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One of five ongoing landscape interventions in the Freshkills Park masterplan, North Park transforms a sprawling former municipal landfill into open public space.

Flanked by major cultural venues, Lynn Wyatt Square brings the performing arts outside in Texas's largest city—with ample shade, of course.

Fresh perspectives augment this year's array of cultural projects, which range from intimate to monumental.

Aviva Studios offers year-round flexible programming space and a permanent home for the biennial Manchester International Festival.

Forum: MVRDV's revamping of the Pyramid of Tirana—a former monument to an Albanian dictator—demonstrates how structures can be maintained, but their significance transformed.

Inspired by interactions from the country's colonial past, the indigenous Australian artist and the award-winning firm collaboratively design a shaded plaza and community center.

Designed by VenhoevenCS, IJboulevard at Amsterdam Central Station creates space for life to flourish above and below the surface.

In a small industrial town, a striking brick-clad municipal building pays equal respect to civil servants and the public.

Sou Fujimoto builds a community hub using familiar forms for a Japanese town devastated by the 2011 earthquake and Tsunami.

A pan-European collective of architecture firms will update the existing building with a diaphanous skin and "green agora" on the roof.