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Architecture

  1. rendering judgment
    Manhattan’s Future Jail Looks a Lot Like a Corporate HQCubicles you really don’t want to inhabit.
    By Justin Davidson
  2. street view
    Daniel Libeskind Tries His Hand at Affordable HousingThe Atrium, in Bedford-Stuyvesant, is a fine proof-of-concept, but does it scale?
    By Justin Davidson
  3. los angeles wildfires
    Rebuilding After FireIt’s not enough to fireproof a single home. How can a community raise its odds of survival?
    By Justin Davidson
  4. los angeles wildfires
    What’s Burned DownJoshua Jackson’s home, a Richard Neutra house in the Palisades. A running list of celebrity homes and architectural institutions lost.
    By Kim Velsey and Clio Chang
  5. street view
    Imagining a City of WoodMass timber could revolutionize construction, if only New York would embrace it. We commissioned four projects to show what it can do.
    By Justin Davidson
  6. street view
    Architecture Is an Act of Vengeance in The BrutalistThe film uses the field as a metaphor within a metaphor about trauma and mediocrity. The result is murk.
    By Justin Davidson
  7. chapters
    Can Architects Build for Rebuilding?Good planning for the future means thinking about a structure’s long-term flexibility before it goes up.
    By Justin Davidson
  8. street view
    The Met’s Contemporary-Art Wing Will Be Elegant and TameA first look at Frida Escobedo’s forthcoming addition.
    By Justin Davidson
  9. street view
    Disney’s New Downtown Headquarters Is All New YorkThere’s nothing goofy about it.
    By Justin Davidson
  10. celebrity real estate
    The Same Guy Who Bought Kanye’s Malibu Mansion Wants Diddy’sBo Belmont offered half the listed price.
    By Clio Chang
  11. street view
    The History of the Modern Office in One BuildingThe old MetLife complex on Madison Square, once a hive of paper-pushing clerks, gains a tall addition that’s all light and air.
    By Justin Davidson
  12. scams
    My Monster TenantHe moved into our Noho loft — then tore out most of the interior walls. Turns out it wasn’t his first impromptu demolition.
    By Suzanne Seggerman
  13. street view
    Cross Your Fingers for the Whitney’s Breuer BuildingThe interior’s not landmarked, and Herzog & de Meuron are going in to renovate.
    By Justin Davidson
  14. photography
    Concrete Behemoths in the Morning LightOwen Davies’s photographs of beige brutalism find beauty in these divisive landmarks.
    By Christopher Bonanos
    Photographs by Owen Davies
  15. street view
    The Vessel, Newly Closed-In, Is Open AgainSafer, surely, but still as dumb an attraction as ever.
    By Justin Davidson
  16. chapters
    Why Do Concert Halls Still Matter?An antique architectural form that continues to resonate.
    By Justin Davidson
  17. street view
    The Two Paul RudolphsThe Met’s retrospective reveals the architect’s vision and optimism — and his supreme arrogance.
    By Justin Davidson
  18. street view
    Larry Silverstein Outlasted EveryoneThere’s a lot of see-I-was-right-ness in his new memoir about rebuilding the World Trade Center — and often he was.
    By Justin Davidson
  19. environment
    How a Floating Pool in the East River Would Actually WorkA scientist explains how the Plus Pool would make the East River clean enough to swim in.
    By Clio Chang
  20. chapters
    Shigeru Ban’s Dazzling Architecture of TimeThe architect’s approach (and choice of materials) embraces simplicity and change.
    By Philip Jodidio
    Introduction by Justin Davidson
  21. street view
    What Did Brooklyn Bridge Park Get So Right?Nearly 20 years after we broke ground, it’s more impressive than ever.
    By Justin Davidson
  22. buy it for the architecture
    A Pinwheel House From a Frank Lloyd Wright DiscipleThe New Canaan four-bedroom also has stained-glass ceilings and lots of built-in seating.
    By Kim Velsey
  23. street view
    Inside the Bizarre Architectural Mind of Frederick KieslerSpinning wraparound bookshelves, continually evolving half-underground houses: A show at the Jewish Museum celebrates an eccentric visionary.
    By Justin Davidson
  24. rendering judgment
    Port Authority Plus a MicroparkThe newest renderings of the remade bus terminal are slightly less Apple Store, too.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  25. on set
    The Uncanny New York City of MegalopolisFrancis Ford Coppola’s New Rome is an anarchic stream of 40 years’ thinking about the city.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  26. street view
    The Low-Key Inventiveness of SO-IL’s Apartment BuildingsThree midsize Brooklyn projects display unusual, flexible architectural thinking.
    By Justin Davidson
  27. encounter
    Eva Alt, Day in a Life
    Eva Alt Is Selling DowntownThe dancer turned broker has managed the impossible: making it cool to be a real-estate agent.
    By Bridget Read
  28. street view
    JAPAN-ARCHITECTURE-CULTURE-LIFESTYLE-TOILETS
    Tokyo’s Public Toilets Will Leave New Yorkers SobbingWith civic envy and political fury.
    By Justin Davidson
  29. on set
    Curb Your Enthusiasm - 2000
    Good-bye to the Enduringly Beige Interiors of Curb Your EnthusiasmThrough 12 seasons, Larry stuck with what he liked: wrought iron, stone, an overstuffed couch.
    By Gracie Hadland
  30. street view
    Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky Was More Than Her Hyperorganized KitchenA new show devoted to the Austrian architect reveals her idealism and ambition.
    By Justin Davidson
  31. street view
    The Googleplex Is GrowingGoogle’s new St. John’s Terminal headquarters, meant to lure workers back to the office, is a city within a building.
    By Justin Davidson
  32. street view
    The Showman Becomes the RealistBjarke Ingels and the limitations of building in New York.
    By Justin Davidson
  33. preservation watch
    How the Nivola Horses Got Their Hooves BackAll 18 modernist sculptures have been reinstalled in an Upper West Side plaza.
    By Clio Chang
  34. street view
    Our Radical, Practical NYCHA MakeoverFor Curbed, Peterson Rich’s architects propose balconies, energy efficiency, and adding mixed-income low-rises.
    By Justin Davidson
  35. street view
    The New Jersey Hindu Temple Covered With 10,000 SculpturesMarble elephants, ample parking, and a federal investigation into how it all got built.
    By Justin Davidson
  36. street view
    Thomas Heatherwick Thinks Nearly All New Buildings Are BoringA critique of his critique.
    By Justin Davidson
  37. architecture
    What Was Trump Tower?His co-star, his political launch pad, his longest-term companion.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  38. street view
    Louis Armstrong’s Wonderful World Was in QueensA museum to a cultural legend emphasizes his unpretentious life at home.
    By Justin Davidson
  39. from the archives
    The New Life Out There: Electro-graphic ArchitectureTom Wolfe on the all-American vernacular art of the neon sign.
    By Tom Wolfe
  40. street view
    Need Housing? Need a Rail Line? Stack Them Up.Studio V’s proposal for a Borough Park rail cut.
    By Justin Davidson
  41. architecture
    Which Bridge on Olivia Rodrigo’s Guts Packs the Biggest Punch?Like the former theater kid she is, Rodrigo knows the dramatic value of a third-act twist.
    By Justin Curto
  42. architecture
    Inside the City’s Gleaming New Performance CubeThe Perelman Performing Arts Center is a standout at the reconstructed World Trade Center site. Will people come?
    By Justin Davidson
  43. architecture
    The Last Painted Doors of RidgewoodFaux wood graining is an architectural quirk of the neighborhood. And a dying trade.
    By Clio Chang
  44. street view
    The Two Newest Luxury Towers Are a MoodCharcoal and bronze dominate at Brooklyn’s tallest building and Adjaye’s latest.
    By Justin Davidson
  45. city people
    What Dan Doctoroff BuiltUnder Mayor Bloomberg, the power broker remade the city with astonishing speed. Now, as New York is again mired in crisis, he faces his own.
    By Justin Davidson
  46. street view
    Reconsidering the Grand Civic StaircaseAt Steven Holl’s Hunters Point Library and across the city, a familiar architectural gesture has become a trap.
    By Justin Davidson
  47. crime
    The Gilgo Beach Murder Suspect Was a Busy New York ArchitectRex Heuermann’s clients included Cipriani, Target, and Nike.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  48. street view
    David Adjaye, Falling StarchitectCelebrity architects are propped up by a hive of workers. His may undo him.
    By Justin Davidson
  49. rendering judgment
    262 Fifth Is the Skinny di Tutti SkinniesJust 26 apartments in an 860-foot tower.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  50. urbanism
    Designing Cop CityWhat the evolution of the tactical village, from Riotsville to Atlanta, reveals about policing.
    By Diana Budds
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