A longer school day prompted the client and architects to rethink the way education is delivered in Germany and how it is housed.

For an academic center, a former RECORD Vanguard architect revives a centuries-old building method to create a new archetype. There is a common thread that runs through all of Studio Gang’s work.

For years, Philip Johnson's glass-skinned Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove, California'completed in 1981 for televangelist Robert Schuller and his Reformed Church in America'operated as a broadcasting venue as well as a house of worship.

A new campus museum quietly serves up a visual banquet. It’s tempting for designers to try to turn art museums into works of art themselves. But what if the client’s directive is just the opposite? A new campus museum in the Bay Area by the New York–based firm Ennead Architects may disappoint those hoping for a bigger architectural statement.

The bucolic backdrop of the recently opened Fondation Louis Vuitton, set within Paris’s Bois de Boulogne park, inspired a garden building in the tradition of Joseph Paxton’s long-destroyed Crystal Palace. Like that famous structure, erected in London’s Hyde Park in 1851, Frank Gehry’s billowing new museum features vast expanses of glass.

A simple box, dressed up with a curving metal screen, gives an ancient city a modern monument.

With its first theater built from the ground up, a firm brings the spirit—and the bricks—of the past into a modern performance space in London.