Several projects currently underway at the Cambridge, Massachusetts, institution aim to engage with their surroundings.

The central gallery in the 50,000-square-foot Moody Center for the Arts at Houston’s Rice University is used for dance performances and social functions as well as traveling art exhibitions.

An architect designs a fourth low-cost housing project for a longtime client, this one outside the urban core, in Van Nuys, California.

In a nod to its predecessor—the 1932 viaduct, demolished in 2016—a new bridge dubbed the “Ribbon of Light” will feature 10 pairs of concrete arches.

The revitalization of Downtown Los Angeles remains a work in progress, with the area still a patchwork of commercial and residential towers, government and cultural facilities, light manufacturing, and parking lots. Lately, its momentum has turned to its eastern fringe, a once-industrial area now dubbed the Arts District.