Architecture critics have been busy this year, weighing in on a variety of new projects from coast to coast, from new public spaces in Los Angeles, to starchitecture in the Midwest, to institutional additions on the East Coast, like Tod Williams and Billie Tsien’s dramatic new art museum in Philly. Take a look back at some of 2012’s biggest new projects reviewed in the pages of The Architect’s Newspaper.
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Thomas de Monchaux on Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects’ new art museum in Philadelphia, contending with its Beaux Arts neighbors on a boulevard fit for Napoleon.
 Stephanie Murg reviews Farshid Moussavi’s audacious American debut. |
 Crit> Yale University Art Gallery Jayne Merkel surveys Ennead’s museum expansion in New Haven. |
 Crit> McCarren Park Pool Renovation Rogers Marvel’s $50 million renovation restores dignity to a Moses-era pool. |
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 Crit> Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Julie V. Iovine considers Renzo Piano’s Julie V. Iovine considers Renzo Piano’s "near impossible architectural challenge" in Boston. |
 Crit> The Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum Sarah F. Cox asks if Zaha Hadid can make Michigan State University a cultural destination. |
 Michael W. Folonis Architects designs a light-filled Outpatient Surgery and Oncology Center for UCLA in Santa Monica. |
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 The renovated public space, by Rios Clementi Hale, is an important step for a city shedding its old ways. |
 Two new libraries by David Adjaye push accessibility, transparency, and sense of ownership to the forefront. |
 Thomas de Monchaux on H3 Hardy Collaborative Architecture’s addition to the Lincoln Center. |