James S. Russell

Three glass domes set to rise like cartoon idea bubbles can’t save Amazon.com Inc.’s new Seattle headquarters from terminal dullness.

Where’s the judicial hush -- the cherry wood paneling and shiny brass that dignify the scrutiny of subparagraphs, the balancing of crime and punishment?

Manhattan’s Hudson Yards mega- development is rising again, twice as large as Rockefeller Center and more centrally located than London’s Canary Wharf.

The Museum Tower, a 42-story condominium in Dallas, borrowed cachet from the neighboring Nasher Sculpture Center to brand itself and sell $4 million apartments.

The eastern span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge was supposed to be the crowning glory of the bridge-builder’s art, gracefully echoing the rolling hills surrounding San Francisco Bay.

The idea of auctioning the crown- jewel holdings of the Detroit Institute of Arts looks like a quick fix for a bankrupt city.

Lower Manhattan is turning into an armored security zone.

On a beachfront pummeled by Hurricane Sandy, warped trellises clustered around a chartreuse-painted concession stand wave a cheerful greeting.

Le Corbusier, the architect who wanted to bulldoze much of Paris, was a romantic at heart.

The day after Chinese architect Wang Shu was awarded the $100,000 Pritzker Architecture Prize, the field’s equivalent of a Nobel, in May 2012, he returned to the old Beijing neighborhood where he grew up and found it in the process of being demolished.

Where the gorgeous Hudson Highlands meet the rock-faced Palisades of the lower Hudson River in New York, one of the ugliest bridges in America could get built.

Donald Judd bought 101 Spring Street, an 1870 cast-iron building, in 1968 for $68,000.