MY Studio/H'weler + Yoon Architecture's Lo Rez Hi Fi gives a D.C. building a much-needed sense of place

Thai restaurants are as ubiquitous in Los Angeles as palm trees.

The London- and Edinburgh-based lighting design firm Speirs and Major Associates’ portfolio boasts a gamut of neon-hued urban landmarks, ranging from the Bridge of Aspiration in London to developments in Dubai.

While Foster + Partners was building a new home for the University of Toronto’s pharmacy school, the university commissioned Moriyama & Teshima to transform the 25-year-old building that the pharmacy school had just vacated, converting the sacred halls of academe into a spiritual center for the university community.

Look closer. That’s the way Janos Korban and Stefanie Flaubert approach their work.

Like shooting stars against a night sky—or a glowing game of pick-up sticks—thin rods of white light dynamically charge the black-box auditorium of the Billy Wilder Theater in the Hammer Museum at UCLA.

The Caixa Galicia Foundation, a regional cultural center designed by Grimshaw Architects, packs a lot of design intensity into a small but prime port-side site in La Coruña, on Spain’s northwest Atlantic coast.

With its ethereal, milky-white skin and faceted curves, Frank Gehry’s IAC Building stands out against the heavy, industrial structures surrounding it on the western fringe of Manhattan’s rapidly evolving Chelsea neighborhood.

People have been living in Rome, the longest continually inhabited place on the planet, for the past 3,000 years.

Rarely does an architect get the chance to add significantly to, much less transform, work done decades before.