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We can’t wait around for a spark, Mike Davis always seemed to be saying.
From 1900 to 1972, New York City built seventy-seven public pools. Since 1972, the city has completed just five. What happened?
Whether minimalist or maximalist, the designer-y vessels of luxe living are little but financial instruments.
In wishing to communicate the totality of Blackness, Reconstructions forgoes the tools and signifiers of conventional architectural production in favor of world building.
Unlike the trains now operating at austerity levels of service, Moynihan Train Hall has arrived exactly on time, ready to uplift.
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