To the designers at the Los Angeles–based firm Electroland, modern life is a video game.

Sylvain Bigot jokes, “I’m the bridge lighting designer.” Bigot, principal of Neo Light, a firm in Joué Lès Tours, France, has illuminated the Saint Satur Viaduct and the Pont de Montrichard, for which he was awarded first prize in the 2004 Light Competition, which is overseen by the French Ministry of Culture.

At Wu Jiao Plaza in Shanghai’s Yangpu District, the artist Zhong Song created an installation that dynamically melds architecture with lighting.

Architects talk a lot about “landscape” these days, using the word in so many different ways it’s often hard to know what they mean.

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.