DAVID CHIPPERFIELD

Robben Island and Table Mountain. zeitzmocaa.museum; admission: R180 (£11). For more on Cape Town, visit telegraph.co.uk/tt-capetown

BILBAO GUGGENHEIM SPAIN

building. Bilbao had a newly revitalised riverfront, new hotels and an airport, as well as historic squares and serious Basque cuisine.

guggenheim-bilbao.eus/en/ the-building; admission: €13 (£11). For more on Bilbao, visit telegraph. co.uk/tt-bilbao

OLYMPIC STADIUM, BEIJING

CHINA

the emergence of China into the modern world on the edge of superpower status. The so-called Bird’s Nest stadium – made from steel – now forms the anchor for a park on the edge of Beijing’s centre, and a backdrop for a continuous stream of selfies. n-s.cn/enindex.aspx; guided tour from 50 yuan (£6). For more on Beijing, visit telegraph.co.uk/ tt-beijing

JUMEX MUSEUM, MEXICO CITY

Not every new museum looks like a train wreck. Chipperfield’s first project in Mexico offers a generous and welcoming series of calm public spaces in a crowded and sometimes daunting city that has its own share of modern landmarks, notably by the great Mexican modernist, Luis Barragán. The sawtooth roof of the museum is a tribute to the studio that the painter Diego Rivera shared in the city with his lover, Frida Kahlo.

fundacionjumex.org/en; admission: 50 pesos (£2).

MILLAU VIADUCT

leviaducdemillau.com/fr; guided tour: €4.50.

HEYDAR ALIYEV CENTRE, BAKU AZERBAIJAN

Parisian-style boulevards and handsome sea front make Baku, the capital of oil-rich Azerbaijan, a much more likely tourist destination than most cities in former Soviet republics. The huge Aliyev cultural centre, named after the country’s formidable and authoritarian post-Soviet president, was one of the last major projects Dame Zaha Hadid completed before her death in 2016 at the age of just 65. It swoops up out of a grey suburb in soaring white curves, while the interior mixes a timber-lined concert hall with art spaces and a collection of presidential limousines that helps explain criticism of the project.

heydaraliyevcenter.az; admission: 15 Azerbaijan manat (£7).

LOUVRE ABU DHABI

CALMING CUBE The Jumex museum in frantic Mexico City