Architecture to look forward to in 2022
From Taipei to Oslo, we round up the most interesting architectural projects due to complete next year
The best buildings of 2021
From homes made of 3D-printed raw earth to a community library in Mexico, we round up the projects championing sustainability, inclusivity and innovation
Innovative ‘House for Artists’ opens in east London
In the new building in Barking, creative tenants pay part of their rent with time gifted to the community
High-rise greenhouses open in Paris suburbs
The Cité Maraîchère project in Romainville hosts and promotes sustainable urban agriculture
Learning centre opens at King’s Cross nature reserve
The Camley Street Natural Park learning centre, designed by Erect Architecture, promotes engagement with nature in the middle of the city
Rock-like Chapel of Sound designed in Chinese valley
OPEN Architecture’s rural, open-air concert hall appears as if emerging from the landscape
Printmaking Workshop designed for TU Dublin
The industrial studio by Irish practice Scullion Architects is robust and flexible – while publicly celebrating the work of staff and students
Mecanoo transforms Mies van der Rohe’s MLK Library
The Washington DC library honouring the civil rights leader has been revitalised with new spaces, a public roof garden and a social focus
Mario Cucinella designs Tuscan cultural centre with ‘suspended plaza’
Palazzo Senza Tempo, in the Italian hilltop town of Peccioli, combines old and new structures with a cantilevered public platform
London’s Courtauld Gallery reopens after redevelopment
The transformation project by Witherford Watson Mann has revitalised and opened up the neoclassical building within Somerset House
Circus-inspired wooden theatre built in historic Béziers
K architectures has designed the striking Domaine de Bayssan Theatre complex in one of France's oldest cities
6a architects designs community centre in London
The light, open building for Holborn Community Association transformed a dark basement and includes an artistic collaboration with Caragh Thuring
Brussels railway training academy features train tracks
The aluminium-clad Infrabel Academy by Atelier Kempe Thill references industrial shed architecture – and connects to an adjacent train station
Stateless Heritage exhibition explores refugee experience
The show by DAAR (Decolonize Architecture Art Research) in London proposes a Palestinian refugee camp as a UNESCO World Heritage Site
Warehouse in Santander transformed into art gallery
Two architecture practices converted the damaged 20th-century structure into a new cultural space for the Spanish city, with minimal interventions
COP26 virtual pavilion champions 17 sustainable architecture projects
Build Better Now shows how architecture can tackle and mitigate climate change
Arts centre in Somerset developed by and for local community
Resembling a mix of beach huts and containers, the East Quay Arts Centre is designed by Invisible Studio and Ellis Williams for local social enterprise Onion Collective
Hélène Binet’s architectural photography celebrated in Royal Academy show
Light Lines showcases the 'moods' of architecture that the French-Swiss photographer captures
Estudio Herreros-designed Munch museum opens in Oslo
The aluminium-wrapped vertical structure on the Norwegian capital's waterfront provides expansive spaces for the artist's work
‘Modernist Glade’ created in Milton Keynes by Hayatsu Architects and Tue Greenfort
The public space project celebrates mycelium and references the city's modernist origins
OMA transforms historic Berlin department store
The first phase of the practice’s redesign of Kaufhaus des Westens has opened to the public
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