When the nearly 20-acre cultural and civic campus opens on Chicago’s South Side this spring, art will do much of the talking. Among the newly announced commissions for the Obama Presidential Center is ...

Other work by architect: Rows of houses in Sunset Park, flats buildings on 3rd St. Park Slope, and buildings in Philadelphia The story: Nostrand Avenue, at Gates Avenue used to be one of Bedford’s ...

The story: I’ve always liked this group of houses. Back in the mid-’80s I used to take the Gates Avenue bus to work often, when I worked in Clinton Hill, and would pass these houses almost every day.

WILLIAMSBURG, Va. — Former U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates will have an academic building named after him at William & Mary, the university in Virginia where he holds the honorary position of ...