#32
- Contributors
- Leijia Hanrahan, Allison Hewitt Ward, Kavyashri Cherala, Kevin Rogan, Nicolay Duque-Robayo, Alex Kitnick, Matthew Allen, Enrique Ramirez, Alex Klimoski, Rachel Bondra, Jaffer Kolb, Leslie Kern, Samuel Stein, Kate Wagner, Emily Conklin, Carolyn Bailey, Alex Tell, AJ Artemel, Jonah Coe-Scharff, Michael Nicholas, Nicolas Kemper, Gideon Fink Shapiro, Jesse Dorris, Randa Omar, Phillip Denny, Anjulie Rao, Lyta Gold, Martin C. Pedersen, Ray Hu, Piper French, & Eric Schwartau
- Editor
- Samuel Medina
- Deputy Editor
- Marianela D’Aprile
- Publisher
- Nicolas Kemper
- Editors-at-Large
- Alex Klimoski, Carolyn Bailey, & Phillip Denny
- Art Director
- Laura Coombs
- Digital Director
- Seth Thompson
- Cover Illustrator
- Sean C Suchara
- Illustrators
- Ben Denzer, Darcy Moon, Sean C Suchara, Laura Szyman, & The Hustle Architect
- Skyline Editors
- Anna Gibertini, AJ Artemel, Tess McCann, Sebastián López Cardozo, Osvaldo Delbrey, & Emily Conklin
- Copy Editor
- Don Armstrong
Articles
Why was such an inhospitable environment selected for a major athletic event in the first place? The answer is pretty straightforward: they bought it.
What happened to architectural deconstruction and the radical world it promised?
There comes a loud, thudding crash.
Gentrification isn’t what you think it is. Not exactly.
David Geffen Hall promised to rid New York’s preeminent concert venue of its sonic troubles. But this tale of woe goes far deeper.
In its sixteen-foot-tall cellar, the presses churned out hundreds of thousands of issues a day. A gold-plated dome housing Pulitzer’s private office pierced through its cornice.
What is the student-debt crisis doing to the field of architecture?
A tiny pocket of Chinatown and its discriminating, religion-affirming denizens loom large in the media: a tour.
Like with much of what is spewed out of New York’s over-hyped, PR-industrial complex, a closer look at Central Park reveals a thin green veneer covering a hollow and tired system.
Reviews
Straight Line Crazy, a play by David Hare, ends its run at the Shed on December 18.
A Robert Moses play plays the hits.
The Storefront for Art and Architecture once approached serious topics with buoyancy and a sometimes tongue-in-cheek attitude. What happened?
Bernd and Hilla Becher was on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art from July 15 to November 6.
The Bechers didn’t edit their photos the way contemporary photographers might, making the aesthetic continuity between each frame that much more impressive.
Model Behavior was on view at the Cooper Union from October 4 to November 18.
“Model Behavior” offers an incomplete model of models.
Vacant Spaces NY by Michael Meredith, Hilary Sample, and MOS Architects. Actar, 608 pp., $50
Peeling back the brown paper on Manhattan’s vacant retail spaces
The Constant Future: A Century of the Regional Plan was on view in Grand Central Terminal’s Vanderbilt Hall from October 7 to October 25, 2022.
An RPA-themed exhibition performed the usual lip service to social equity without addressing the inequality baked into prevailing models of development.
The Intimate City: Walking New York by Michael Kimmelman. Penguin Press, 272 pp., $30
If New York was going down, we thought, we wanted to go down with it.
Notes on Downtown: Los Angeles 2007–2022 by Désirée van Hoek, 2023 (self-published).
Downtown LA represents an intentional failure of the built environment.
