Saudi Arabia’s Diriyah Company has awarded a $490m contract to Al Bawani Company and the Saudi Arabian arm of Egypt’s Hassan Allam Construction to build the Saudi Arabia Museum of…

Five international teams have been shortlisted to design a major new cultural development on Barcelona’s waterfront. The Liceu Mar International Architecture Competition is being held for a cultural hub at…

Construction has begun on the 110,000-sq-m Beijing Art Museum in the capital’s Tongzhou District, designed by Norwegian architect Snøhetta and the Beijing Institute of Architectural Design (BIAD). Beijing Art Museum…

Norwegian architect Snøhetta has won a design competition for a 18,000-sq-m art gallery on the confluence of the Qiantang river and Hangzhou’s central water axis. The meeting of the water…

Saudi Arabia’s Qiddiya Investment Company has awarded a construction contract worth an estimated $1.4bn to local company Nesma & Partners for the development of the Qiddiya City Performing Arts Centre,…

Work has started on the Isola Della Musica, a “floating” opera house on Hanoi’s West Lake, designed by Renzo Piano Building Workshop and Australia’s PTW Architects. The structure will be…

Planning permission has been granted for the Gstaad House in Switzerland, an auction house and gallery designed by UK architect Foster + Partners. The circular timber building’s form is inspired…

Danish designer Adept Architects has won an international competition to turn a former department store into a concert hall in the German city of Braunschweig. The 18,000-sq-m project will put…

Architects Diller Scofidio + Renfro has won the Golden Lion Award at the Venice Biennale for their “Canal Café”, an installation that serves espresso made from the city’s murky canal…

Six finalists – a veritable who’s who of architects – have been shortlisted for a $160m extension to Kansas City, Missouri’s Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. The 61,000-sq-ft expansion will add…

The Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) has been selected to design a 60,000 sq ft extension to a contemporary art gallery in Manhattan. The New Museum was designed by Japanese…

Work has begun on the Centre of Mediterranean Culture, designed by Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) for a site on the Strait of Messina between Sicily and the Italian mainland. The…

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…