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Twice as Bright

His work bursts with an exuberance that, like us, is not designed to last.

WE ♥ NYC

Seen on the subway, it’s comparatively a welcome respite from whatever direct-to-consumer hair loss company might’ve taken up the space instead.

WE ♥ NYC

Nothing is more New York than hating how the city has changed.

Y2Koolhaas

For all his “Junkspace” anti-consumerist rhetoric, Rem Koolhaas is phenomenally good at making shopping look fun.

Take It Outside

Architecture is a succubus that extracts everything it can.

About Faces

Finally, an art exhibition mercifully devoid of the weight of being a serious artist

Canada Fancy

A distinctly Canadian strain of parsimony

False Light Case

Trompe l’oeil—a crass parlor trick or a great advance in Western art?

Fit for a Legend

Pelé’s sky-high forever home conforms to a strict football theme.

It Ain’t Easy Bein’ Green

A green front yard won’t save you, but it’s still better than concrete.

Natural’s Not in It

There’s something astoundingly ironic about using cutting-edge technology to tell a story of native wisdom triumphing over techno-industrial will.

On the Wrong Path

If you need more prairie in your life, go outside.

Sounds of Silence

The incidental noise of domestic work is both mute and shackling.

Technical Difficulties

Hope for revolutionary agency is invested in the fragmented forms of another time.

The Laughter that Binds

Without a Party, what is left other than trolling Dezeen?

A Well-Paved Road

A good-intentioned book channels a torrent of research and riffs into galaxy-brain takes.
New York Review of Architecture
reviews architecture in New York
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