Contents: Some scattered thoughts instead of a foreword / Thom Mayne -- University of Cincinnati Campus Recreation Center: weaving as a means for establishing flow -- NOAA SatelliteOperations Facility: architectural components of body and brain -- Herald-Examiner Residential Tower: define the separation of spaces within units -- Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics: using the old as a generative source -- Alaska State Capitol: a physical manifestation of democracy -- Giant campus: emerging organically from complexity -- Burj Al Maydan: beyond the iconic tower to reconnect -- Continuities of the incomplete: connected isolation, a unique panorama -- University of Chicago Center for Creative and Performing Arts: a landmark of confluence -- Wayne Lyman Morse United States Courthouse: repositioning the proceedings of business as usual -- New Orleans National Jazz Center: optimistic vision for a new civic core -- Hypo Alpe-Adria Bank: incorporating systems of eccentricity -- San Francisco Federal Building: building the models of our civic sustainability -- Eli andEdythe Broad Art Museum: hybridized museum of congregation-- Madrid Public Housing: a typology of porosity to realize social ideals -- Phare Tower: synthesizing idiosyncrasies to mend a site.