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The dark side of constant illumination

The renovated home of the Frick Collection gives you up, lets you down.

The perils of park conservancies

The petty cause célèbre of Elizabeth Street Garden

  • The MTA redesigned subway map was released in April. It is adapted from the Unimark map (1972) by Massimo Vignelli, Bob Noorda, the Unimark International Corporation, et al., and the Weekender digital map (2011) by Vignelli, Beatriz Cifuentes, and Yoshiki Waterhouse.

Somewhere in the MTA, someone was listening.

  • Severance is created by Dan Erickson and executive produced by Ben Stiller. Seasons 1 and 2 are streaming on Apple TV+.

Saarinen’s caliginous Crystal Palace is the ideal headquarters for Severance’s vision of corporate supremacy.

  • Building Culture: Sixteen Architects on How Museums Are Shaping the Future of Art, Architecture, and Public Space by Julian Rose. Princeton Architectural Press, 368 pp., $35.

According to Julian Rose, art museums today “effectively enjoy a monopoly on aura.”

  • CECOT, El Salvador’s mega-prison, opened in January 2023.

The image of CECOT tempts critique only to anesthetize it.

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Hudson Yards — The fitness regimen couldn’t have been more suited to its venue, since the Vessel is basically a Facetuned StairMaster crossed with a CB2 lighting pendant.
Chelsea — “May I ask,” said Lambert, “if you know an architect of greater warmth than Ric Scofidio?”
Ridgewood — It’s hard not to fall in love with the theater or its bespectacled brigade of developer-defying DIYers, Post-approved accidental urbanists, and code-flouting cinephiles.
Bushwick — “There’s something fascinating about seeing something so big come down.”