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exterior of a federal courthouse with a brise-soliel facade
Bright-Line Rule

Built with a minimal budget, Lake|Flato Architects’ San Antonio Federal Courthouse focuses on the most affordable material of all: daylight

overhead view of new college campus buildings along the hudson river
Dynamic Duo

Comprising two buildings, Columbia University’s new business school presents a dynamic face to a growing campus

entrance to a library and events center as seen from street
Something for Everyone

Adjaye Associates’ Winter Park Library offers many paths of discovery within monumental yet well-scaled enclosures

Radically Open

Selldorf Architects’ expansion of the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego looks out while inviting you in

The Kitchens at Reynolds, two blocky red volumes with cantilevering glass
Lift Off

The Kitchens at Reynolds brings ambitious, multipurpose architecture to an underserved Richmond community

the concrete and hulking atlanta central library
Out Of Frame

The remodel of Marcel Breuer’s Atlanta Central Library demonstrates the fault lines of preservation causes

the ion, a new mall integrated into a historic sears
Plus And Minus

The Ion in Houston upgrades an art deco Sears into a tech-incubating cyborg

the Museum of the American Arts and Crafts Movement, a stone volume with a towering white
Florida All-Stars

Local talents come together to create a world-class Museum of the American Arts and Crafts Movement

inside the textured concrete walls of the amant foundation with a serene garden
Cocoon Time

The Amant Foundation runs out the clock

The new steppenwolf theater, a sloped glass volume at night
It’s Magic

Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture’s expansion of the Steppenwolf Theatre brings the backstage to the house

waterloo park, arranged with whirling paths and a metal pavilion
Green And Grey

At Austin’s Waterloo Park, Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates weaves nature and infrastructure

The new round glass entrance to the denver art museum at night
Opposites Attract

Gio Ponti’s incongruously stolid Denver Art Museum sprouts a space-age appendage

the Mid-Manhattan Library Branch, a squat stone building with a green copper topper
Magic Trick

Mecanoo and Beyer Blinder Belle’s transformation of the Mid-Manhattan Library looks easy

The low boxy exterior of the corvallis museum, with triangular bay windows
Small Wonder

High design meets folksy tastes at Oregon’s Corvallis Museum, with surprising results

The audrey irmas pavilion, a polygonal building tilting towards a wide street
Not Strictly Sacred

OMA expands the Wilshire Boulevard Temple with its first major Los Angeles building

Exterior rendering of a margaritaville outdoor deck
Learning from Margaritaville

What the new Times Square Margaritaville tells us about ourselves

Front facade of the humboldt forum, a baroque palace with multistory columns
Uncritical Reconstruction

The Humboldt Forum in Berlin is finally open, but it fails to inspire

A man skiing down a power plant, Copenhill
BIG Slopes to Shred

BIG’s skiable Copenhill power plant is a contradictory landmark

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