Parisian architect and urbanist Odile Decq contends that black, not white, is the "truly neutral" color for a museum. At the Museo D'Arte Contemporanea Roma (MACRO), where she inserted the new program into an early-20th century Peroni beer factory, dark surfaces shroud the red polygon that houses...

Yoshiharu Tsukamoto is one half of Atelier Bow-Wow, the Tokyo-based firm he founded with his partner Momoyo Kaijima in 1992. Whether working on a micro scale, as with their residential projects that transform the spatial constraints of congested sites into opportunities for domestic invention,...

With the [Park Avenue] Armory, New York City is finally getting the kind of cultural space that just a handful of other cities have," noted the New York Times in 2011. Like the Arsenale in Venice or the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern in London, the voluminous Upper East Side drill hall can uniquely...