David Chipperfield's Turner Contemporary gallery in Margate, due to open on April 16. Earlier - rejected - designs by another architecture practice caused great controversy in the town; Chipperfield responded with what he describes as "a very secure and wholesome building"Photograph: Antonio OlmosView from the pier: the still-to-be-completed Turner Contemporary, MargatePhotograph: Antonio Zazueta Olmos/ Antonio OlmosThe interior of the Turner Contemporary: "the light inside is fantastic" says ChipperfieldPhotograph: Antonio Olmos
The view from Turner Contemporary onto the English Channel. Photograph: Antonio OlmosInterior, Turner ContemporaryPhotograph: Antonio OlmosHepworth Wakefield, Yorkshire, which will showcase 40 sculptures by Barbara Hepworth, who was born in the town, as well as works by her contemporaries. The gallery opens 21 May Photograph: Jonty Wilde/PRLine drawing diagram of Hepworth Wakefield, which consists of an irregular grouping of 10 pavilionsPhotograph: PRChipperfield's restored Neues Museum on Museum Island in Berlin, which opened in 2009Photograph: Fabrizio Bensch/ReutersInterior of the Neues Museum, Berlin. 1.4 million people have visited in the 15 months since it openedPhotograph: Dennis Gilbert/CorbisThe Neues Museum: "to have done something that means so much, a national object dealing with national emotions: nothing can compete with that", says ChipperfieldPhotograph: Michael Kappeler/AFPCentral Library, Des Moines, IowaPhotograph: Paul Raftery/CorbisChipperfield's America's Cup Pavilion, Veles e Vents - or Sails Winds - in the port of ValenciaPhotograph: Kevin Foy/Rex FeaturesThe Museum of Modern Literature, Marbach, GermanyPhotograph: Thomas Langer/GettyAntony Gormley's London studioPhotograph: Peter Cook/Corbis
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