Lorcan O’Herlihy and Stephen Kanner refer to the checkerboard wall snaking through their Performance Capture Studio (PCS) north of San Francisco as a “strange loop,” a term used in film and other arts to describe something that breaks down the usual hierarchies of time or space and ends up where it started.

When the 12-person Manhattan architecture firm, Michael Neumann Architecture, had outgrown its office, a converted two-bedroom apartment, they sought a new space with more room that was close to public transportation and provided natural light and fresh air.

The two-story L-shaped offices are located in a glass building that faces New York City’s Central Park.

When the Energy Foundation, a partnership of philan-thropic investors that promotes clean-energy technolo-gies, outgrew its offices in a former military hospital on San Francisco's Presidio, it saw an opportunity to recreate its headquarters not only to accommodate its rapidly growing staff, but also to better reflect its mission.

The mere thought of a high-profile architect designing a shop for a well-known fashion designer raises the old question: Will the container dominate the contained—i.e., the clothes?

To enhance the simplicity of Tom Colicchio’s Southern artisan ingredients and seasonal menu, the architects designed a restaurant that features a natural palette and Southern élan.

This 1920s industrial loft adjacent to the elevated High Line pedestrian park has been transformed into a space for living, entertaining, and displaying of contemporary art.

Hell’s Kitchen, a gritty, rapidly gentrifying district on Midtown Manhattan’s west side, buzzes with a mix of prewar residential and commercial buildings, Modern towers, hotels, theaters, and shops.

As you enter the lobby of the California Institute of Tech-nology’s Graduate Aerospace Laboratories (GALCIT), your eye is drawn upward, where an amoebalike entity clings to the ceiling.

Billy and Shosh Vergara had a clear vision when it came to the design of their first yoga studio, Yoga Deva.