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Minecraft yearns for an eschatology that could give the metaverse meaning.
The renovated home of the Frick Collection gives you up, lets you down.
Can architecture be remade in venture capital’s image?
Twentieth Century Architects and Victorian Architects, published by various authors beginning in 2009. RIBA Books/Liverpool University Press/Historic England, $34.
Everywhere ought to have a series like this.
Emergent City, directed by Kelly Anderson and Jay Arthur Sterrenberg, was on at DCTV’s Firehouse Cinema from April 25 through May 18, 2025.
Five years on from its conclusion, the fight over Industry City continues to have repercussions in New York’s political firmament.
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.
Laura Owens was on view at Matthew Marks Gallery from February 14 to April 19, 2025.
Laura Owens has long held an interest in the possibilities of installation. But what did she do with that here?
Joyspace by Adam Rolston. Pacific, 112 pp., $35.
This is diet Debord, a sort of scrollable Situationism delivered through Canva slides with the nasty political economy taken off.
CECOT, El Salvador’s mega-prison, opened in January 2023.
The image of CECOT tempts critique only to anesthetize it.
“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?
Somehow, heartbreak feels good in a place like this.
Maligned and condemned, the Port Authority Bus Terminal will be missed after it’s gone.
Once a sparkling fixture of New York high society, the Plaza Hotel has lost its fizz.
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.
On January 5, Doctor Kathy Hochul finally gave New York its gogo juice, prescribing a bitter pill known as congestion pricing to clear its clogged passages and stimulate its mass transit system.
Suddenly, the beaver cosplay is feeling very real.
To have Jane Jacobs, we need to go beyond Jane Jacobs.
The Tenement Museum memorializes working-class families even as it evicts them.
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.
The Brooklyn Tower is less a menacing monument to imminent doom than a superfluous by-product of capitalism gone awry.
Archforum, which continues our tradition of shamelessly purloining the mastheads and editorial savior faire of long-out-of-print design publications (Architectural Forum, 1917–74.), aims to convene consequential voices in architecture, culture, technology, and politics on the issues of the day.
