A two-story, 144,217-square-foot retail grocery store, with a café, a community room, offices, staff facilities, underground parking, a warehouse, and a full commercial kitchen serving this store and Berkeley Bowl's Oregon Street location.

A 5,000-square-foot expansion of Gagosian's existing galleries and offices, which were designed by Richard Meier in 1995.

If you don’t think books can make a spectacular entrance, visit the Livraria da Vila in São Paulo’s haute Jardim Paulista neighborhood.

A one-story, 9,688-square-foot sales pavilion for a Hefei condo developer, in which sales spaces—from reception and exhibition to contract signing and administration—are interspersed with themed courtyards featuring bamboo, flowers, water, or camphor trees.

An 800-square-foot basement space for a sneaker and fashion footwear company, housing a press office and a showroom that doubles as a VIP meeting room.

A 26,910-square-foot brand showcase for the Spanish bathroom-fixture company, with offices and a garden at the basement level, a museum of the brand on the ground floor, a showroom on the first floor, and an event space on the second floor.

In museum circles, curators and artists are well known for kvetching about architects who compete with the art on view by foisting major design statements onto willing clients.