A bright new shop on Manhattan's West 22nd street is turning the idea of retail on its head.

Art is at the heart of the architecture of the recently completed HOK-designed shuttle stations serving the Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport. Among the half-dozen works on view, Blue Stratus, a luminous ceiling installation, serves as a bold entrance to this major new point of access to the airport.

In five years’ time, when Barcelona’s largest urban regeneration project is complete, the Plaça de les Glòries Catalanes will be a leafy oasis in the middle of a new business and leisure district.

Studio V Architecture partnered with lighting designer Suzan Tillotson to create a new face for the Empire City Casino at Yonkers Raceway. “Good taste” and “casino design” may seem to be an unlikely pairing.

Lighting designer Gustavo Avilés illuminates the Memorial to the Victims of Violence in Mexico in Mexico City Erecting a monument to casualties of crime is never straightforward, and can be controversial.

Daylight, augmented by an illuminated dome, bathes a baptismal font as reimagined by John Pawson for the St. Moritz Church (circa 1019) in Germany.

When Focus Lighting carved a new office out of a trio of two-story 1910 retail buildings on a busy street in Harlem five years ago, principal Paul Gregory wanted the facility to be more than a functional workspace for ongoing projects.

If it were only a case of “practice what you preach,” the sustainably designed Midwest offices of the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) would offer an impressive enough example, with a new space that exploits daylight and incorporates reclaimed materials.