Public and leisure
Wavy steel canopy shelters rooftop bar on historic stables in Camden
BLUE creates “symbiotic” street furniture that relies on urban structures
Miles Pennington creates Tokyo toilet to be “centre of the local community”
Giant canopy shelters Sydney Plaza by Adjaye Associates and Daniel Boyd
Snøhetta creates cavernous timber climbing centre in Norway
Dezeen Agenda features plans to demolish Kenzo Tange’s modernist gymnasium in Japan
Kenzo Tange’s modernist gymnasium set to be demolished
Kuehn Malvezzi designs Montreal Insectarium to subvert “museological norms and expectations”
Urlo Studio completes stacked pigmented-concrete complex in Quito
Hacker overhauls “fortress-like” brutalist library in Oregon
Group of Architects insets mono-pitched theatre into bamboo forest in China
Austin’s Pease Park revitalized to “integrate fun with nature”
SIRS Architects converts London brewery into gallery for Gilbert & George
Sara Kulturhus Centre “unleashed a world of previously unimagined design possibilities”
New York designers create garden structure from repurposed architectural mockup
Atak Architekti creates Liberec library by restoring and extending a former rectory
Tapering tower distinguishes South Tyrolean sports centre by MoDus Architects
Erre Q Erre replaces parking lot with stone pavilion in Mexico City
Studioninedots converts Utrecht railway warehouse into community hub
Undulating concrete landscape conceals Chinese cultural centre by Change Architects
MVRDV reveals plans for Wuhan Library with “stepped terraces of books”
Oversized steel roof tops Sydney restaurant by Sam Crawford Architects
Bruno Gaudin Architectes completes 15-year transformation of National Library of France