A Pritzker Prize–winning architect carves tunnels through a concrete-and-glass box to create a bold theater complex for a burgeoning district in Shanghai.

A simple box, dressed up with a curving metal screen, gives an ancient city a modern monument.

With its first theater built from the ground up, a firm brings the spirit—and the bricks—of the past into a modern performance space in London.

Architect William Rawn is often asked about the 85-foot-long undulating glass facade at his recently completed Ruth Caplin Theatre on the campus of the University of Virginia (UVA), in Charlottesville. People wonder, he says, if it was inspired by Thomas Jefferson’s serpentine brick walls that are part of the so-called Lawn—the complex of 18th-century structures and grounds at the university’s historic heart.

WASA/Studio A and H3 Hardy Collaboration Architecture team up on the Jerome Robbins Theater and Dimenna Center for Classical Music in Manhattan.