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The Ruins of Babel

The shadow of history looms large at Peter Freeman

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From Destruction to Design

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

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Here Comes the Sun

Peruse our favorite spring 2019 architecture book releases

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Yucatán Believe It

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Philly’s Divine Lorraine Hotel Coming Back to Life

Pictorial> Kara Walker Creates a Sugar Sphinx for Domino Sugar factory

Squandered Land: An Update From Architects & Urbanists Biking Across the Country

Road Builders in Belize Bulldoze 2,300 Year Old Mayan Pyramid for Gravel

Pictorial> Jim Kazanjian’s Victorian Apocalypse

On View> 1976: Movies, Photographs and Related Works on Paper

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