A slim limestone residential skyscraper in Manhattan's Sutton Place, and architect Thomas Juul-Hansen's first tower. Set among the low-rise pre-war buildings along the East River, its angular metallic crown shifts from gray to gold with the light.

The Pulitzer Arts Foundation is the first freestanding public building in the United States by Tadao Ando, set in St. Louis's Grand Center Arts District. Two parallel concrete volumes are split by a central reflecting pool, and skylights pull shifting daylight deep into the galleries. The result is an architecture tuned for the quiet contemplation of art.

A 15-story mixed-use tower at the south end of downtown Evanston, its residential mass bent into a shallow S-curve that answers both the lake-oriented street grid and the rail line along the site. A three-story brick base holds street retail and screens two levels of parking behind a kinetic wall of suspended aluminum squares.