#25

Dec 2021/Jan 2022
- Contributors
- Sofia Singler, Kirk Gastinger, Leijia Hanrahan, Amanda Iglesias, & Eva Hagberg
- 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
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.

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.
