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CULTURE CLUB
Storefront for Art & Architecture Toasts 40 Years

On Sept. 19, Storefront for Art & Architecture brought together the New York design cognoscenti for

ART
Thirty Years in the Making, Berlin’s Humboldt Forum Is Complete

After nearly three decades of planning, the Humboldt Forum has finally opened to the public. But...

URBAN PLANNING
Can Google Solve the Bay Area’s Housing Crisis?

The tech giant aims to realize an arduous, decades-long proposal to develop nearly 15,000 housing...

ARCHITECTURE
At Donum Estate, a Kaleidoscopic Wine-Tasting Pavilion

Studio Other Spaces, the architecture firm helmed by Olafur Eliasson and Sebastian Behmann, crafts...

ARCHITECTURE
Architects Can Do More to Prevent Bird Deaths. Why Aren’t They?

Collisions with glass buildings kill up to one billion migratory birds per year in the United...

WEB3
An Artist-Designed Metaverse Community Is Taking Shape

The Alexander Team and Everyrealm launch a members-only virtual community with landmark homes...

ARCHITECTURE
Blowing Up Architecture Fails, Video Game Style

After London’s ill-fated Marble Arch Mound was recreated in a modified version of Duke Nukem, we...

URBAN PLANNING
SoHo’s Unlikely Renaissance Captured Lightning in a Bottle

With the news of Bernard Marson’s passing, we reflect on how the architect and developer...

ARCHITECTURE
Why Hospitals Will Start Resembling Parks and Museums

The Stavros Niarchos Foundation has announced an ambitious proposal to build three state-of-the-art

ARCHITECTURE
The First Modernist Home’s Fascinating Backstory

As the storied Schindler House celebrates its 100th birthday, the MAK Center for Art and...

ARCHITECTURE
The Architect Resisting Boko Haram With a Community-Centric Approach

The Lagos-based architect Tosin Oshinowo is wrapping up the redesign of Ngarannam, a Northern...

ART
This New York Development Has an Artwashing Problem

A proposal to transform an industrial area of Queens into a sprawling mixed-use development and...

ARCHITECTURE
Is Timber the Future of Sustainable Building?

Architects agree that mass timber buildings are safer, more durable, and more sustainable than...

ARCHITECTURE
The World Is Burning Up. Buildings Are Partly to Blame

Deadly heat waves swept across Europe this week, once again illustrating the all-too-real effects...

ARCHITECTURE
A Newfound Appreciation for Googie Architecture

Though many Googie structures have fallen into disrepair or met the wrecking ball, the Space Age...