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Taking the Cake

Move over seasteaders, cryptocurrency investors want to build their own private island countries

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Farewell to the Folly

London’s Marble Arch Mound closes after a turbulent six-month run

The world trade center complex for above, governed by alexander garvin when he was director of planning
Late Edition

Daily digest: The AIA Los Angeles comes out against Munger Hall, Alexander Garvin passes away, and more

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SoHo-a-Go-Go

New York City Council approves controversial SoHo/NoHo rezoning

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Salvage Job

Architecture academia’s latest controversy has all the makings of a shit show, but we need to look past the spectacle

looking out at the phoenix skyline and a stone structure; HDR inc is accused of surveilling activists who protested plans to run a highway through the city park
Covert STRATA

HDR responds to reports of surveilling clients’ opponents

A statue of robert e lee covered with a black tarp in front of an anti racism march against confederate monuments
To The Halls Of History

More than a dozen organizations apply to acquire Charlottesville’s toppled Confederate monuments

Aerial rendering of the Essential Workers Park on the Hudson River, with the circle of heroes monument at its core
On Hold

Daily digest: Circle of Heroes memorial paused over protests, Surfside survivors search suspended due to collapse fears

Rendering of bamboo tensile structures rising on a roof at the antepavilion site
All Along the Watchtower

Antepavilion designers arrested as police raid East London site

One of this year's winning Antepavilion installations, a pyramid in a cover
The Ole' Razzle Dazzle

London’s Antepavilion competition soldiers on with new winners

A photoshopped image of the Jefferson Davis Memorial Chair with a hole cut into it
The Stone Throne

Anti-racism activists kidnapped a Confederate monument and used it as a toilet… or did they?

A statue of robert e. lee in charlottesville in 2006.
Good Riddance

Charlottesville’s Confederate memorials can come down, Virginia supreme court rules

Sign and exterior of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, with the philip johnson gallery now covered (reading moma)
In The Black

Leon Black steps down as MoMA chairman as artists and activists plan to strike

A confederate monument being removed
Mass Produced, Mass Removal

Op-Ed: A Confederate monument graveyard is within our grasp

Exterior view of the Cooper Hewitt museum in New York City; director Caroline Baumann was recently forced to step down
Conflicts of Interest

Cooper Hewitt director and six trustees resign over wedding controversy

A group of men, including Jair Bolsonaro and Bjarke Ingels
Part Two

Bjarke Ingels defends his meeting with Brazil’s President Bolsonaro

Architecture pavilion seen from above at the Serpentine Gallery
Design and Debate

Here are 2019’s most controversial moments in architecture

Rendering of a group of curvilinear glass and concrete buildings surrounded by palm trees; Bleutech Park
LeGrand Scheme

Is Bleutech’s Las Vegas smart city on the level?

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