Hermès’s newest emporium has an unassuming facade and a pair of store windows with displays of furniture and flowers that fit neatly into the bourgeois row of shop fronts on the rue de Sèvres in Paris’s 6th arrondissement.

A five-story, 18,800-square-foot extended-stay hotel in Vancouver's historic Chinatown.

On a bright Sunday morning, the Dutch designer Trude Hooykaas rode her bike to the ferry to the northern part of Amsterdam, across the sea arm called the IJ.

To First-time visitors to Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts (MFA), it might appear that the fruits of its $345 million capital project are limited to the recently opened Arts of the Americas Wing at the building’s eastern end, designed by London-based Foster + Partners.

A four-level, 27,000-square-foot performance hall with an auditorium on the two main floors, office space on a small third floor, a lounge and parking below plaza level, and three additional floors of subterranean parking.

A three-story, 50,000-square-foot classroom and research building at North Carolina State University, with lecture halls, laboratories, advising offices, a television production studio, video editing suites, and an internet caf'.

A 110,000-square-foot, 20-story residential tower with 67 live-work lofts and a fitness center on the mezzanine.

Like many metropolitan areas in the West, Tucson has its share of generic strip malls and sprawling subdivisions.

Architects assigned to create an addition to an existing structure often face a delicate task.

The ubiquitous “Keep Austin Weird” movement seems more defined by what it’s against — big-box stores, Mediterranean-style buildings, Hummers — than what it’s for.