The Milanese firm of CLS Architetti, founded in 1993 by Giovanna Cornelio, Massimiliano Locatelli, and Annamaria Scevola, has carved out a reputation for a modish modernismo style. Its portfolio includes fashion boutiques, offices, showrooms, apartments, and the Lia Rumma Contemporary Art Gallery in Milan (2009). 

To accommodate its staff, the Denmark-based studio reimagines wood buildings once used by the Royal Danish Navy.

For a new caf', an architect re-engineers the DNA of the California Academy of Sciences next door.

A dark and mysterious pavilion—the first new arrival in two decades—shakes up the Venice Biennale.

A small glass and steel pavilion for scholars and writers on the grounds of the American Academy in Berlin is an elegant essay in structure.

Two bold yet thoughtful structures elevate the architecture of grieving and remembrance at burial grounds near Tokyo.