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Located in historic Montreal, Scandinave Les Bains Vieux- Montréal is designed to engage the body’s senses through thermal therapy.

In 2007, Cannon Design purchased a 19,000-square-foot powerhouse originally constructed in 1928 and decommissioned in 1980.

Lorcan O’Herlihy and Stephen Kanner refer to the checkerboard wall snaking through their Performance Capture Studio (PCS) north of San Francisco as a “strange loop,” a term used in film and other arts to describe something that breaks down the usual hierarchies of time or space and ends up where it started.

When the 12-person Manhattan architecture firm, Michael Neumann Architecture, had outgrown its office, a converted two-bedroom apartment, they sought a new space with more room that was close to public transportation and provided natural light and fresh air.

The two-story L-shaped offices are located in a glass building that faces New York City’s Central Park.

When the Energy Foundation, a partnership of philan-thropic investors that promotes clean-energy technolo-gies, outgrew its offices in a former military hospital on San Francisco's Presidio, it saw an opportunity to recreate its headquarters not only to accommodate its rapidly growing staff, but also to better reflect its mission.

The mere thought of a high-profile architect designing a shop for a well-known fashion designer raises the old question: Will the container dominate the contained—i.e., the clothes?