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National #03 - 5.4.2022Latest Stories

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Sealed To Perfection

This ultra-efficient San Antonio office underscores the importance of tight building envelopes

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More Than Skin-Deep

Eight years after its first appearance at the Venice Biennale of Architecture, Alejandro Zaera-Polo’s theory of facades is given its due

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Stonehenge on the UWS

Studio Gang’s Gilder Center undulates with elegant shotcrete and granite

storefronts in a swiss-themed town in wisconsin
Potemkin Village

The curious case of a Wisconsin canton and its legally sanctioned “Swiss” architecture raises questions about identity construction

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Fields, Fragments, Fictions

A new exhibition showcases the remarkable paintings of OMA co-founder Zoe Zenghelis

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Health Prescription

The Focal Point Community Campus promises to expand healthcare in a Chicago neighborhood where it’s badly needed. So why isn’t everyone on board?

a theater complex with a globe-shaped volume extending from a boxy building
Theater in the Round

OMA’s Taipei Performing Arts Center lifts theater spaces over a bustling night market

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Dynamic Duo

Comprising two buildings, Columbia University’s new business school presents a dynamic face to a growing campus

rendering of a revitalized chicago streetscape
Trust the Process?

Chicago’s INVEST South/West yields early initial projects, but not without communication breakdowns along the way

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Full Circle

By redrawing the way we design, build, and “unbuild,” circularity could reduce forced labor in the building industry

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Something for Everyone

Adjaye Associates’ Winter Park Library offers many paths of discovery within monumental yet well-scaled enclosures

The Politics of Memory

Calls for a permanent COVID memorial neglect our fragmented political culture and the long road to recovery that lies ahead

portrait of christopher alexander
Code Breaker

Christopher Alexander, who died in March at 85, offered ways to unf*ck the world

On View

MoMA exhibition on building and decolonization in South Asia raises questions about the authentically hopeful architecture of nation-building

Elevation of new mixed-use complex
Ain't No Valley Low

MVRDV’s Valley twists and turns with natural stone and vegetated balconies

Radically Open

Selldorf Architects’ expansion of the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego looks out while inviting you in

Design on Trial

A legal battle between Marlon Blackwell Architects and HBG Design will have lasting implications for architectural practice

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