Where a garage once stood, the Sugar Hill Development rises like a charcoal escarpment interrupting the steep descent of busy 155th Street from the rocky spine of New York's upper Manhattan.

Adjaye Associates brings Proenza Schouler's brand of tough luxe to the fashion house's first store in New York.

Adjaye Associates tucks another library into a sloping site in D.C.'s Bellevue neighborhood.

In Russia, a business school flouts the traditional buildings-around-a-green campus organization in favor of a more winter-friendly megastructure.