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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.

The CKK Jordanki concert hall emerges like an outcrop of weathered rock from an urban park in Toruń, in northern Poland. Its Spanish architect, Fernando Menis, has yoked such imagery to local architectural references and technical ingenuity to establish a strong character for the building while deferring to its sensitive setting on the edge of the medieval Old Town.

A group of recent projects demonstrates that true universal design goes beyond mere accessibility.

A curving ladder of sculptural balconies rises above the double-height display windows of UNStudio’s first project in Brussels—a mixed-use block on the highend Avenue de la Toison d’Or.

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

Architecture buffs will likely know the Sheats-Goldstein Residence as John Lautner’s Beverly Hills space-age masterpiece. Others may recognize it as pornographer Jackie Treehorn’s pad in the 1998 Coen Brothers' film, The Big Lebowski. Beginning today, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) will consider it an impending part of its collection.