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Stephen Zacks

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Station to Station

Majora Carter and STUDIO V to transform a 1908 Cass Gilbert train station for Bronxlandia, an event and performance space

night view of gray brick building
Doing Something Different

OPEN Architecture’s Li Hu speaks about the office’s recent cultural projects in China

tall wooden birdhouse
Sounds of Summer

For the Birds, now on view at Brooklyn Botanic Garden, explores biodiversity through architect-designed follies

Mum’s the Word

The Adams administration promises it will make improvements in New York’s built environment—only it isn’t ready to talk about any of it

A metal triangular building
1967 – 2022

Remembering the expansive legacy of Srdjan Jovanović Weiss

The Strelka Institute in Moscow, where a new research initiative, The Terraforming is based
A Door Closes…

Moscow’s Strelka Institute pauses operations, possibly permanently

A tall, glowing pyramid designed by Agnes Denes
Shedding Light on the Future

The oracular visions of Agnes Denes are on display at The Shed

Aerial photo of snow-covered arctic housing
Ice Cold

Alaska’s Cold Climate Housing Research Center is rethinking how the Circumpolar North builds

A map of the United States with black and white pins stuck into it
A House Divided

Where do the Democratic frontrunners stand on housing?

Exterior frontage of a museum with a MoMA PS1 sign out front
Spirit of MoMA Past, Present, and Future

MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program curators and alumni talk about its future

Aerial photo of the MoMA PS1 courtyard for the young architects program
Forever Young

Exclusive: MoMA and PS1’s Young Architects Program is going on hiatus

A speculative schematic design diagram of a Rikers Island replacement jail tower
Moving on Up

Rikers replacement process begins as New York issues RFQs

Photo of a house submerged in the River Thames by Extinction Rebellion, with towers in the background
Sink or Swim

Extinction Rebellion sinks a house in the Thames for climate protest

A graphic with The Shed and Mary Poppins
Shedding the Shed

the_shed_is_a_shack pokes fun at Hudson Yards and corporate malfeasance

Rendering of a bridge over the East Side Coastal Resiliency park
Build it Back

New York City Council approves controversial East Side flood protection plan

Installation view of black paintings by Torkwase Dyson on a white background
Freedom of Expression

Is Torkwase Dyson’s abstract recount of racial violence a missed opportunity?

The entrance to Karl Fischer Architect's 26 West Street. (Stephen Zacks)
Warehouse Modernism

Brooklyn’s East River waterfront is defining itself in unexpected ways

New York Values

NYCHA’s new guidelines for rehabilitation of public housing push for sustainability and preservation

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