There’s a reason why Boston was dubbed the “Athens of America.”

The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is unique among museums in the United States, if not the world, in that it was founded, designed, and curated by a woman—its namesake—at a time before women had earned the right to vote.

People unfamiliar with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology tend to picture it as a bastion of, well, nerds majoring in computer science, engineering, and architecture.

The New England Aquarium is a remarkable, beautiful place to spend an afternoon.

For an art-lover, the best thing about Boston is just how much you can see in a short amount of time—without needing a car or public transit.

No. 14 Newbury Street is another one of those buildings that contains a diverse concentration of galleries.

An open-plan, single-room branch library lends books and serves as a place for a young and diverse community to come together.

A renovation and expansion of a midcentury academic tower restores a master's legacy. Preservation and Modernism might seem to have contradictory goals, but not for architects Bruner/Cott. The Cambridge, Massachusetts'based firm is renovating and restoring Boston University's Law Tower and has just completed a 93,000-square-foot addition at its base.

In recent years the design of hospitals that emulate hotels has generated a warming trend in this often forbiddingly cold, institutional building type.