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With Countryside, The Future, Rem Koolhaas and the Guggenheim offer a foie-gras approach of feeding the arts establishment uncomfortable, seemingly indigestible content.

With the demolition of the Union Carbide Building, a huge chunk of the city is headed to the landfill.

One of the last extant examples of a unique type of public building

A predilection for Palladio, for Russian Orthodox churches, for vernacular architecture, for medieval urbanism, for counterculture development…

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