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

“Reverse the arrows.”

Cesar was more of a conductor than a composer.

“Hedonism in the face of global catastrophe?”

The OMA towers are early to the party.

History—commercially reproduced as a spatialized representation.

Maybe critics should place less value on the aesthetics of New York living, and more on the qualities that make the many ordinary buildings of yore happy homes for thousands today.

“People may say, ‘We don’t like it,’ but at least it is a project that people’s eyes focus on and they say, ‘Wow, that’s interesting.’”

The vote ultimately comes down to Chin and de Blasio.

Scaffolding is visceral and fluid, not just permanent, but possibly immortal.

A speculative tale about a city’s relationship with ghosts

Re-engaging the quotidian needs and utopian aspirations of modernism’s origins.

A puzzling example of recreation architecture.

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

Zachary Violette’s insistence on the relevance of the norm over the exception leads to a more synchronic mode of analysis.

Open fire hydrants have been symbolic of summers in the city since the Great Heat wave of 1894.