moscow power station into GES-2 House of Culture
Asif Khan, Mariam Kamara, David Adjaye and Theaster Gates to redevelop Liverpool waterfront
Amelia Tavella Architectes adds perforated copper extension to a Corsican convent
Carlo Ratti Associati designs MAE Museum dedicated to carbon fibre
Laplace and Piet Oudolf transform 18th-century naval hospital into Hauser & Wirth art gallery
Cobe reveals design for Gothenburg University Library with facade curved like book pages
MVRDV to transform Eindhoven’s Heuvel shopping centre with glass “Music Mountain”
Colab-19 builds open-sided church in Bogotá for worship during the pandemic
Atelier Van Lieshout designs Brutus neighbourhood for artists in Rotterdam
H2o Architectes converts storage space into colourful studio for Louvre museum
Adjaye Associates completes rose-hued culture hub in Florida
Tim Ronalds Architects converts 19th-century Canterbury malt house into theatre
Herzog & de Meuron’s M+ museum in Hong Kong opens to the public
Kengo Kuma draws on fairytale landscapes for Hans Christian Andersen museum in Denmark
Snøhetta adds reflective underground extension to Ordrupgaard Museum
Álvaro Siza and Carlos Castanheira Architects place concrete art pavilion atop hill in South Korea
Historic Palacio Pereira in Santiago turned into Chile’s Ministry of Culture
Shahed Saleem designs replicas of London mosques for Venice Architecture Biennale
Helsinki calls for proposals to transform Makasiiniranta port into cultural precinct
Mecanoo designs Macau Central Library with light-filtering facade informed by books
