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California Poetics

A middle-class fable set in gold country.

Chill Zone

Is this mélange giving Hot Girl Western, Italian futurism, or ’60s psychedelia?

Dead Tech

Justice for Zipatone!

Desert Revenant

Here, modesty gives way to heroic fragility.

Hinge Point

The museum’s motto could be, “Walls don’t stay up forever.”

Liquid Screen

The best view is from the escalators.

Pod People

Just like Spanish conquest, this ideal requires water, walls, and exclusivity.

Show Frank the Door

Same as a Honda dealership, just a half step above a 7-Eleven.

Slow Roll

More outdoor gallery and parklets than civic monument

Soft Story

Everyone’s shocked how smoothly it went, given the nasty fight seven years ago over who exactly would pay for it.

Steeped in Hairspray

How can she love a man already beloved by the world?

TikTok Crib

She abandons the toxicity of “curation” in favor of mess and chaos.

Wild Vision

Foreboding words for a ticket stub

You do YOU?

Opinions on YOU-ADU vary.

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.
New York Review of Architecture
reviews architecture in New York
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