The tenth 21c Museum Hotel occupies a 1926 former YMCA on Locust Street, pairing a boutique hotel with public contemporary art galleries. The restoration kept the wood paneled lounges, billiard room, and basement lap pool with its surviving Swim for Life mosaic, alongside the Idol Wolf restaurant.

The Chicago Park District relocated from downtown to a former railyard in Brighton Park. A two-story circular building, bisected by a path and clad in aluminum sunscreens. Interior brick walls use salvaged Chicago common brick in a pixelated relief pattern.

Shelby Farms Park covers 4,500 acres on the eastern edge of Memphis, among the largest urban parks in the country, on former penal farm land. A long aluminum-wrapped visitor center anchors the grounds, with an event pavilion and a boathouse across the water.

A mixed-use housing development on former industrial land in St. Louis's Mill Creek Valley. Its corrugated metal skin, drawn from the surrounding factory buildings, shifts in tone as light moves across it. A second-floor amenity deck holds a heated pool, an ovoid lawn, and outdoor dining.

Home of St. Louis CITY SC, Energizer Park anchors the western end of the Gateway Mall on land that once held a freeway off-ramp. Its pitch sits forty feet below grade, drawing every seat close to the action beneath a reflective canopy that frames the Gateway Arch.

The Pulitzer Arts Foundation is the first freestanding public building in the United States by Tadao Ando, in St. Louis's Grand Center Arts District. Two parallel concrete volumes are split by a central reflecting pool, and skylights draw daylight into the galleries.

4220 Duncan is a mixed-use office and lab building in the Cortex Innovation Community, anchored by Microsoft and the Cambridge Innovation Center. The facade carries a custom polychromatic finish that shifts in changing light.

A 15-story mixed-use tower at the south end of downtown Evanston, its residential mass bent into a shallow S-curve shaped by the street grid and the rail line. A three-story brick base holds street retail and a planted green roof terrace, with the tower lifted above on slender columns.

Sassafras Cafe is the main restaurant at the Missouri Botanical Garden. The daylit dining room opens to a tree-lined patio. Nine panels of pressed plant specimens set in glass and resin divide the seating areas, alongside a communal oak bench.

The Saint Louis Art Museum East Building expands the 1904 museum in Forest Park, a low pavilion clad in dark polished concrete cast with Missouri and Wisconsin river aggregates. Behind it, a sculpture garden and river birch allées display modern works against Cass Gilbert's original.

A luxury residential tower overlooking Forest Park where nearly every unit is a corner unit. The floor plate rotates and mirrors a single unit around a central core into an oak-leaf footprint. Stacked tiers splay outward, shading interiors from summer sun while admitting low winter light.