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Keeping up appearances in brownstone Brooklyn

Retrofuturism forecloses the true potential of the world to come.

Buckminster Fuller thought he had found the shape of utopia. What went wrong?

Or, how to separate the liberalization of public space from the economic terrorism of gentrification?

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.

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.

Lairs are kingdoms for one, perfectly designed to each villain’s dystopian vision. Or utopian, depending on how you slice it.

Prior Art trades in architectural alembics: spaces that distill, refine, and elucidate Christensen’s crucial triad: “creativity, novelty, and property.”

Vivian Maier didn’t aim to exhaustively catalog her surroundings. What her work declares is that the ordinary cannot be exhausted.

Political art so often feels like a wish; Spatializing Reproductive Justice represented something like a real plan.

“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.

Once a sparkling fixture of New York high society, the Plaza Hotel has lost its fizz.

A puzzling example of recreation architecture.

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.

Suddenly, the beaver cosplay is feeling very real.

Evading the question of fare evasion

Binging on mindfulness

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.

The higher the New York observatory experience climbs, the dumber it gets.

New York University’s John A. Paulson Center announces the triumph of a new civilization: thrusting, dismissive, cruel.

Less a menacing monument to imminent doom than a superfluous, almost decadent by-product of capitalism gone awry

Bringing down the Mouse