Italy’s Webuild has won a $600m contract from the partially state-owned Diriyah Company for a commercial and cultural development centre in Diriyah, Saudi Arabia. Diriyah is on the northern periphery…

The Indian government has agreed to provide around $4.6m for the construction of 10 healthcare, education, and cultural facilities in Nepal. The so-called “High Impact Community Development Projects”, or HICDPs,…

Work has started on the Centre des Cultures et Spiritualités Ewés (CCSE), designed by Berlin-based Kéré Architecture for the town of Notsé in southern Togo. The CCSE will be formed…

The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habit reports that work has begun on the Bao’an Public Culture and Art Centre in Shenzhen, southeast China. The scheme, which was first…

UK architect Heatherwick Studio has unveiled its design for the Jeddah Central Museum, a cultural project located on the site of a former desalination plant on the banks of the…

The government of Helsinki has announced the winners of a competition to create a “new cultural heart” in the Finnish capital. The plan is to turn more than 8ha of…