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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.

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.
New York Review of Architecture
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