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Modesty is rare amongst global architectural practices, yet Dutch firm Mecanoo is an exception. With major projects under way from New York to Taiwan, Mecanoo has recently completed a surprisingly understated railway station and municipal offices in its hometown of Delft that also helps repair a torn urban fabric.

The old football field may be long gone, but Mrs. Clark Thompson’s temperance-era rite was oddly prophetic. More than a century later, on the footprint of its grandstands, Ohio Field has been reincarnated as a new chilled-water facility.

To create the iconic curving forms of the cruise-ship terminal in Porto, Portugal, architect Luís Pedro Silva began working from the project’s territorial context rather than simply seeking a display of formal prowess.

Stanford University’s Central Energy Facility has a lot of serious technology, but much of it is presented in the lively hues more typical of a children’s museum.

Precision Crafted: A storied manufacturer of beer tanks wraps its new production facilities in a pristinely fabricated skin.

The Singapore government funded the $370 million museum complex, which opened in November 2015 as a highlight of the island-nation’s 50th anniversary as an independent republic.

Hartshorne Plunkard Architecture and Roman and Williams convert an athletic club into a hotel, imaginatively combining modern and historic architectural flourishes for an updated approach to play and respite.

The Whitworth Gallery, in England’s booming second city, Manchester, is a cultural institution that took a walk in the park back in 1889—it was the first English art museum to adopt a parkland rather than urban setting.

Apple takes its futuristic wares to a stately building in an historic neighborhood.

It’s not always easy to be an architect in modern Italy, where contemporary design must measure itself against the weight of historic patrimony.