Odile Decq draws from Lyon’s industrial context to project the waterfront’s new identity. From Oslo and Lisbon to Hamburg and Amsterdam, the last 20 years have seen many of Europe’s redundant urban dockyards transformed into architectural zoos, peppered with signature structures by top-tier architects, often with greater regard for novelty than for the particularities of history or place.

Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi create an uplifting gateway for a corporate campus.

Can an office building, using only heat generated by occupants, their equipment, and lighting—and using only operable panels for cooling—maintain year-round indoor comfort?

Weiss/Manfredi breaks into the box, ingeniously chiseling out a variety of spaces for a new office building.

A free regional health center embodies wellness in its refined simplicity.

The first residential building in San Francisco's Transbay redevelopment area sets the bar high for those that follow.

In a remote village in southern Burundi, an American architect joins forces with the local community to build a simple and sensitive dormitory for health-care staff.

An affordable-housing complex on a long-vacant site preserves part of San Francisco's rapidly gentrifying South of Market neighborhood.

Boldly designed housing for the chronically homeless anchors a mixed residential development in a rapidly changing neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York.