What MoMA’s African Architecture Show Argues About Modernism
Rinaldo Olivieri’s sort-of high-rise La Pyramide was a landmark of economic optimism in downtown Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, when…
New York’s Flooding Defenses Are Finally Coming Into View
Two images juxtaposed: Flooding in Battery Park City during Superstorm Sandy in 2012, and a present-day image of…
The Hyperflexible Theater And Its Limits
Photo: Andy Henderson, Evan Zimmerman, Iwan Baan, Matthew Murphy, Whitney Browne Actors have broken the fourth wall since…
Why Williamsburg Is So Different From Hunter’s Point South
Photo: © SWA Group/David Lloyd (Hunter’s Point South); Radhika Chalasani (Domino) A quarter-century ago, when the Twin Towers…
Testing Colorful, New Sidewalk Sheds in New York City
If there’s one thing that current and previous mayors can agree on, it’s that they hate sidewalk sheds,…
Trump Might Deliver the Penn Station We’ve Been Waiting For
The new Penn Station faces Eighth Avenue with a grand ceremonial façade … Photo: PAU At last! You…
The Met Costume Institute Gets a Grand Upgrade
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is growing without getting any bigger. Its future Tang Wing will poke not…
The Greatest Gothic Cathedrals Began on Parchment
The oldest surviving architectural drawings are of Strasbourg Cathedral, which was begun around 1250, but this façade elevation…
An Architectural Fantasy League for New York City
Photo-Illustration: Curbed; Photos: AIDIA, Getty, Hiroshi Nakamura & NAP, Kéré Architecture, For a global city, New York can…
The New Museum’s Playful New Addition by OMA
Photo: Courtesy New Museum. Photo: Jason O’Rear In New York, the fresh ripens into the antique at formidable…
A Cooper Hewitt Show About Music Is Missing the Music
R-72 Toot-a-Loop Portable Radio from 1971, designed by Daisuke Kajiwara and manufactured by Panasonic. Photo: Matt Flynn For…
A Rave in a Bronx Castle? The Vision for Kingsbridge Armory
The Kingsbridge Armory is the kind of place you’d be more apt to find in a children’s book…