Considering the relationship between architecture and contemporary crises, the international exhibition ends up a cacophonous if often fascinating jumble.

The new Wanlass Center for Art Education and Research makes clever, elegant use of its compact footprint.

Designed by Marlon Blackwell Architects, the new home of Alice Walton’s institute in Arkansas is a free-form structure sensitive to its surroundings and the needs of people.

Following a 2020 fire that destroyed the original Doris Duke Theatre, the Massachusetts dance center has rebuilt it with an intimate, contemporary design that departs from the aesthetic of the campus without forsaking it.

With the conclusion of a $30 million, 24,000-square-foot addition to its studio, the Chrysler Museum of Art offers a space of both making and teaching, shedding light on the process of glassblowing and amplifying the grandeur of its expansive collection of some 10,000 objects in the medium.

Annabelle Selldorf’s renovations of the Sainsbury Wing allow it to comfortably accommodate more visitors while better integrating it with the rest of the London museum, whose superb collection has been thoughtfully rehung.

With the conclusion of a $380 million restoration campaign, the St. Louis park has finally achieved continuity between the Old Courthouse—newly renovated—and the architect’s towering arch.

The all-season facility, which will operate as both skating rink and swimming pool, is an elegant enhancement of the park’s northern end.

Remodeled by Selldorf Architects, the New York museum has gained space and free-flowing paths of movement through a series of humble but imaginative interventions.

The Wyoming museum opened last year in a building that elegantly evokes the place’s past and the prominence of nature.

Following an enormous, expensive restoration effort after the devastating 2019 fire, the Paris cathedral has reopened to the world, at once recognizably itself and possessed of a startling new vibrancy.

Many of the year’s most successful projects—including New York’s Far Rockaway Library and the expansion of Florida’s Marie Selby Botanical Gardens—struck pleasingly human notes for all their impressive scale.

First opened by Pierre S. du Pont, the Pennsylvania botanical gardens recently completed a $250 million expansion that is both elegantly contemporary and respectful of the campus’s historic character.

An architecture exhibition at the National Building Museum focuses on the stolid, monumental government buildings from Brutalism’s heyday, reminding us of their history and imagining how they might be modified.

The museum stages the first major exhibition on the American architect, offering a new view of the man most famous for his hulking concrete buildings.

Thanks to Oslo’s Snøhetta architecture firm, a bright, welcoming addition to the Queens Public Library system in Far Rockaway, N.Y., combines bold forms and dazzling hues.

The newly restored building is a Roman-inspired testament to the Motor City’s endurance and a catalyst for its rebirth.

The new museum at Pennsylvania State University is a more mature building than its Postmodern predecessor, but despite high marks for its handsome, ample spaces its out-of-the-way location is a failing.

The newly renovated Florida gardens now have a distinct architectural character, highlighting the beauty and interconnectedness of the natural world.

The new building at the University of Notre Dame, created by Robert A.M. Stern Architects, boldly embraces tradition but missteps in matters of scale and materials.