A long-span-steel structure cloaked in modern-classical-style architecture has proved to be flexible for reinvention.

A mixed-use civic center in Germany is brought back to life without forsaking its past.

Limited by a dense site and preservation concerns, an Italian firm creates an underground academy in the heart of a South Tyrol city’s historic center.

A firm transforms Mexico's national cinema into a bustling, sexy civic hub. The joke goes like this: the person handing out woven mats for visitors to sit on while watching outdoor film screenings on the lawn of Mexico City's Cineteca Nacional is said to ask young couples if they would like one mat, or—lilting into a suggestive tone—two.

A sleek and seemingly simple glass-and-aluminum volume encloses a high-tech theater devoted to keeping classics current

A rower crouches with her knees tucked below her fists, then dips her oars in the water and pulls back. The lines of the oars sketch an elegant V in the air, which is repeated over and over as the slender boat cuts through the water. Jeanne Gang thought about such movement when she started designing the WMS Boathouse at Clark Park in Chicago.

On a tough site, a public school touts its forward-thinking mission with design, while providing a model for sustainability.

Located on the East River in Queens with panoramic views of Manhattan, a new public school by FXFOWLE lives up to its arresting site.

A 9,100-square-foot pre-K-through-fifth-grade building and a 6,200-square-foot sixth-through-twelfth-grade building for a charter school serving native Hawaiians of all ages.

A visionary plan transforms a former IBM office complex into a high school that’s anything but textbook.