1. Lappia Hall, a significant public building by Alvar Aalto in the Finnish capital of Lapland has reopened after an extensive but sensitive renovation. The building holds Rovaniemi Theatre – the northernmost theatre of the European Union – the Finnish Broadcasting Company, and the Music School of Lapland. They are all housed under a distinctive wavy roof, which was intended to reference the mountains nearby.
2. Ramp House in Sao Paulo’s decor and interior design – here, the wonderfully intimate but spare mood is the work of Diana Radomysler and was conceived as a fundamental part of the architecture, creating a dramatic sense of completion. 
3. Red Bull’s Copper recording studio is creating works of art inside and out. Wrapped in over a kilometre of undulating copper bands that mimic the natural flow of sound and music, the new music hub in Berlin is the twelfth addition to Red Bull’s international network of state-of-the-art studios, offering a creative space.
4. The very recent addition of the Broad Museum – now the LA’s largest free contemporary art spot, opened in September – has confirmed the Downtown neighbourhood’s status as a permanent cultural destination for Angelinos and visitors.
5. Matheson Whiteley’s Hackney Artist Studio is immaculate. The team identified the original envelope’s rawness and scale as its most striking feature and worked to keep this, avoiding excessive lining or fake ceilings. ‘This meant that the existing service pipes from the apartments had to be carefully incorporated, almost in a compositional way, into the design, giving them a kind of logic,’ explains Matheson. ‘We tried to keep things as direct as possible and to maintain an ambiguity about what was original and what is new.’ Go. See. Now
