Wang Shu and his wife and partner Lu Wenyu design an idiosyncratic retreat in their home city of Hangzhou, China.

These projects provide healthy escapes, demonstrate sensitivity to local conditions, and combat the effects of a warming planet.

Shrouded in greenery, a mixed-use complex reshapes a plaza at the heart of Düsseldorf.

A large development outside of Houston provides recreational features while managing flooding naturally.

A Seattle-based architecture firm deftly orchestrates a new site for the Louisiana Children’s Museum by a lagoon in the Big Easy.

An epic waterfront park in New York nears completion as its final pier is developed for active and passive use.

A San Francisco–based landscape firm creates a public waterfront park on a corporate site in Seattle.

A new monument reckons with the past of a historic campus—and of the nation.

Outside of Barcelona, a design and landscape architecture firm redefined a busy intersection as an elegant new town center.

Upcoming projects in Liberia, Rwanda, and Nigeria offer widely applicable best practices.