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Mass Appeal

Library Street Collective unveils a Detroit campus anchored by a church-turned-art space and Tony Hawk-designed skate park

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Monuments Are Dead; Long Live Monuments

Monument Lab and the Mellon Foundation’s National Monument Audit reveals the plasticity of our history

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Bringing Down Barriers

Cleveland’s Dunham Tavern Museum plots a new beginning with community green space

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Taking Control Of The Narrative

Brutalism bolstered Control’s success, but why is the movement still so trendy?

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The Heart of Six Square

Austin’s Carver Museum expansion blooms outward while deepening roots in the community

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Moon With A View

SAGA Space Architects asks how we might live comfortably on the Moon

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Up From the Ashes

A new history center in Tulsa’s Greenwood district recounts a grievous past while spurring future change

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Landscape Tastes, Building, and Forgetting

The 19th-century landscape design principles that shaped the Midwest are still with us today

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Like A Mighty Oak...

Mapping the timber industry boom in 2021

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Model Home

In 1959, John S. Chase, Texas’s first licensed Black architect, laid claim to one of the state’s most radical houses

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From Auntie Anne’s to Ellipticals

In Columbus, Indiana, a dead mall is getting a new lease on life as a health-focused community hub

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Don’t Knock On Wood

B+H Architects wants to replace the shuttered West Seattle Bridge with a sleek mass timber and steel span

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Toward A More Just Built Environment

Dark Matter University brings a new model of architectural education to light

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To Connect And Serve

CannonDesign’s Buffalo community health hub supports a neighborhood and region in need

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Heard Loud and Clear

Community voices come first in reimagining of downtown Atlanta detention center

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It Takes a City

Foley Square’s Black Lives Matter mural is a designer-led transformation of public space

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The Golden Ratio

Long out of print, A-frame returns to satiate America’s lust for triangular homes

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Suppressing Oppression

Oklahoma State University students harness design to respond to, reframe Confederate monuments

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