The Tselinny Center of Contemporary Culture will open at a new permanent home in the 1964 Tselinny cinema, formerly the largest Soviet cinema in Central Asia, in a project overseen…

Danish architect Bjarke Ingels Group has won a competition to design an opera and ballet theatre in Pristina, the capital of Kosovo. The 42,395 sq m timber structure will be…

Beijing-based Mad Architects has announced that its design for the Fenix Museum of Migration in Rotterdam will shortly open to the public. Commissioned by the Droom en Daad (Dreams Come…

A 1.2ha extension of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art has been designed by Mexican architect Frida Escobedo to house part of the museum’s 20th and 21st-century collection. The wing…

UK firm Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) has been selected to design a cultural centre for the international productions of opera, dance and drama in Zhejiang, about 30km south of Shanghai.…

Work has been completed on an expansion designed by New York architect Studio Gang for the California College of the Arts in San Francisco. The concrete ground-floor level houses workshops…

The Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) has been selected by the government of Western Australia to work with local architect WITH on the refurbishment of the Perth Concert Hall. The…

The 1918-19 Greater Poland Uprising Museum in Poznan, designed by local architect WXCA, has broken ground. The museum is intended to provide “a space for shared memory”, made up of…

UK firm Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) has unveiled the design for the Alisher Navoi International Scientific Research Centre in the Uzbek capital of Tashkent. The 23,000 sq m development will…

The Crow Museum of Asian Art, designed for the University of Texas by American architect Morphosis, has opened in Dallas. The museum will exhibit art from countries such as China,…

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) has been chosen to design 17 residential buildings for the New Jersey Performing Arts Centre (NJPAC), which the practice designed in the late nineties. The…

The Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha, Nebraska reopens next month with the new, 42,000-sq-ft addition – the Rhonda & Howard Hawks Pavilion – designed by Norwegian architect Snøhetta with local…

Construction on the Suzhou Museum of Contemporary Art, designed by ARTS Group, Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) and Front Inc. has topped out in Jiangsu province, close to Shanghai. The 60,000-sq-m…

Spanish contractor Acciona has won contracts for New York’s new Hip Hop Museum in the Bronx and the renovation of the Museum of Immigration on Ellis Island. At the Hip…

A temporary stadium for 80,000 people will be built in Munich for 10 concerts by British singer Adele next month, the StadiumDB website reports.  She is performing the concerts throughout…

The Simone-Veil Bridge, a 549m-long structure designed by Dutch firm Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) has opened to the public. The structure spans the Garonne between the Bordeaux municipalities of…

UK architects Caruso St John have won a competition for the renovation of Germany’s Kunsthalle Bielefeld, the only European museum designed by modernist architect Philip Johnson, completed in 1968. Work…

A team made up of Denmark’s 3XN and two South Korean designers, Siaplan and MDA, has won a competition for the Chungnam Art Centre in Chungcheongnam-do, South Korea. The curved…