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Back to Square One

It’s awfully nice to be reminded that we New Yorkers come from much more than Sweetgreen and Blue Bottle.

Strange Mutations

The pieces titillate and tantalize and taunt, appearing always on the edge of their next mutation.

Bodily Autonomy

The politics of land use can breed feelings of disenfranchisement.

Going for Gold

“Can the Olympics be secured?”

Just for the Night

Time becomes ambiguous.

Lonely on the Sand Bar

I’m not going to complain about a free city beach.

Missing in Action

A piece of metal laying across a wooden pallet may have been one of the missing works, I don’t know.

Up to the Mark

Even the best-laid line, like the most careful of plans, can go its own way.

Meta Manhattan

The video captions exude zen-ish positivity, with only semblances of ironic self-awareness.

Military-Industrial Design Complex

The “good-design-is-good-business” ethos had come under fire.

Mother!

Spare sketches of coiling umbilical cords and swollen nipples

No Place Like It

Discomfort with the American dream is present, too.

Nominal Fix

A wild look at the real-world effects of social media, and the lasting implications of deathbed desires

Sending It

I realized that the building I was in was weird as hell.

Signs and Symptoms

A land of dreams on the brink of turning into nightmares

Fire in His Eyes

The 1980s are just around the corner.
New York Review of Architecture
reviews architecture in New York
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