Just outside Venice, a new cultural center hopes to reinvent the Italian tourist mecca's industrial counterpart.

In California, a charter high school's new home opens up to welcome its students and the largely Latino community it serves.

An addition to a primary school in London is scaled to its residential surroundings.

A dynamic school replacement in Washington seeks to stimulate learning, curiosity, and joy.

A private boarding school in a former textile factory in China uses design to engage students with the history and topography of its site.

A progressive elementary school in Dallas expresses its ethos through architecture.

In China, a subterranean museum with spectacular domelike galleries opens up to ocean views.

Artificial hills are alive with the sound of music at this performing arts center in Taiwan.

An oceanfront research center in California borrows from farm vernacular.

A dormitory brings a contemporary edge to a Pennsylvanian campus of traditional stone.