The first CLADglobal news roundup video is now live. In this broadcast, we look at the winning design for the forthcoming Adelaide Contemporary art museum, explore Woods Bagot’s plans to transform an abandoned sugar factory in China into a cultural and leisure park and take a look at the stylish new Scottish distillery and visitor centre Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners have created for whisky-maker The Macallan. Finally, sports architect

This week culture and the performing arts came into focus on CLADglobal.com, as we learnt about several exciting developing projects. Dutch architects MVRDV revealed they have received the go ahead for a novel cultural complex in Zaanstad – which will see silhouettes of traditional buildings carved into the exterior – while on the other side of the world, design renderings were released for a Texas concert hall inspired and named

Museum news featured heavily on our site this week, with exciting projects around the world reaching various significant milestones. Today (29 April), MVRDV’s flamboyant golden Denmark Museum of Rock Music opened in the Danish city Roskilde and international architecture studio Snøhetta released new images of their 10-storey addition to the SFMOMA in San Francisco. Earlier this week, David Chipperfield’s Nobel Center and museum received the green light from Stockholm City

Museum news featured heavily on our site this week, with exciting projects around the world reaching various significant milestones. Today (29 April), MVRDV’s flamboyant golden Denmark Museum of Rock Music opened in the Danish city Roskilde and international architecture studio Snøhetta released new images of their 10-storey addition to the SFMOMA in San Francisco. Earlier this week, David Chipperfield’s Nobel Center and museum received the green light from Stockholm City

This week was a busy one for Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects, who broke ground on an art gallery and clubhouse on a lake in southern China and unveiled their plans for a new green-topped mixed-use complex in Stockholm. The latter project is one of a host of big green space projects which were announced this week. Others included a High Line-inspired park in Vancouver and a floating sky park in

It’s been another busy week in the world of leisure architecture, design, investment and development, and CLAD has reported on some exciting trends and discoveries which will have big implications for the industry. We covered an important new study into graphene, which found that by using biomimicry this nanometre thin material could be applied in buildings as ‘smart wallpaper’ to generate electricity from waste light or heat, potentially revolutionising how

A French architecture studio have created a new dance school in Paris clad in a perforated metal veil that seems to change in appearance depending on the position of the sun. Dance School Aurélie Dupont – named after the famous French ballet dancer who retired last year after 32 years at the Paris Opera – hosts ballet, classical and jazz classes and has been built as part of the redevelopment

After drawing the ire of the Egyptian government when it created a replica sphinx last year, a Chinese theme park in Shijiazhuang has added to its collection, creating a 1:1 replica version of Paris’ Louvre Pyramid. Not sharing quite the same iconic locale, the replica Louvre Pyramid – the original of which first opened in 1989 – sits in the overgrown field of the unique amusement park/movie set in Shijiazhuang,