Hartshorne Plunkard Architecture and Roman and Williams convert an athletic club into a hotel, imaginatively combining modern and historic architectural flourishes for an updated approach to play and respite.

The Whitworth Gallery, in England’s booming second city, Manchester, is a cultural institution that took a walk in the park back in 1889—it was the first English art museum to adopt a parkland rather than urban setting.

Apple takes its futuristic wares to a stately building in an historic neighborhood.

It’s not always easy to be an architect in modern Italy, where contemporary design must measure itself against the weight of historic patrimony.

At 985 feet long, an abandoned Panasonic television factory in Beijing offered tantalizing potential as a cultural space—and huge challenges.