A city in Belgium aspires to make it onto Europe's cultural map with an energetic building that ramps up the architectural volume. Once a medieval city on a hill in the French-speaking part of Belgium, Mons later became a center of heavy industry.

Dresden is a place of ghosts and unease, the site of the most controversial and devastating series of Allied bombing raids of World War II.

A house is not a museum. And the clients for a 3,000-square-foot weekend retreat in Connecticut clearly knew that.

Lighting designers favor form over flash for CityCenter's diverse set of buildings.

Daniel Libeskind, by happenstance or design, has practically become the official architect of Jewish museums worldwide, but that trajectory was near its beginning when he received the commission, in 1998, for San Francisco’s Contemporary Jewish Museum (CJM).

The building relies not only on the sharp-edged diagonals—sometimes a shortcut to dynamism and architectural self-assertion—that have been a mainstay in Libeskind’s work, but also on abundant calligraphic symbols, some more convincing than others.