Before moving to this surprisingly exposed location in the Old Town area of Pasadena, California, the 10-person advanced-design team, an in-house R&D engine, had been buried deep in Honda’s corporate campus some 25 miles down the freeway, in Torrance.

It’s every architect’s fantasy—getting carte blanche from a client. “It was excellent, and the first time for me,” Gus Wustemann says with evident glee, recalling how a couple contacted him after seeing his work in magazines, and offered complete creative license.

Kengo Kuma wraps a hot springs hotel, Japan's Ginzan Onsen Fujiya, in screens as exquisitely delicate as a cricket cage.

Asymptote's glowingly mist-blue store for Alessi adds drama to New York's SoHo neigborhood.

Even though Jin’s Global Standard occupies a busy corner inside a shopping center near Tokyo, this eyeglass boutique looks nothing like your typical suburban mall shop.

The largest synagogue in the world occupies a prominent corner on New York City’s Fifth Avenue across from Central Park.

In 1982, the Pennsylvania Electric Company abandoned use of the historic Chester Waterside Station on the Delaware River, a 1916 coal-fired electrical power plant.

The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota, Fla., has long held one of the world's great collections of baroque masters, including Peter Paul Rubens, Velazquez, van Dyck, and others.

This building, originally an unassuming, three-story warehouse, was part of a thriving tobacco industry that socially and economically defined the South Boston, Virginia, community in the early 20th century.

Boston-based firm Ann Beha Architects transforms a historic Masonic Temple into a useful expansion for the Portland Art Museum.