12,937 square feet of office space—divided into a north office and a south office—on the ground floor of the World Wildlife Fund’s eight-story building in the West End neighborhood of Washington, D.C.

Of the three new buildings that compose Tod Williams and Billie Tsien’s Center for the Advancement of Public Action (CAPA) at Bennington College in Vermont, it is the program-less “Lens” that best represents the iconoclastic institution where students have been designing their own curricula since 1932.

A 10,500-square-foot open-plan office with team rooms for group work, a conference room, a lounge, and a kitchen.

A three-level, 112,000-square-foot headquarters for the nonprofit global health organization PATH.

A 3,500-square-foot office for the nonprofit Taproot Foundation, an organization that connects resource-strapped nonprofits with businesses willing to offer pro bono services.

A public plaza featuring a 12-story, 86,004-square-foot office tower for the coffee trading company Neumann Gruppe, two 7-story towers at 52,689 square feet and 47,684 square feet, and 105,109 square feet of underground parking and mechanical space spread over three underground levels.

The free-form shapes and autumn-colored louvers of two sibling office buildings are studies in contrast to the surrounding business district, proving that chart-topping efficiency can be sleek and comfortable, too.

Program: A 108,000-square-foot mixed-use complex for Shop & Trade, a clothing import and distribution company, with offices, a supermarket, and 97,000 square feet of underground parking. Two four-story office blocks form an L shape around the supermarket and overlook a garden, which doubles as a green roof for the market. Shop & Trade's offices are housed in the larger block set behind the store; the other office block rises in a narrow tower to the west and includes leasable office space. The development is part of a ten-year effort to revitalize an industrial neighborhood; a mile down the road, Kokkinou