A Delicate Balance
December 23rd, 2002
Tadao Ando, a refined craftsman, builds big in Texas
December 23rd, 2002
Tadao Ando, a refined craftsman, builds big in Texas
October 7th, 2002
Is this the ugliest building in New York?
September 23rd, 2002
Rafael Moneo’s new cathedral in L.A. looms large
May 20th, 2002
How the future of Ground Zero is being resolved
March 25th, 2002
Prada and Toys R Us have much in common
January 14th, 2002
Memorializing terrorism’s victims in Oklahoma.
January 14th, 2002
Memorializing terrorism’s victims in Oklahoma
November 12th, 2001
On the centenary of Louis Kahn’s birth, a look at his legacy and his secret life
November 5th, 2001
New museums in Milwaukee and St. Louis
September 24th, 2001
What the World Trade Center meant
August 2nd, 2001
Two new shows in L.A. explore the legacy of early-modern architects
July 2nd, 2001
Mies van der Rohe and Robert Venturi at three museums
March 12th, 2001
What if Howard Roark had used a Mac?
January 8th, 2001
Norman Foster’s courtyard addition to the British Museum…
October 30th, 2000
October 9th, 2000
Richard Meier’s new United States Courthouse and Federal Building in Central Islip, Long Island.
September 4th, 2000
New buildings in the Times Square area and the new 42nd St. Studios building.
May 22nd, 2000
A look back at the Centre Pompidou
February 14th, 2000
An urban football stadium in midtown Manhattan.
January 31st, 2000
Christian de Portzamparc’s L.V.M.H. small skyscraper on 57th St.
January 17th, 2000
The new Rose Center for Earth and Space at the American Museum of Natural History.
August 16th, 1999
Retro-style New York apartment buildings
May 24th, 1999
March 8th, 1999
Revisiting Brasilia, the futuristic capital of Brazil.
February 22nd, 1999
Early New York developer Louis Horowitz and his book, “The Towers of New York.”
February 15th, 1999
The design of Mt. Vernon
September 28th, 1998
Grand Central Terminal
September 14th, 1998
Latest crop of massive casinos in Las Vegas
April 27th, 1998
London’s new Millennium Dome
February 23rd, 1998
The new Getty Center in LA
December 8th, 1997
Museum of Modern Art’s new expansion
October 13th, 1997
Gehry’s Guggenheim Bilbao
August 18th, 1997
The question of landmark designation for modern buildings of debatable aesthetic value…
October 22nd, 2007
The playful world of Will Alsop
August 27th, 2007
Retro opulence on Central Park West
August 6th, 2007
What should a newsroom look like in the twenty-first century?
April 30th, 2007
Steven Holl rethinks the museum-extension genre
March 19th, 2007
A new home from old roads
February 5th, 2007
Rethinking the legacy of Robert Moses
October 16th, 2006
Two New York projects show how to use Frank Gehry and how not to
September 11th, 2006
August 28th, 2006
After the World Trade Center furor, Daniel Libeskind moves on
July 31st, 2006
Massimiliano Fuksas reinvents the convention center
May 29th, 2006
Three new designs demonstrate Renzo Piano’s brilliance and his limitations
March 20th, 2006
Herzog and de Meuron’s otherworldly stadium in Munich
February 27th, 2006
A striking redesign of Getty’s Malibu villa
December 26th, 2005
The radical quaintness of the Xintiandi district
December 19th, 2005
Norman Foster’s thrilling addition to midtown Manhattan
October 31st, 2005
Santiago Calatrava redefines the apartment tower
October 17th, 2005
A modern way to make a modern home
May 30th, 2005
Why we should build apartments at Ground Zero
May 2nd, 2005
A startling addition to Astor Place
November 15th, 2004
Yoshio Taniguchi’s elegant expansion of the Modern
September 13th, 2004
A high-profile suburb for the Hamptons
August 2nd, 2004
Jersey City wants to be like Lower Manhattan, only neat and clean
May 31st, 2004
The new World War II memorial doesn’t rise to the occasion
May 24th, 2004
Rem Koolhaas’s new library in Seattle is an ennobling public space
February 9th, 2004
The architectural machinations at Ground Zero can be treacherous
December 8th, 2003
November 17th, 2003
A behemoth rises up in Columbus Circle
September 29th, 2003
Frank Gehry’s Disney Hall is a musical pleasure palace
September 15th, 2003
Daniel and Nina Libeskind thought they had figured out how to get a building built. Then they came to New York
July 7th, 2003
New ideas for Lincoln Center that don’t involve dynamite.
June 2nd, 2003
Two great new cultural centers open out of town
March 10th, 2003
The amazing design competition for the World Trade Center site
January 6th, 2003
How will so many people with so many different ideas agree on the new proposals for the World Trade Center site?
September 23rd, 2011
September 20th, 2011
September 19th, 2011
September 12th, 2011
How successful is the new World Trade Center?
August 18th, 2011
August 15th, 2011
Talk story about the late architect Louis I. Kahn and the Franklin D. Roosevelt memorial on Roosevelt Island.
July 25th, 2011
A flamboyant architect’s quieter side.
July 22nd, 2011
June 24th, 2011
May 13th, 2011
May 11th, 2011
May 3rd, 2011
April 11th, 2011
Living Architecture, which immodestly calls itself “a new social enterprise set up to revolutionize both architecture and UK holiday rentals,” has commissioned five modern vacation homes with the apparent intention of putting the Masterpiece Theatre version of England to rest once and for all.
March 7th, 2011
A review of Frank Gehry’s new tower at 8 Spruce Street. From the east you see it against the Woolworth Building, the most lyrical skyscraper in New York. Gehry’s building isn’t its equal, but it’s the first thing built downtown since then that actually deserves to stand beside it.
December 20th, 2010
Eric Owen Moss transforms an entire neighborhood of Culver City with the kind of avant-garde architecture that is usually scattered around the world
October 4th, 2010
The CityCenter development, on the Las Vegas Strip, attempts to provide an alternative to the city’s garish architectural pastiches.
August 9th, 2010
Swiss architects Herzog and de Meuron rethink the parking deck in Miami.
May 17th, 2010
On the new skyscraper headquarters Goldman Sachs built for itself in lower Manhattan.
February 8th, 2010
Dubai reaches for the sky
February 1st, 2010
Jeanne Gang and architecture’s anti-divas.
November 23rd, 2009
Jean Nouvel and the art of the façade.
May 25th, 2009
About the Frank Lloyd Wright retrospective at the Guggenheim
March 30th, 2009
About the architect Andrea Palladio
March 23rd, 2009
The new stadiums for the Yankees and the Mets
March 19th, 2009
The centennial of Daniel Burnham’s Plan for Chicago
February 2nd, 2009
The new Alice Tully Hall and the Lincoln Center renovations
August 25th, 2008
Brad Cloepfil’s redesign of 2 Columbus Circle
June 30th, 2008
Beijing’s new architecture
June 2nd, 2008
Beijing’s Olympic architecture is spectacular, but what message does it send?
May 12th, 2008
About British designer Thomas Heatherwick
April 21st, 2008
Airport design and the new terminals in Beijing and Madrid
November 19th, 2007
A new home for the New Museum of Contemporary Art