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Breaking Ground for Bezos

Demolition begins on Gyo Obata–designed restaurant pavilion in Washington to make way for Bezos Learning Center

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Biting the Dust

Demolition digest: A Venturi Scott Brown house, a Vermont church and landscape, and other (potentially) razed buildings

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Friday Fun

Daily digest: Debt-burdened architects flee the profession, historic gay bar is landmarked, and more news

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“What Do You Want, Brick?”

Louis Kahn’s complex at IIM Ahmedabad again faces threats of demolition, reconstruction, and renovation

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End of an Era

Miami Beach’s fabled Deauville Beach Resort imploded as future redevelopment plans remain unsettled

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Blast Off

NASA demolishes a 1960s-era office building at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama

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Big Doings in Bluff City

Memphis proposes $684 million sweep of stadium renovations and demolition of historic Mid-South Coliseum

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Riverfront Razing

Jacksonville City Council approves demolition of historic Ford assembly plant on the city’s riverfront

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Razing the Ruins

Demolition work begins on Albert Kahn’s Packard Plant, a hulking relic of Detroit’s automotive glory days

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Cracked and Scrambled

Oklahoma City’s egg-shaped First Christian Church has been demolished

an abandoned hospital building
Closing the Portal

“Hawkins National Laboratory” from Stranger Things set to be demolished by Emory University

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Rolling In Deau

Gehry-designed redevelopment of historic Deauville hotel site is now in the hands of Miami Beach voters

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Long Live The King

Daily digest: A hot dog-slinging Upper East Side mainstay faces demolition, RIBA reacts to chaotic political shakeup, and more

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Metabolized

A successful failure: Remembering the Nakagin Capsule Tower

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Metabolized

An obsolescent masculine dream: Remembering the Nakagin Capsule Tower

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Metabolized

Fala finds a home in Ginza: Remembering the Nakagin Capsule Tower

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Metabolized

Images of a future from the recent past: Remembering the Nakagin Capsule Tower

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Metabolized

Metabolic memories: Remembering the Nakagin Capsule Tower

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