#25

Dec 2021/Jan 2022
- Contributors
- Amanda Iglesias, Eva Hagberg, Sofia Singler, Kirk Gastinger, & Leijia Hanrahan
- Publisher
- Nicolas Kemper
- Desk Editors
- Alex Klimoski, Phillip Denny, Carolyn Bailey, Nicolas Kemper, & Samuel Medina
- Art Director
- Laura Coombs
- Digital Director
- Seth Thompson
- Graphic Designer
- Erik Freer
- Skyline Editors
- Marianela D’Aprile, Anna Talley, Jack Murphy, Anna Gibertini, & Tiffany Xu
- Copy Editor
- Benjamin Spier
Articles
These strangely situated places of worship were designed to be read in close proximity and relationship to their neighbors.

I always see buildings through the lens of people—the people who wanted to see them through and the people who had to because there wasn’t anyone else.
After a fire damaged a small Sunset Park church in 1947, the congregation asked Alvar Aalto to lead the redesign. The world-famous architect agreed, and then the drawings disappeared.
Essay
New York’s new observatories offer an exalted vision of the self. It’s an ugly image.