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inside a greenpoint townhome that has been reclad in white oak

Greenpoint Sanctuary

Hatchet NYC brings the sunshine into a narrow Brooklyn rowhouse

March 10, 2022 • East, Interiors

inside offset house, with white scalloped ceiling and skylights

Scalloped Synergy

Overlay Office transforms a 19th-century Brooklyn rowhouse into the quirky Offset House

February 23, 2022 • East, Interiors

inside Bacetti, a roman inspired restaurant with exposed wood trusses

Textured Trattoria

Stayner Architects brings Rome-inspired materials to a new restaurant in Echo Park

February 17, 2022 • Interiors, West

A mountain of birds killed by flying into the glass of the world trade centers

Collision Crisis

Why do glassy towers keep killing so many birds?

January 7, 2022 • Architecture, Feature, Featured, National, Sustainability

east river park in the summer

Protection At A Price

New York begins demolition of East River Park for new concrete storm barriers

January 4, 2022 • East, Landscape Architecture, News, Sustainability

The sprawling averne east housing complex, with solar panels on top of buildings

Rockaway Resiliency

New York’s Rockaway Peninsula will be home to the city’s first net-zero development

December 30, 2021 • Development, East, News, Sustainability

Gone With The Garden?

SoHo/NoHo rezoning puts Elizabeth Street Garden on rockier footing

December 27, 2021 • Development, East, News, Urbanism

The chicago skyline

On Native Land

Chicago will fund the city’s first affordable housing complex for Indigenous residents

December 20, 2021 • Development, Midwest, News

the national mall with washington monument where beyond granite will rise

More For The Mall

Van Alen Institute and The Urban Studio will go Beyond Granite on the National Mall

December 20, 2021 • Art, East, News

Timber wrapped shading pavilions designed by Kishore Varanasi

Cooling Down

Kishore Varanasi on preparing U.S. cities for rising temperatures

September 20, 2021 • International, Q+A, Sustainability, Urbanism

Beams in the Bronx

Sean Desiree’s Bronx Beam Ensemble pays homage to Black musical traditions

September 20, 2021 • Art, East, On View

Harvard’s new Science and Engineering Complex, with a grated facade

Grate Design

Harvard’s new Science and Engineering Complex is wrapped in a shimmering second skin

September 17, 2021 • East, Facades+

New Front Yahd

Sasaki’s extensive renovation of Boston City Hall Plaza is moving along

September 6, 2021 • Architecture, East, Editor's Picks, News, Preservation

aerial view of downtown Indianapolis

Local Hire

Indianapolis hires new deputy planning director with a focus on equity

August 25, 2021 • Development, Midwest, News, Urbanism

facade of a museum in chinatown, manhattan

Money For MoCA

Public investment in Manhattan’s Museum of Chinese in America sparks anti-gentrification protests

August 25, 2021 • East, News, Urbanism

Inside Berghain, converted to display projected photos of wildnerness

Dance Floor Dreamscape

Berlin’s famous Berghain nightclub gets transformed with hypnotic landscape imagery

August 18, 2021 • Art, International, News, Technology

Rendering of the Robert L.B. Tobin Land Bridge in San Antonio, which is now complete

Creature Comforts

This new San Antonio land bridge enables people and animals to safely cross a busy highway

August 18, 2021 • Landscape Architecture, News, Southwest, Sustainability

The grounds of templo mayor

Tacky Tenochtitlan?

Mexico’s foam Aztec pyramid replica draws ridicule online

August 17, 2021 • International, News, Preservation

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