Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum, Lafayette, La.
Eskew+Dumez+Ripple
The new Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum, a lustrous steel-and-glass structure, is situated adjacent to the University of Louisiana’s original museum, a 1960s-era building modeled after antebellum plantation homes.

Photo © Timothy Hursley

l.a.Eyeworks Showroom, Los Angeles
Neil M. Denari Architects
Like most fashions, eyeglass styles come and go. l.a.Eyeworks, a retailer that specializes in cutting-edge eyewear, wanted a showroom that could successfully accommodate ever-changing trends while providing the retailer with a fixed spatial identity.

Photo © Benny Chan/Fotoworks

Jigsaw, Los Angeles
Pugh+Scarpa Architects
Film editing requires small, dark rooms free from distraction—paradoxically, a film-editing company also needs a stimulating work space to foster social interaction among employees and with clients. The architect succeeded in meeting both challenges inside a featureless, 5,000-square-foot warehouse.

Photo © Marvin Rand

AM International, London
Elliott + Associates Architects
or its regional headquarters in London, Ackerman McQueen International, a U.S.-based advertising agency, wanted an office that its clients could easily reconfigure.

Photo © Robert Shimer/Hedrich Blessing

Elie Tahari Fashion Design Office and Warehouse, Millburn, N.J.
Voorsanger Architects
he client, a fashion designer, wanted to transform an office building located amid a drab landscape of factories and parking lots.

Photo © Elizabeth Felicella

Chanel, rue Cambon, Paris.
Peter Marino + Associates Architects; Vigneron Architects (associate architect)
An expansion and redesign of Coco Chanel’s original boutique, the store now encompasses 8,000 square feet in three adjoining buildings.

Photo © Vincent Knapp

East End Temple, New York City.
BKSK Architects
Originally designed by Richard Morris Hunt, the building was erected as a private residence in 1883.

Photo © Jonathan Wallen

Pavilion in the Sky, London.
Peter Marino + Associates Architects
The architect designed this 4,800-square-foot residential penthouse for a collector of Modern art. Conceived of as a "pavilion in the sky,” the glass-enclosed box represents an exploration of geometry and precious materials.

Photo © J.P. Masclet

James Stewart Centre for Mathematics, Hamilton, Ontario
Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects
Opened in 1929 to house McMaster University’s science department, this neo-Gothic building was converted into a student center in the 1960s. [RECORD, September 2004, page 148] Additional web coverage.

Photo © Tom Arban Photography

Boys Club of Sioux City, Sioux City, Iowa
Randy Brown Architects
The Boys Club wanted to freshen the look of its building, a former armory that it has occupied since the 1950s; boys who use the club for recreation wanted "cool stuff." [RECORD, December 1997, page 60]

Photo © Assassi Productions

Hyde Park Bank, Chicago
Florian Architects
Over the years since the building opened in 1929, Hyde Park Bank’s main hall was partitioned into smaller spaces, defined by dark, banal materials that obscured its rich original finishes. [RECORD, March 2005, page 136] Additional web coverage.

Photo © Karant Associates