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

A surgical restoration preserves an eccentric artist's singular home in San Francisco.

ARO makes the best of a temporary site in New York with bright graphics and playful design.

MASS Design group is used to working in remote places. Building schools or health centers where there were none and training local labor is practically written into its DNA.

Dramatically framed by Morphosis’s glassy Federal Building looming behind it, the revived Strand theater, a gleaming red experimental performance space and education center for the American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, clicks into its site on San Francisco’s Market Street like one of the final pieces of a complex puzzle.

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.