Foster + Partners’ extension to the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum in Spain introduces a dramatic elevated structure that spans the existing buildings, creating new exhibition spaces and a public atrium while bringing together more than 80 years of architectural history.
Carmody Groarke, ATAMA and RE-ST have skilfully reworked Design Museum Gent, adding a five-storey wing that completes its historic courtyard and opens the institution more directly to the city.
shedkm’s 14-storey office building at Brent Cross Town combines a precast concrete frame with cross-laminated timber floors to reduce embodied carbon while providing flexible workspace alongside the new Brent Cross West station.
CHYBÍK + KRIŠTOF’s new sports and culture venue in Jihlava combines a 5,650-seat arena with new public spaces, landscape and supporting facilities designed to extend the life of the Czech city centre.
De Matos Ryan has reworked Carlisle’s Tullie Museum, creating a new entrance, gallery, community spaces and shop aimed at strengthening the building’s relationship with the city.
Axo Architects has designed a Benedictine monastery on the edge of Pollacappul Lough in Connemara, County Galway – the first female monastery to be built in Ireland for over 400 years. Cormac Murray enjoys the understated confidence of a contemplative building informed by a nuanced response to context and a long-standing relationship between architect and client.
Rising from the landscape beside Yanzi Lake, Shenzhen Natural History Museum by 3XN, B+H Architects and Zhubo Design establishes a new cultural landmark for South China while blurring the boundaries between museum, landscape and public space.
Designed by Lahdelma & Mahlamäki Architects, the Lost Shtetl Museum tells the story of Jewish life in Šeduva before the Holocaust. In the summer of 1941, 664 of the town’s Jewish residents were murdered, a fate repeated across more than 200 Lithuanian shtetls. Julian de Metz examines the building’s relationship to its highly charged physical and cultural context, and asks to what extent architecture can – or should – seek to shape collective memory and conscience.
Designed by dichter Architekturgesellschaft, Museum Friedland Phase 2 extends one of Germany’s most significant migration museums with a new visitor and documentation centre that links the historic railway station to the active transit camp beyond.
DSDHA has reworked Sheep Field Barn at Henry Moore Studios & Gardens at the Hertfordshire hamlet of Perry Green, doubling its footprint and setting a new benchmark for low carbon gallery design.
Stanton Williams has completed the last piece of the puzzle in a decade-long project to turn London's Shell Tower site into a mixed-use neighbourhood that reconnects Waterloo Station with the River Thames.
An extraordinary museum and community centre in Romania’s Danube Delta locks into the sustainable networks of one of Europe’s last great wildernesses to support the culture and the future of the Lipovan people
