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Building on Stricken Land

Revisiting Luis Muñoz Marín Foundation Visitors Center by Toro Arquitectos, 12 years later

loudreaders poster for trade school
Spatial Sessions

A radical trade school invites architects and activists to Puerto Rico for a summer of learning and research

nightime and rainy rendering of housing prototype
Designing an Island’s Future

After Hurricane Fiona, Puerto Rico must lead with infrastructural innovation

The radio telescope dish at arecibo observatory in happier times
Goodbye Big Dish, Hello STEM

Puerto Rico’s famed Arecibo Telescope will not be rebuilt as the NSF shifts focus to new educational center

a tropical landscape anchored by a pavilion with a steeply pitched roof
Fresh Start

Marvel’s $18 million refresh of El Yunque Visitors Center opens in Puerto Rico

Concrete groups try to hit net-zero carbon by 2050, a harambe statue appears in Manhattan, and more
Gone But Not Forgotten

Daily digest: A Harambe statue appears on Wall Street, trying to hit net-zero concrete by 2050, and more

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Beachy Keen

Daily digest: Half of Puerto Rico was without power, billionaires are enlarging their flood-prone beach houses, and more

The remains of the dish at arecibo observatory
Rest In Pieces

Drones captured the moment Arecibo’s dish was destroyed

The radio telescope dish at arecibo observatory in happier times
End Of An Era

Arecibo observation platform collapses, taking out the main dish

The radio telescope dish at arecibo observatory in happier times
The 2020 Hits Keep On Coming

After catastrophic failures, Arecibo’s dish will be demolished

Photo of Arecibo Observatory in disrepair
2020, Right

Arecibo Observatory damaged again by another falling cable

Photo of Arecibo Observatory in disrepair
Out of Contact

A falling cable has gashed open the Arecibo Observatory

rendering of a colorful spiral monument on a walkway
In The Lows

Hurricane Maria memorial unveiled for Battery Park City

Headshot of a man with a red lanyard, Francisco Javier Rodríguez-Suárez, the new director of the University of Illinois architecture program
Education Overhaul

Francisco Javier Rodríguez-Suárez named new director of University of Illinois’s School of Architecture

Aerial view of flood zone in Puerto Rico
A Post-Maria Mission

Ricardo Álvarez-Díaz on why Puerto Rico needs the help of more architects

Photomontage of aerial view of National Mall with tarps laid on lawn
Design In Protest

Puerto Rican architecture students design counter-proposals to Hurricane Maria memorial

Aerial view of destroyed houses in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria
Open Call

Architects invited to submit designs for New York’s Hurricane Maria Memorial

Jonathan Marvel
Power to the People

How an architect is using solar power to prevent Puerto Rico’s next disaster

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