A soaring symbol of San Francisco’s past, 140 New Montgomery—also known as the PacBell Building—has become a hub for some of the Bay Area’s most forward-looking companies.

With the proliferation of digital data, the private laptop has been taking a toll on the public library.

Modular construction yields a surprisingly fresh aesthetic in a school for young children in Germany.

How do you give civic scale and stature to a mid-rise school in a high-rise context? This was one of the challenges faced by bKL Architecture in designing the new lower school of GEMS World Academy in Chicago.

On a tidy parcel of land in Kansas City, Missouri, the Ewing Marion Kauffman School demonstrates an elegant sense of order and pragmatism while suggesting a forward-thinking attitude.

You might say that East Harlem in Manhattan is well-known for the wrong reasons, such as high rates of crime and joblessness. But the neighborhood, traditionally called El Barrio for its largely Latino population, has shown significant signs of change—and not just gentrification as landlords renovate apartments to lure young professionals able to pay higher rents.

Unifying old and new buildings on a girls school campus in London creates a fresh identity—and wins the Stirling Prize.

MASS Design group is used to working in remote places. Building schools or health centers where there were none and training local labor is practically written into its DNA.