The Architects’ Journal Architecture News & Buildings
Heatherwick and Foster unwrap Bund Finance Centre in Shanghai
Foster + Partners and Heatherwick Studio have completed The Bund Finance Centre, a major new mixed-use development on Shanghai’s waterfront
Cultural
From museums and galleries to opera houses and theatres
What lies beneath: Command of the Oceans by Baynes and Mitchell
The outside bet for this year’s Stirling Prize has its origins in the discovery of the hidden bones of a ship – which is itself somewhat hidden in plain sight
Carmody Groarke’s new V&A members room opens
Carmody Groarke has unveiled the design of the new members room at the Victoria & Albert Museum, which opened to members last week
St Fagans National Museum of History by Purcell
AJ Specification case study: Refurbishment of a 1975 Grade II-listed museum building in Cardiff. Photography by Phil Boorman
Jamie Fobert’s subterranean gallery at Tate St Ives unveiled
The 500m² gallery will finally open on 14 October, after 12 years, two competitions and a change of site
First look: Heatherwick creates Cape Town art museum in former grain silo
Heatherwick Studio’s Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Zeitz MOCAA), a retrofit of an old grain silo on Cape Town’s waterfront, has been unveiled today
A room with a zoo: SimpsonHaugh’s new home for the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra
Antwerp’s new Queen Elisabeth Hall and congress centre by SimpsonHaugh and Partners reinvigorates a lost connection to the adjacent zoo, writes Jon Astbury. Photography by Jesse Willems
Beaux-Arts cubed: Stanton Williams’ Nantes museum
Stanton Williams’ restrained transformation of Nantes’ 19th-century Musée d’arts is a class act, writes Robert Bevan. Photography by Hufton + Crow and Stefano Graziani
Purcell completes latest phase of St Fagans National Museum of History
The renovation of the Cardiff museum’s existing structure is accompanied by a range of new facilities
Cooke Fawcett and Bold Tendencies reach new heights with the Peckham Observatory
The arts organisation adds another architectural delight to its offerings