Foster + Partners designs Datong Art Museum

A series of corten steel-clad pyramidal forms defines this sunken museum in northeastern China

Women of architecture celebrated in MAXXI exhibition

Dorte Mandrup, Liz Diller and Mariam Kamara among those featured in new exhibition in Rome

In Canada, a Passive House community centre focused on social inclusivity

The Clayton Community Centre involved the local community and boasts ultra-low energy use

New Geneva theatre celebrates the art of production

Designed by FRES Architectes, the Comédie de Genève makes visible the back-of-house production spaces – and has a solar power plant on the roof

Bratislava heating plant turned into co-working and cultural centre

In the heart of Zaha Hadid Architects' large-scale development, Studio Perspektiv has converted a 20th-century industrial monument

Foster + Partners creates Roman antiquities museum in south of France

Located in historic Narbonne, the Narbo Via museum also acts as an archeological research centre

Old Brooklyn metal foundry becomes theatre incubator

The low-carbon project from CO Adaptive Architecture celebrates the original architecture and harnesses CLT additions

In Nice, a new neighbourhood covered in plants emerges

On the site of an old football stadium, the Le Ray neighbourhood includes homes, public spaces, a rooftop farm – and a dojo

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