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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.

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.

There may be no other block in Manhattan that comes so close to Tim Burton’s Gotham.

The cosmically pop take on Eero Saarinen’s CBS Building you never knew you needed

A covert exchange between a deranged novelist and storied Manhattan architect

Too wide to be a tenement but too narrow to be a courthouse, 538 East 11th Street is one of the last extant examples of a unique type of public building that proliferated during the first decades of the twentieth century.