A Beloved Theater within the Kennedy Center Is Updated to Rave Reviews

Since the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts opened in Washington, D.C., in 1971, it has been in a state of evolution. Designed by famed Architect Edward Durell S ... Read More

An Abandoned Building Once Produced Great Inventions; Now as a Mixed-use Facility, It Has Catalyzed a Downtown’s Restoration

The Dayton Dragons play minor league baseball in Fifth Third Field, which can hold 7,230 baseball lovers, in downtown Dayton, Ohio. For 17 seasons, as fans cheered on their b ... Read More

An 1891 Church in Capitol Hill Is Adapted into Condominiums that Respect and Celebrate the Historic Site and Structure

In 1976, a large segment of Washington D.C.’s Capitol Hill neighborhood was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in recognition of the important architectural a ... Read More

Historic Pier 70 in San Francisco Once Launched State-of-the-Art Ships; Today, It Develops Futuristic Transportation Modes

When Kent Royle began his tenure with Marcy Wong Donn Logan Architects, Berkeley, Calif., 22 years ago, he couldn’t have anticipated the types of buildings for which he would ... Read More

Vacant for 40 years, the Historic Springfield Union Station Now Is a Gateway to the Future

The late architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable once observed, “Nothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more obsolete today, than the railroad station.” While i ... Read More

A YMCA Is Creatively Adapted into Office Space, Adding Vibrancy to Its Neighborhood

A range of building types with unique identities inhabit Washington, D.C.’s historic central business district—from a sequence of townhomes and commercial buildings to the co ... Read More