Oodi Library – reclaiming civic space Ultimate museum experience in Dundee by Kengo Kuma Helsinki goes underground: Amos Rex is shortlisted for the Finlandia Architecture Award Obsession with huts showcased in Venice Vatican Pavilions on the Island of San Giorgio, Venice Biennale New Serpentine Summer Pavilion by Frida Escobedo Venice Biennale – Giardini Pavilions Torre – Fondazione Prada’s Milan venue now complete Zhang Ke – beauty in béton brut ARoS – rainbow panorama over Aarhus Serpentine Pavilion by Francis Kéré Alvar Aalto – art and formal innovations Elbphilharmonie concert hall documented by Candida Höfer All about context – new museums in Lisbon and Tartu The year in Review LX Factory, Lisbon’s industrial district saved from developers New heights: my flight up the new BAi360 Helsinki waterfront hotspot – Löyly Sauna Magic in brick – new Tate Modern extension Serpentine Pavilion 2016 – collaboration in work, play and experiment New Materialities – Reporting from Venice Learning from Rotterdam – IABR 2016 Concrete wave by Zaha Hadid i360 – a high-tech viewing tower by Marks Barfield FROM THE ARCHIVE: The first London building by Zaha Hadid Zaha Hadid 1950-2016 – A visionary and creative force Fernando Guerra – decisive moments in architecture Urban space and the arts patrons: Prada, Broad, Hirst and Zhukova Conceptual wood imagined by Ai Weiwei Maison Carré near Paris, by photographer Elina Brotherus Paris Photo, until tragic Friday 13 attacks Poetic materiality – Ai Weiwei and intuition Buildings and space, photography at Frieze 2015, London Lost Palmyra – what was there, by Mark Pimlott Fondazione Prada, designed by Rem Koolhaas New Serpentine Pavilion by Selgascano Hélène Binet receives Julius Shulman Award Neo-Romantic Urban Bridge Design – hotly contested in London Tuomas Uusheimo Exhibition at Lasipalatsi, Helsinki Inside Gehry’s dream – the new Louis Vuitton Foundation Most talked about at Frieze Masters Venice Biennale – the Island of Giudecca Gehry’s first building in Latin America Louis Kahn at Design Museum Hauser & Wirth – Somerset outpost Boa Nova restaurant re-opened New Serpentine Pavilion by Chilean architect Smiljan Radic Sound and space at Prada Foundation, Venice Venice Biennale talks and responses For the first time Venice Architecture Biennale launches in June Film about the human side of Rem Koolhaas Anish Kapoor’s steel sculpture Shigeru Ban’s first museum in the US Ace Hotel, LA – Neo-Goth meets Route 66 Historic Marrakech sites with cutting edge art London, Regents Canal – new jetty by young architects London spiral staircases Miami, Biscayne Bay, Perez Art Museum like a giant seaside bungalow Baku, Azerbaijan – a cultural monument designed by Zaha Hadid Interview with architect Rudy Ricciotti, translated from GEO, France Never built in Los Angeles New Sackler Gallery in Hyde Park by Zaha Hadid Marseille: sculptural waterfront MAMO art gallery on the rooftop on l’Unité in Marseille MuCEM in Marseille, just before opening Sou Fujimoto at the new Serpentine Summer Pavilion Pedder Building in Hong Kong, home to leading galleries Hong Kong, upping with culture Toyo Ito, Pritzker Prize winner by Juhani Pallasmaa and Iwan Baan The Shard – Soon to Open MONA – the latest Oz phenomenon Design Miami/Miami Beach 2012 Architecture in Wood – The Aalto Pavilion Restored Shanghai Biennial – growing in scale and ambition Photographer Ola Kolehmainen on new show Preview of Grand Tour magazine app
