Stories.

On a grey morning on Plac Piłsudski, the scaffolding tells you nothing about what is being built. The raw brick walls rising on the western edge of the square could be a new development anywhere in central Warsaw — ex…

The drawings arrive at the Colegio Oficial de Arquitectos de Madrid identified only by a word. Not a studio name, not a logo, not the practice's carefully built portfolio — just a lema, an alphanumeric codeword chosen…

On a narrow street in Arroios, a four-storey building waits for a decision. Its facade is dressed in blue-and-white azulejos — the glazed ceramic tiles that have skinned Lisbon's buildings for the better part of two c…