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Architecturally, the Vessel is barren; it’s steel and copper and stone. It looks like shearing metal sounds.

Bjarke Ingels’s further adventures in technological determinism

We’re accustomed to thinking about the US-Mexico border as an abstraction. A new book tries to find intimacy in it.

US bombs, Yemeni buildings, and Saudi urbicide


Recovering a forgotten form of critical practice through reading.

Walking toward its rising and falling wall, the memorial appears understated, generously inviting life to register against it.

Postmodernism is back, though not in the way that some architects would have liked.

Not all cities have private bike share systems, but New York’s proudly bears the logo of a bank.

A Discussion of the possible & necessary victory of the ground plane
The NYPD has had an affinity for the militaristic since its inception.


A covert exchange between a deranged novelist and storied Manhattan architect

A microcosm of the temporary architectural response to this moment of viral crisis.