A monumental framework encloses a surprising diaphanous form in the Esposizione Universale Roma, south of Rome.

A museum near Jerusalem, dedicated to Palestinian culture, offers a glimmer of optimism in troubled times.

SelgasCano creates fluid environments for the workspace enterprise Second Home.

The new Design Building at the University of Massachusetts Amherst eschewed steel, becoming the largest academic facility made of technologically advanced timber.

Gehry’s jewel of a concert hall in Berlin was designed to transcend differences.

An altruistic program breathes new life into an old building while giving hope to at-risk youth in Toronto.

An Art Deco office building beyond the Loop is reimagined as an urbane hotel by Antunovich Associates with Nicolas Schuybroek Architects and Marc Merckx.

An airy chapel is set against a somber historic synagogue in Los Angeles.

A German church is resurrected to serve its congregation as well as a local choir.

Renovations of the Hall of Science in Queens, New York; the Richards Medical Research Laboratories at the University of Pennsylvania; the Greeley Memorial Laboratory at Yale; and the Manton Research Center at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts.