New York’s Flooding Defenses Are Finally Coming Into View
Two images juxtaposed: Flooding in Battery Park City during Superstorm Sandy in 2012, and a present-day image of…
The Hyperflexible Theater And Its Limits
Photo: Andy Henderson, Evan Zimmerman, Iwan Baan, Matthew Murphy, Whitney Browne Actors have broken the fourth wall since…
Why Williamsburg Is So Different From Hunter’s Point South
Photo: © SWA Group/David Lloyd (Hunter’s Point South); Radhika Chalasani (Domino) A quarter-century ago, when the Twin Towers…
Trump Might Deliver the Penn Station We’ve Been Waiting For
The new Penn Station faces Eighth Avenue with a grand ceremonial façade … Photo: PAU At last! You…
The Greatest Gothic Cathedrals Began on Parchment
The oldest surviving architectural drawings are of Strasbourg Cathedral, which was begun around 1250, but this façade elevation…
An Architectural Fantasy League for New York City
Photo-Illustration: Curbed; Photos: AIDIA, Getty, Hiroshi Nakamura & NAP, Kéré Architecture, For a global city, New York can…
The New Museum’s Playful New Addition by OMA
Photo: Courtesy New Museum. Photo: Jason O’Rear In New York, the fresh ripens into the antique at formidable…
The Best New York City Architecture of the Past Decade
Photo-Illustration: Curbed; Photo: Albert Vecerka/Esto; David Sundberg/Esto; Iwan Baan For a while, in this century’s early days, it…
Camp Bowie Boulevard History and Legacy
I remember riding into Fort Worth as a kid from our sprawling home in Cleburne, pressing against the car window…
A JPMorgan Chase Skyscraper Rises in Mamdani’s New York
JP Morgan Chase’s new headquarters at 270 Park Avenue is a $3 billion altar to capital. Foster and…