In Helsinki’s former docklands, Lahdelma & Mahlamäki builds loftlike government offices.

Patano Studio Architecture reimagines a run-down observatory in Washington to reflect its celestial purpose.

Marble Fairbanks’ Greenpoint Library and Environmental Education Center in Brooklyn aims to engage a community stung by industrial neglect.

Beyond Covid lies the opportunity to rebuild the civic realm in innovative ways around infrastructure, transportation, housing, health care, and public space—and in the process, seriously address equity, access, and sustainability.

LEVER creates a headquarters for a Portland, Oregon, foundation committed to social equity.

SHoP designs a veterans center at Syracuse University, connecting town and gown.

Looking to its past and its future, Berlin continues to reshape public space with new and old architecture.

For a library in Provence, Dominique Coulon incorporates the site’s extraordinary pre-existing conditions.

Rethinking the original Modernist design brings an aging D.C. icon into the present with an eye toward the future.

An unusual government building in India embraces local culture and traditional crafts.