Inspired by interactions from the country's colonial past, the indigenous Australian artist and the award-winning firm collaboratively design a shaded plaza and community center.

Designed by VenhoevenCS, IJboulevard at Amsterdam Central Station creates space for life to flourish above and below the surface.

In a small industrial town, a striking brick-clad municipal building pays equal respect to civil servants and the public.

Sou Fujimoto builds a community hub using familiar forms for a Japanese town devastated by the 2011 earthquake and Tsunami.

A pan-European collective of architecture firms will update the existing building with a diaphanous skin and "green agora" on the roof.

For nearly 90 years, each issue of RECORD has been anchored by a building-type study, but one—devoted to civic uses—elicits more questions in the selection process than any other.

This month, RECORD explores civic architecture across a variety of building types, ranging from a Holocaust memorial in Milan to a hockey arena in Zurich.

A memorial in Milan’s central station retraces the journey many took to Nazi extermination camps.

The well-being of first responders shapes the design of a fire station in a fast-growing Cedar Rapids suburb.