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Friendly Fire

It’s time for designers to embrace fire as the ecological and cultural force that it is.

An oil well on a flat plain, as part of a green new deal class
Design Crit

A nationwide “Superstudio” aims to broaden the appeal of the Green New Deal beyond the liberal coasts

Interior of a crumbling segregation-era gym, the type being looked at by tulane researchers
Remnant Schools

At Tulane, faculty are repurposing the legacy of Jim Crow across Louisiana

The skyline of Louisville, kentucky, as seen from a steel bridge
A Southern Story

Contestations over redevelopment in Louisville reveal a historical pattern of prioritizing property over people

An ontario public housing development in black and white, part of the tower Renewal Partnership
Raising Expectations

The Tower Renewal Partnership retrofits Southern Ontario’s concrete high-rises for a sustainable and affordable future

Society’s cage, a monument in front of the washington monument
Gone Too Soon

Society’s Cage is an architectural comment on systemic racism on the Washington Mall

The freedom garden, rendering of people walking through a park and seeing a monument
Moving Forward

Phil Freelon’s legacy lives on in the North Carolina Freedom Park

The interior of an abandoned hospital, shot by Geoff Manaugh
Shut Ins

The authors of a forthcoming book on quarantine discuss its past, present, and future

People all congregating on the sky deck at Hudson Yards
Bouncing Back

New York City’s surfeit of office space will survive the COVID-19 crisis, but will look a little different on the other side

Employees at a restaurant preparing meals for pandemic frontline workers
Makeshift Futures

Research and changes to urban life are driving design innovation forward amid a pandemic

Rendering of Hancock Park, a block with a large glass bubble attached to a building
Movies to Mammoths

Hancock Park may become Los Angeles’s first true urban microcosm

Destination Crenshaw, an elevated park platform
A South L.A. Homecoming

Destination Crenshaw celebrates the culture of South Los Angeles as it parades down the community’s main drag

A warehouse clad in perforated aluminum, for the University of Arkansas
Speaking Up

Innovation in Arkansas shouldn’t be overlooked

Rendering of a timber concert hall with undulating ceiling
Wood You Imagine

Architects apply the latest in fabrication, design, and visualization to age-old timber

An Only If-designed white exhibition
Only If It's Built

Only If builds practice through research and context

A poster that says Building Practice on a blue background
Practice and Praxis

Read all of AN’s Building Practice interview series here

A colorful market in Oregon
West by Northwest: Oregon Ways

The mythologies of Oregon’s utopian seekers still informs its design and architecture today

Aerial photo of snow-covered arctic housing
Ice Cold

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

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