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Architecture becomes a backdrop for the struggle, real or imagined, between survival and doom.
Densities are shifting, and it may be for the better.
When most of us turn and look at our interiors, there is no quality to be seen, let alone any architecture.
Megaprojects like Sunnyside Yard are a New York staple. That doesn’t mean their track record is clean.
With the demolition of the Union Carbide Building, a huge chunk of the city is headed to the landfill.
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.
Or, how to separate the liberalization of public space from the economic terrorism of gentrification?