In this portfolio, we look at three performing arts projects: Foster + Partners and REX/OMA additions to the Dallas Arts District as well as a Jean Nouvel hall in Copenhagen.

Plus, view past Project Portfolios, with multimedia features including videos and interactive walk-throughs, and links to the people and products behind the projects.

We profile ten projects that make innovative use of existing buildings.

Pictured: Punta della Dogana Contemporary Art Centre / Photo ©Thomas Mayer

Three projects demonstrate exemplary uses of lighting to respond to and define urban space.

Plus much more in our lighting archive.

Pictured: Armani Store 5th Avenue, New York / Photo © Allan Toft

Three firms devise transitions for their clients’ spaces—a Chicago furniture showroom, a Washington, D.C. office, and an Arizona yoga studio—via unique spatial arrangements, material choices, and contextual references, as well as the subtle integration of light and color. 

Pictured: Yoga Deva; Photo © Bill Timmerman

Engineering News-Record, RECORD’s sister publication, recently published a special feature on “Progressive Project Delivery,” including an opinion piece observing that “Architects Move Belatedly to the Light” and another column, “Could Big Change Happen here?” that warns: “new methods of project acquisition [in Britain]… should send shudders down the spines of American architects and engineers.”