Aspiring to give Valencia, Spain’s third-largest city, cultural clout and a tourist magnet rivaling Frank Gehry’s museum in Bilbao, the regional government set out to develop an 86.5-acre site on a dry riverbed, midway between Valencia’s old section and its coastal district.

During construction, the reaction to Nelson-Atkins’ Bloch Building ran the gamut from irascible to irate.

Unexpected edge conditions and juxtapositions characterize not only the location of McGill University’s New Music Building (NMB—until it gets a donor name), but also the complexities of the department itself.

Completed in March, the bold $8.2 million, reflective steel-and-glass project—called Haus im Haus (House-Within-a-House)—provides a jolt of Modern elegance that enlivens and casts a new light on its historic setting.

The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, based in a converted, much-expanded landmark, the Ellen Scripps house, designed by Irving Gill in 1915 in idyllic La Jolla, may be as well known for its stunning, oceanside setting as for its bold, nationally acclaimed exhibitions.

Reincarnation has long been a way of life for the Roundhouse, a cylindrical building in the Camden section of north London.

This could be called one of the toughest renovation jobs imaginable.

Blunt, thickset, elemental––these are your first impressions, having turned through the close neighborhood streets of Firminy and come upon the Eglise Saint-Pierre Firminy-Vert in the widening expanse of its suburban setting.

How do you turn a Renaissance Revival banking hall from 1917 into a 21st-century visual-arts library and do it on a tight budget?