URBAN PLANNING A New Elevated Park Offers a Blueprint to Cooling Cities Snaking over rooftops in downtown Rotterdam, a new public park designed by MVRDV shows how dense...
URBAN PLANNING How Dead Malls Are Getting a New Lease on Life As the retail apocalypse continues to shutter America’s shopping malls apace, developers are...
URBAN PLANNING Amsterdam’s Controversial Plan to Relocate Its Red Light District The collective Failed Architecture is calling on architects to refuse working with the Dutch...
URBAN PLANNING Can an Ambitious New Park Unite a Divided Cyprus? Eleftheria Square, a newly completed public park by Zaha Hadid Architects, is designed to reunite...
URBAN PLANNING A Floating Public Pool Is Coming to New York’s East River Yes, you read that correctly. The city has approved plans for an Olympic-size swimming pool, shaped
URBAN PLANNING Paris Will Transform the Champs-Elysées Into a Massive Green Space Anne Hidalgo, the mayor of Paris, greenlights a $300 million transformation of the Champs-Élysées
Urban Futures Floating Islands Will Soon Scatter Copenhagen’s Center In response to rising sea levels, Studio Fokstrot and Marshall Blecher designed a series of...
Architecture Ho Chi Minh City’s Central Park Steps Into The Future On what was once a set of 19th-century French railroad tracks, Ho Chi Minh City's revamped Central...
SOCIAL Satisfy Your Inner Urban Planning Nerd With This Census-Themed Twitter Account Artist and urban planner Neil Freeman has programmed a Twitter bot to share bird’s-eye views of...
NEED TO KNOW Need to Know: Michelle LaFoe and Isaac Campbell of OFFICE 52 Architecture "Working with a variety of building materials, as a medium for exploring spatial ideas, provides...
NEED TO KNOW Need to Know: Vincent Eschalier of Studio Vincent Eschalier "The impact it has today is difficult to quantify, but I certainly try to travel as much as...
THE UTOPIA ISSUE What Amazon HQ2 Could Have Been On the heels of Amazon’s controversial New York City about-face, five local firms envision a high
ON VIEW “FUTURES OF THE FUTURE” Celebrates Architect Sou Fujimoto’s Out-of-the-Box Perspective On view at Japan House Los Angeles through Jan. 6.
Real Estate Stephen M. Ross to Architects: Drop Your Egos The Related Companies founder and chairman discusses building sustainable cities and his massive...
DESIGN Mexico City Reexamines Its Urban Plan After the Earthquake Ahead of the city’s role as World Design Capital 2018, and in the wake of a severe natural...
SURFACE 7 A Palatial Members Club Devoted to Fine Wines and Dining Stuns in Hong Kong Plus, Kelly Wearstler’s Giobagnara collaboration, a Swedish streetwear label lands in New York,...
DESIGN DISPATCH Hermès Unveils Its Winter Menswear in Tokyo, and Other News Plus, L.A.'s Natural History Museum opens its new welcome center, and Nike prepares to revive its...
DESIGN DISPATCH Björk Prepares to Take a Nature Installation to the Centre Pompidou, and Other News Plus, the New Museum's exhibition space doubles and Porro opens its first New York City showroom.
ARTIST STATEMENT In the Oeuvre of Terence Ntsako Maluleke, Storytelling Runs Deep With Jackson Hlungwani’s Gift II, the Johannesburg-based painter immortalizes a cherished...
CULTURE CLUB The World’s Most Famous Artists Fêted the Hirshhorn’s 50th Anniversary To mark the 50th anniversary of Washington, D.C.'s, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, 50 of...