Once a Catholic school, a set of buildings from different decades of the 20th century has been transformed into a modern design hub. Change comes from within.

A design team digs down to artfully connect a historic museum to a building across the way. In the hands of Dutch architect Hans van Heeswijk, the Mauritshuis, a 17th-century mansion in The Hague that later became the Netherlands' first museum, has undergone an impressive expansion.

A Pritzker Prize winner turns back the clock, restoring one of his first works of architecture after it had fallen into disrepair.

A young Dutch firm turns a difficult building from the 1980s into a home for a surprising group of residents: ex-convicts.

A multidisciplinary design team applies a light and skillful touch to restore luster to a faded Lower Manhattan landmark while bringing it up to current standards.

In the shadow of a 16th-century UNESCO-listed castle, a museum steps into the footprint of Denmark’s maritime industry.

Having attracted Twitter, upscale retail, and a food emporium as key tenants, a renovated Art Deco building is kick-starting the transformation of a once-seedy part of San Francisco.

A long-span-steel structure cloaked in modern-classical-style architecture has proved to be flexible for reinvention.

A mixed-use civic center in Germany is brought back to life without forsaking its past.

Limited by a dense site and preservation concerns, an Italian firm creates an underground academy in the heart of a South Tyrol city’s historic center.