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Skyline

1/20

Gaud and Country
MIDTOWN — I encountered no protestors making noise, only believers in their own land.
1/15

Plaster Saints
ZOOM — After fifteen months of silence, the World Monuments Fund “calls attention to the dire situation” in Gaza.

2024

10/8

This is Not My Beautiful House
Laguardia Place — Why do people still like this ugly stuff?
10/5

Bless This Press
SoHo — Don’t stop the presses.
10/4

Potemkim Village
East Village — I couldn’t tell what was real and what was fakity-fake-FAKE.
9/15

Go Fig or Go Home
St. George — I came with two goals: eat some locally grown free samples and cheer the coronation of the 2024 Fig King.
9/10

I Want to Believe
Gramercy Park — Theory acted as chaser for magic, dulling the humiliation of “consensual deception.”
8/8

Ladder-Day Saint
Morningside Heights — Sting’s affected holiness—endemic among British pop singers of the Live Aid generation—was a natural fit.
7/31

Cheers for Jeers
Chelsea — “By the time you’ve discussed it with your editor, it’s definitely not stream-of-consciousness.”
7/17

Rhapsody in Zoom
MEATPACKING DISTRICT — Liza Sylvestre described the space of the caption as “crip space,” open to the subjectivity of experience and expanded authorship.
7/8

Nothing to Lose But…
LAGUARDIA PLACE — “The nature of the problem is power-driven and political.”
6/9

Humble Abode
Lower East Side — At their most cynical, these artificial ruins exemplify what urban planners refer to as “retaining neighborhood character.”
6/1

Love Means Nothing
Bed-Stuy — At least in theory, tennis concessions aren’t always about the Benjamins.
5/30

Slow Domicide
Clinton Hill — Grinding everything to a halt daily is the point.
5/21

Mouth-Watering
East Village — A purist waterscape of faraway springs, streams, and reservoirs formed in my mind.
5/20

Spin Doctors
Hudson Yards — It became hard to hear over the consultant speak and self-congratulatory backslapping.
5/19

Portal Combat
Flatiron — “We are all writing the story of the Portal and it’s still being written.”
5/11

And Introducing…
Upper East Side — “It’s like an endurance test,” she said. “If you made it through, we’ll give you a badge.”
5/8

The Pains of Fame
Soho — A who’s who of Dimes Square literati and Canadians who moved to Berlin who moved to New York
5/6

Mise En Abyme
Flatiron — The word that went mostly unsaid at the event was power.
5/4

Oedipus Treks
Chinatown — “I obviously have a complicated relationship with this.”
5/1

Movement Study
Hamilton Heights — Maybe this is why the encampment I saw being built at City College felt so sturdy, less an act of defiance than an acknowledgement of its necessity.
4/19

Dream Houses
East Village — You can’t enter the houses Donna Dennis builds, and for good reason.
4/10

Where Bodies Are Necessary
Morningside Heights — “I wanted to take on something overtly political within architecture, and abortion clinics are one of the most contested spaces in this country.”
4/10

Rally Round
City Hall — “What do we want?” “Housing.” “When do we want it?” “Now!”
4/7

Filling a Void
Lower East Side — “You can’t stop the inevitable.”
4/5

Resist This Space
Morningside Heights — “Given the way the world looks right now, world-building isn’t the task that we want to set for ourselves.”
3/20

Smell a Rat
Chinatown — “Rats—they are builders of the natural environment. They’re architects!”
3/16

Nightclub for Nerds
Prospect Heights — Lecture topics ranged from Palestinian liberation to the ethics of AI; a Marxist theater troupe from Vermont performed twice.
3/13

Portable Landmark
Upper West Side — “Everyone who came to hold the sign and carry it with me through the neighborhoods became part of a collective monument.”
3/12

Off the Rails
Midtown — In place of the transit nerds I had expected to find were aspiring comics and adherents of the funny pages.
3/8

Mind Melting
SOHO — No one I spoke to had heard of him, though googling eventually turned up a website with a Wayback Machine-via-Wix aesthetic that doubles as an archive.
3/4

I’m Readin’ Here
LAGUARDIA PLACE — The Principles of Good Urban Design could become a valuable resource for New Yorkers, if they would take the time to read it.
3/1

Art of Living
LA
Los Angeles — A joyous confluence of art and architecture, activated by a respectful intrusion of movement and sound throughout the (relatively) modest modernist villa.
2/21

Giving Chase
GRAMERCY PARK — The titular chase through the city and the Lincoln Tunnel ends in a New Jersey landfill.
2/16

Meta Comment
Clinton Hill — “We are doubting our own methods; we are doubting our own efficacy; we are engaging in our work because this is what we know how to do.”
2/15

Low-Key Extrovert
LA
Chinatown — “LA has an incredible legacy of design and architecture that’s about its connection to landscape...”
2/14

Root and Branch
MORNINGSIDE HEIGHTS — If, as Walker described, monuments are “furniture” that drift into the civic background of city life, then tributes to the Confederacy are active clarion calls.
2/11

It Follows
FIDI — I had assumed that the hip kids flocking to the slightly dour office building on a Sunday night would all be going to the same destination, but what did I know? “That’s why you shouldn’t just follow people,” my friend said to me.
2/2

Smash The Table
LA
ARTS DISTRICT — “Fuck shit up.”
1/27

Turned Out in Black
COOPER SQUARE — “When we speak of friends we’ve lost, we speak inevitably of ourselves.”
1/26

States of Belonging
Cooper Square — “You can add all the entrance ramps in the world, but I’m not going to come to this museum because the height of the pictures makes it clear you are not thinking of me.”
1/20

Confrontation Is Good
MIDTOWN — “What, if anything, did we do right?”
1/20

Sanctuary Space
KENMARE STREET — “During the day, it is the source of my income. At night, it is my home,” she said in reference to the massage parlor.
1/19

Are We There Yet?
LA
LA BREA — ...a big ask for a crowd who wants to know whether you can park out front after 6 p.m. without getting towed
1/18

Wanted: Good Ideas
LAGUARDIA PLACE — “I like to think of [pools] like the pub, or the park, just a place to meet up,” he said, evoking the kinship of small-town life.
1/16

Cruise Control
RED HOOK — “If we have burning questions that we want to ask, we’re going to put them in the ‘Ideas Bin,’” she said.
1/13

As He Sees It
WEST VILLAGE — Groeneboer said he aimed for the scale of the work to be “the architectural rather than the monumental,” though he might have added infrastructural.
1/11

Intimate as a Freeway
LA
Hollywood — “She had me practice on a chicken breast. I was super nervous.”
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