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When architect John Galen Howard mapped a Beaux-Arts plan for the University of California, Berkeley campus in the early 20th century, one of the first buildings erected in its spirit was Durant Hall—a two-story steel-framed structure completed in 1911 and wrapped in granite along classical lines.

A four-story, 239,992-square-foot building for Princeton University's chemistry department, with research and departmental labs and a 256-seat auditorium in the basement, teaching labs and a café on the ground floor, and research labs on the upper three floors.

When a college expands and grows, building shiny state-of-the art facilities at its periphery, the oldest buildings at the heart of campus are sometimes neglected.

A three-story, 38,815-square-foot interdisciplinary arts center in Providence, Rhode Island, contains mix of Brown University's departments, including theater, dance, music, and visual art.

While regarded as one of Eero Saarinen's most distinctive works during his short career, the Morse and Ezra Stiles Colleges at Yale University (1958–62) in New Haven have long seemed more appealing in photographs than in real life.

Yoshio Taniguchi has returned to the U.S. for his second significant commission here—an elegantly restrained new home for the Asia Society Texas Center.

Airport hotels are rarely, if ever, listed in travel guides as “worth a visit.”

A seven-story, 63,000-square-foot apartment building in the Brownsville neighborhood of Brooklyn.

Frank Gehry drapes his first skyscraper in rippling stainless steel, bringing luxury living to lower Manhattan.