A four-story, 17,000-square-foot addition to the kindergarten- to eighth-grade Erie Elementary School’s existing quarters in a former Catholic school in Chicago’s Humboldt Park neighborhood.

A single-story, 47,000-square-foot private middle school with a block of classrooms and labs for each of the three grades.

A two-story, 66,580-square-foot public elementary school for 600 students.

Nestled in a 19th-century brick warehouse that once served as a power station for San Francisco’s formerly industrial South of Market district, the Michelin-starred Saison feels more like a communal eatery than a place where cultish foodies drop $400 on an 18-to-20-course dinner.

The Port Sudan Pediatric Center is another project by TAMassociati and Emergency. Together, TAM and Emergency have built five hospitals in Africa that have treated more than 700,000 patients. As Super Typhoon Haiyan was bearing down on the Philippines last week, across the Pacific in San Francisco, the Curry Stone Foundation announced the winners of this year's Curry Stone Design Prize. Now in its sixth year, the award honors architects and designers who devise innovative, often low-tech responses to help strengthen communities faced with natural disaster, political upheaval, or a poverty of resources. At an awards ceremony at the Contemporary

A kingdom notorious for limiting the role of women in the public sphere builds the largest women-only university in the world. A view of the central pedestrian mall on the Academic Campus overlooking the main north gateway. If square footage is any indication of power, Saudi Arabia's female students are gaining ground. The new Princess Nora Bint Abdulrahman University (PNU) in Riyadh, which opened its doors in 2011 and completed its final phase earlier this year, is the largest women-only university in the world. With 32 million square feet and capacity for 60,000 students, the school absorbed three existing campuses

Of the many neoclassical buildings that architect John Galen Howard designed for the University of California, Berkeley, in the early twentieth century, California Memorial Stadium was perhaps the most breathtaking and the most imperiled: from its perch at the base of the Berkeley foothills, the concrete structure—part coliseum, part amphitheater dug into the hillside—offered 73,000 Golden Bears fans sweeping views of San Francisco Bay to the west, but on a site straddling the Hayward Fault.

A design team peels back the layers to ease a 100-year-old former dance hall into the more reserved office life.

Although large population trends, such as the skyrocketing number of seniors in the United States, grab a lot of attention, the nation is also on the cusp of a smaller demographic boom.

Projects from mobile markets to full-on farms are greening America's food deserts. Photo © Will Crocker Students at Tulane's design-build program converted a former New Orleans golf course into the 4-acre Grow Dat Youth Farm, which includes a 6,000-square-foot education center made from shipping containers. In a section of Seattle's Delridge neighborhood, residents who rely on public transportation face a daunting choice: take two buses to get to the nearest grocery store–or trek up a large hill. “What we found was that most people were either going to the grocery store much more infrequently, or they were becoming heavily dependent