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The Ruins of Babel

The shadow of history looms large at Peter Freeman

January 31, 2020

View of exhibition space with white walls and wooden floor

From Destruction to Design

Artist Piers Secunda creates art from the ashes of modern ruins in Iraq

August 28, 2019

Photo of a repurposed grain silo

Here Comes the Sun

Peruse our favorite spring 2019 architecture book releases

April 9, 2019

Photo of the Palace for Mexican Music

Yucatán Believe It

The Palace for Mexican Music sings with local stone and dramatic steel ribs

October 12, 2018

(Courtesy Ben Jacobsen / NCA)

Right on trend, the oldest mall in America is reborn as micro-apartments

February 8, 2016

On View> Glimmering light installation recalls the destroyed baronial towers of Bannerman’s Castle near New York City

August 4, 2015

3D projection technology fleetingly brings back the Bamiyan Buddha that was destroyed by the Taliban

July 1, 2015

Video> Take a drone tour of a ruined city in the Chernobyl hot zone

December 5, 2014

Take a tour inside the under-construction Empire Stores in Dumbo, Brooklyn

October 16, 2014

Peek Inside Ellis Island’s abandoned hospital before it opens for tours next week

September 26, 2014

Detroit's crumbling Michigan Theatre has fallen into disrepair since its 1926 construction. (Hermann Schleicher-Roevenstrunck via Flickr)

Detroit’s infamous theater-turned-parking garage sold at auction

August 12, 2014

Detroit “Reanimate the Ruins” Ideas Competition Tackles Historic Packard Automotive Plant

August 11, 2014