Alamo Heights High School students enrolled in the early college program tour St. Phillip's College on Wednesday as part of the Summer Bridge orientation week. Credit: Brenda Bazán / San Antonio ...

OTTAWA — Sima Acan took a seat Monday afternoon inside a room with 14 of her rookie colleagues for the first of a flurry of orientation sessions for her new job as a member of Parliament.

The teaching spaces surround places of congregation and are linked to a central stair arrangement and joining bridge. Orientation and connections are carefully orchestrated around the activities of ...