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Acting No More

Keri Butler named executive director of New York City’s Public Design Commission

photograph of spotfire training
Friendly Fire

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

modules on a beach, an example of prefabrication in an urban context
Encouraging the Unconventional

NYC Public Design Commission explores small-scale prefabrication potential in a big-city context

Yellow cab traffic in nyc
Infrastructure Weak

Is Trump holding up NYC congestion pricing and Second Avenue Subway funding?

Street view of old brick building former prison
Moving On

Deborah Berke Partners’ prison-to-women’s rights club conversion canceled

Rendering of a seawall on a coast
Prepping for Sandy 2.0

Army Corps of Engineers will erect miles of seawalls along Staten Island

Fantastic Fountains

World’s Fair fountains to become fog garden and water park

Housing Brass Tacks: What Can Architects Do?

Squad Goals

See the award-winning design for the NYPD Bomb Squad Headquarters

Vulnerability In Resilient Urbanism

Has “resiliency” been hijacked to justify and promote development?

Time Travel

New maps of Lower Manhattan reveal its dynamic history

Field Day

Archtober’s Building of the Day: Ocean Breeze Track and Fieldhouse

Seaport Square

Developer Richard Askin talks facades and resilience in Boston

Venice on the East River

MTA Off Track: Record ridership just one of the problems facing New York City transit

The New Neighborhood

These four Urban Design projects made the cut for the 2015 AIA Institute Honor Awards

Hillside on the Hudson

Resistant Resiliency

Archtober Building of the Day #13> The Museum at Eldridge Street

Jennifer Nitzky

EPA picks 5 cities to join green infrastructure program

Motoring in Jamaica Bay

Design for Daily Life & Extreme Weather Events

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