A pedestrian bridge gracefully navigates the landscape to connect a popular sporting precinct to the city center.

A restaurant is designed with few impediments to the water view.

On the banks of the Seine, a park transforms a suburban wasteland into a tranquil retreat.

Henry David Thoreau hoped to teach by example. So does the new visitor center near his famous retreat.

A curving glass pavilion mimicks the contours of the landscape.

A master recreates his homeland’s aura in a verdant American setting.

The first phase of a major renovation of the Bibliothèque Nationale Richelieu includes the legendary reading room that Henri Labrouste completed in 1868.

A former building for the Dutch Ministry of Agriculture, Industry and Trade becomes an inviting meeting and work place.

More than a mile of white neon tubing forms Forms in Space . . . by Light (in Time)—a site-specific installation in the Tate's Duveen Galleries.

Wild By Design: Strategies For Creating Life-Enhancing Landscapes, by Margie Ruddick; Gardens of the High Line: Elevating the Nature of Modern Landscapes, by Piet Oudolf and Rick Darke; Bawa: The Sri Lanka Gardens, by David Robsen; The Garden of Peter Marino, by Peter Marino with foreword by Claude Lalanne.

Paul Goldberger reviews Victoria Newhouse’s book on the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center in Athens.

This year marks the 25th anniversary of the Barcelona Olympics and the Seville Expo of 1992.

A mirrored pavilion created for the London Festival of Architecture has an evanescent, ghostly aspect that reflects the Festival’s theme of memory.

There are few places on the planet untouched by man.

A vacation house in the Turks and Caicos Islands takes cues from its waterfront site and the tropical climate.

New architectural acoustics products.

New architectural lighting products. 

Architects created a student hub by adding a six-story-tall central atrium to a new building on campus.

A German tech entrepreneur and investor developed this innovative 20-unit building with wireless connectivity throughout.

Dynamic lighting enlivens an urban space that might otherwise feel deserted or inhospitable.

New laylights provide ambient illumination throughout the galleries of a renovated museum.

An updated lighting control system communicates with every feature in the U.K.'s premier tennis venue.

Designers imbued the two central gathering areas—which have no access to daylight—with a natural sense of the passage of time.

A lighting designer and her team devised a dynamic scheme to engage the employees and foster their creativity and well-being.

The latest LEDs, coupled with sophisticated sensors and wireless technologies, are changing the role of lighting in the built environment.