Harvard University recently acquired the 1887 Hasty Pudding Club building, formerly owned by the oldest society at Harvard, a secret society that transitioned into a theatrical group by the 1840s.

The two-story storefront at 4611 North Lincoln Avenue on Chicago’s North Side may not be Louis Sullivan’s highest-profile commission, but its delicate ornament and graceful proportions certainly reveal his skillful hand.

The Sheila C. Johnson Design Center establishes a new 32,800-square-foot campus nexus for Parsons The New School for Design by uniting and radically reorganizing the street-level spaces of the school’s four buildings around a new urban quad.

First came the reconstruction. Jianfu Palace Garden (Garden of the Palace of Established Happiness), a compound in the northwest corner of the Forbidden City in Beijing, burned down in 1923.

At a fund-raiser held recently at the Diane von Furstenberg Studio Headquarters in New York City, a guest, Hugh Hardy, FAIA, ebulliantly broke out into a Gershwin tune, “I’ll build a stairway to paradise, with a new step every day.”

Located in New York City’s rejuvenated High Line district, The Cedar Lake Dance Ensemble is a technologically advanced black box theater for an ambitious dance troupe.