The biennial conference, which took place at the end of September, encourages designers in Central America to gather and share ideas.

A progressive 19th-century psychiatric hospital is reimagined as an elegant urban resort in Buffalo, New York.

Auburn University’s Rural Studio transforms an aging bank building in Newbern, Alabama, into the town’s first public library.

On June 7, 2017, architects and others gathered at San Francisco’s Mission Bay Conference Center for Architectural Record’s 19th Innovation Conference, the fourth held on the West Coast.

New facilities provide much-needed services while creating neighborhood gathering spaces and bringing together diverse populations.

“I am interested in the idea of an ‘essential architecture’ in the tropics,” says Panama City–based architect Patrick Dillon, who was born to American parents and raised in the Canal Zone.

For Marcio Kogan, the São Paulo–based architect who has been obsessed with film from a very early age, making movies and making architecture are inextricable pursuits.

An architect works with a sprawling one-of-a-kind lot to create an urban oasis for a family.