Toronto Centre for the Arts Building

Toronto Centre for the Arts Building

Design: Diamond Schmitt Architects. The Main Stage Reconfiguration Project transforms the existing auditorium into two venues – the 580-seat proscenium Lyric Theatre with a new stage, and a 300-seat flexible ‘black box’.

MCH Messecenter in Herning

MCH Messecenter

Architects: Urban Agency and Aarhus Arkitekterne

Although the MCH Messecenter in Herning is already the biggest exhibition in Denmark, that doesn’t hinder the plans for its future development from being very ambitious.

Centro Botin in Santander Art Centre: Renzo Piano

Centro Botin

Centro Botín by architects Renzo Piano – a permanent home for the art, cultural and educational programmes of Fundación Botín, Spain’s most important private cultural foundation, will open in Santander on Friday 23 June,.

The Factory Manchester Arts Building

The Factory Manchester Arts Building design

Design: OMA, architects. £110m flagship cultural building wins Planning Permission: the city’s cutting-edge arts venue aims to take a radically new approach to cultural production and performance.

Arquipelago Contemporary Arts Centre Azores

Arquipelago Contemporary Arts Centre

Design: Menos é Mais, Arquitectos Associados / João Mendes Ribeiro Arquitecto. The building expertly combines restoration, reconstruction and new build, drawing on the history of this 1890s sweet potato distillery building and its distinctive black Basalt exterior.

Grace Farms New Canaan, Connecticut

Grace Farms, the River building

Grace Farms, a new center for nature, arts, community, justice and faith, wins 2014/2015 MCHAP. The 80-acre gift of open space includes an 83,000-sqft multi-use building and covered walkways called the River, which the Pritzker Prize-winning architecture studio SANAA designed to blend almost transparently into the surrounding woodlands, wetlands and meadows.

Addiriyah Contemporary Art Center, KSA

Addiriyah Contemporary Art Center Building

Design: Schiattarella Associati, Architects. Two international awards for Addiriyah Contemporary Art Center project in Saudi Arabia: ‘Concept Winner’ at this year’s ICONIC AWARDS and Honorable Mention at the American Architecture Prize 2016.

Wallis Annenberg Arts Center, Beverly Hills

Wallis Annenberg Center

Rehabilitation and redevelopment of the former Beverly Hills Post Office and the creation of the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts (“the Wallis”) design by Studio Pali Fekete architects – prize from The California Preservation Design Awards.

An Lanntair, Stornoway Building: Lewis Arts Centre

An Lanntair, Stornoway Building: Lewis Arts Centre

An Lanntair and The Western Isles Architects Group have been celebrating architecture in all its forms in the Outer Hebrides. From modern architecture to 17th Century ruins, the project asked people to take a look at the architecture that surrounds them.

Hutong Children’s Library and Art Centre

Hutong Children's Library and Art Centre

Architect: ZAO / standardarchitecture / Zhang Ke. A small-scale architecture project that enriches bonds amongst communities and revives Hutong life. The courtyard is about 300-400 years old and once housed a temple building.

Cais das Artes, Paulo Mendes da Rocha Brazil

Cais das Artes Brasil

The building design was a partnership between Pritzker Prize winner Paulo Mendes da Rocha and Metro Arquitetos office. It brings together a theater with capacity for 1,300 spectators, a museum with 3000 sqm of exhibition area, plaza, library, auditorium and café.

Performing Arts Center of the World Trade Center NYC

Ronald O. Perelman Performing Arts Center

Design: REX, Architects. Images of the Ronald O. Perelman Performing Arts Center at the WTC – an 80,000 sqft building that will serve as a major new addition to New York’s cultural landscape, producing and premiering works of theater, dance, music, musical theater, opera, and film.

Taipei Performing Arts Center in Taiwan

Taipei Performing Arts Center in Taiwan

Why have the most exciting theatrical events of the past 100 years taken place outside the spaces formally designed for them? Can architecture transcend its own dirty secret, the inevitability of imposing limits on what is possible?

Shima Kitchen: Teshima Island Building, Japan

Shima Kitchen Building

Design: Atelier Ryo Abe – Shima Kitchen was a renovation project to create a venue for arts and dining from an old vacant house in a village on Teshima, a rural island in the Seto Inland Sea of Western Japan.