With just one striking design move, an ambitious cultural building in New York lets the creative activity it fosters make all the noise.

In California, an innovative midcentury structure gets long-overdue recognition—and an upgrade.

David Rockwell reimagines a Broadway landmark and production revival for Second Stage Theater in New York.

Smiljan Radic's beacon-like regional theater in Chile is a concrete structure wrapped as lightly as a tent.

A striking new concert hall on Mexico's coast transforms a town's profile.

The Spanish firm pays respect to nature by jolting it with the surreal.

Gehry’s jewel of a concert hall in Berlin was designed to transcend differences.

The gift of a splendid complex and public park creates an oasis for the Greek people in austere times.

The CKK Jordanki concert hall emerges like an outcrop of weathered rock from an urban park in Toruń, in northern Poland. Its Spanish architect, Fernando Menis, has yoked such imagery to local architectural references and technical ingenuity to establish a strong character for the building while deferring to its sensitive setting on the edge of the medieval Old Town.