Reinventing medieval typologies, a thoughtfully detailed building anchors a new development in England.

From a futuristic museum in California to the upgrade of a historic soccer stadium in the United Kingdom, an international roster of renowned architects is continuing to make headway on projects across the globe.

For nine days in September, when the London Design Festival’s distinctive red signage appears at scores of event locations, the remarkable breadth of the U.K.’s design industry is made visible.

The Whitworth Gallery, in England’s booming second city, Manchester, is a cultural institution that took a walk in the park back in 1889—it was the first English art museum to adopt a parkland rather than urban setting.

The New Bodleian Library in the historic center of Oxford had for years been so unfashionable as to be all but invisible. Designed in the mid-1930s by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott (1880–1960) in a stripped-down classical style, and not completed until 1946, it was already a throwback at a time when modernism was rising.