Cigarettes built Winston-Salem, North Carolina, just as much as bricks and mortar.

The Chicago Tribune reports that President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama have selected Jackson Park on the city’s south side as the future home for the Obama Presidential Center.

In the popular imagination, Denise Scott Brown is immortalized in a single image from 1966.

When Barack Obama was announced victorious in the 2008 presidential election—the first African American to hold the nation’s highest office—he told the crowd of tens of thousands gathered in Chicago’s Grant Park, “This is your victory.”

Over the last few months, one of the most banal architectural spaces—the public restroom—has been at the forefront of a national civil rights debate.

From the top of Outlook Hill on Governors Island, the 172-acre land mass in New York Harbor, views of New York unfurl in a postcard-worthy panorama: the eye glides from the glossy skyscrapers of Lower Manhattan to the mint-green silhouette of Lady Liberty, across the channel to Brooklyn and the borough’s iconic bridge.