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Asset managers and AI are here for the design media’s copper wire.
In New York City, real estate plays double duty, and apartments turn into art galleries.
Marcel Breuer’s museum on Madison opened our eyes to the sublime. Let’s not look away now.
There’s plenty still unknown about the Lucas Museum, but one thing’s for sure: It’ll look good on the screen.
The organizers behind Los Angeles’s latest Olympics run seem content with standing still.
Is a plan to restore the Sepulveda Basin the equitable climate action LA needs?
ArchiPAC, the AIA’s campaign donation lobbying arm, spreads its dollars to both sides.
The Robert Olnick Pavilion at the Magazzino Italian Art museum in Cold Spring New York, was designed by Alberto Campo Beaza and MQArchitecture. It opened last fall.
Conceptual art and contemporary architecture lack the beguiling allure I find in brazen displays of Americana.
Perfect Days, directed by Wim Wenders, was given a limited North American release in February.
What should we expect from narratives about civic infrastructure?
Old Buildings, New Ideas: A Selective Architectural History of Additions, Adaptations, Reuse and Design Invention by Françoise Astorg Bollack, RIBA Publishing, 176 pp., $48.
Our built heritage should not become fossils enshrined in amber, but fertile, motley canvases on which to build anew.
Beyond Digital: Design and Automation at the End of Modernity by Mario Carpo. MIT Press, 208 pp., $30.
Beyond Digital has an epochal story to tell.
Sleep No More is on at the McKittrick Hotel through May 27.
The cast changes; the choreography stays the same; what holds infinite interest is being there.
Copy Machine Manifestos: Artists Who Make Zines, organized by Branden W. Joseph and Drew Sawyer with Marcelo Gabriel Yáñez and Imani Williford, was on view at the Brooklyn Musuem from November 17, 2023, to March 31, 2024.
Black-and-white xeroxed collages given away for free, or highly-curated, glossy magazine–style publications, or anything in between.
“What would happen if we foregrounded human values in the creation of our systems?”
A crucial part of the Israeli state project is about leaving Palestinians with no physical place to call home.
Think about the climate crisis long enough, and the problem appears so vast as to be unthinkable. And yet, that’s what we must do.
New York is a city of exhibitionists. Documentary filmmaker John Wilson is happy to oblige.
Where ideas hit money and materials and space itself.
If nature takes its revenge but no one is around to witness it, will it be beautiful?
Van Nuys Government Center is a stand-in for downtown democracy flung out to the suburban hinterlands.
Big money and anodyne architecture are poised to take over South Ozone Park’s legendary Aqueduct Racetrack.
The Star Wars–esque modular bathrooms have been kissed by a gentle coat of rust, from their corrugated metal facades to their tinny hand dryers.
There comes a loud, thudding crash.
If there’s a correct path through American Museum of Natural History, it’s totally elusive.
Under the trunk of the tower’s seventy stories, daylight is pretty scarce, and there may be no other block in Manhattan that comes so close to the Tim Burton’s Gotham.
With his lease as his leash, caged in this giant city-cum-dog park, our columnist roams the streets as a stray, guided by unseemly scents.
A self-described Renaissance man wrestles with the legacy of his former Bushwick abode.
We’re attached to a dream we’ve been sold but can’t afford.
Less a menacing monument to imminent doom than a superfluous, almost decadent by-product of capitalism gone awry
306 West 142nd Street—a condo building two blocks from St. Nicholas Park—is no longer a part of my personal stomping grounds. But that doesn’t mean we don’t have beef.
Why would you put someone who didn’t think art was very good in charge of designing an art museum?
A whole lot of people who are not me should have been paying attention a lot sooner.
I. L. Sherman takes the 1 and the proverbial sledgehammer to the Columbia Business School.