In Helsinki’s former docklands, Lahdelma & Mahlamäki builds loftlike government offices.

Patano Studio Architecture reimagines a run-down observatory in Washington to reflect its celestial purpose.

Marble Fairbanks’ Greenpoint Library and Environmental Education Center in Brooklyn aims to engage a community stung by industrial neglect.

LEVER creates a headquarters for a Portland, Oregon, foundation committed to social equity.

SHoP designs a veterans center at Syracuse University, connecting town and gown.

Looking to its past and its future, Berlin continues to reshape public space with new and old architecture.

For a library in Provence, Dominique Coulon incorporates the site’s extraordinary pre-existing conditions.

Wutopia Lab enlivens a mundane shopping venue with a fanciful topography.

Ingenhoven Architects revives Düsseldorf’s sinuous Schauspielhaus, a beloved postwar landmark.

With their refined makeover of a dowdy ski club in Ontario, Williamson Williamson gives generations of members something to celebrate.