A weekly dispatch on architecture, design, and cities, from Christopher Hawthorne
Why not-so-bad feels, in this case, like a minor miracle; plus a ranking of WTC architecture from best to worst
And what Peter Eisenman, his former mentor, thinks of his ballroom plan
Fifteen years and more than $800m in the making, the Swiss architect’s “concrete sculpture” is finally ready to meet a dubious public
Let’s ask Liz Diller!
A review of Michael Meredith’s “Smaller Architecture”
A roundtable discussion with Gustavo Arellano, Joe Mathews, and Alissa Walker
A review of Julian Rose’s “Building Culture”
“Architecton,” from the Russian documentarian Victor Kossakovsky, is beautiful, relentless, and confused
The Met director on growing up with a famous father, his intense apprenticeship with Tom Krens, and why he’s chosen ‘a new generation of architectural voices’ to remake the museum
Is it a day late and a dollar short? Maybe. Probably! But the firm's new mass-timber office block near Basel, mixing the thrifted with the bespoke, is exceptionally good
Viktor Orbán, MAGA, and the gaudy architecture of grievance; plus, my odd run-in with the Hungarian Culture Minister
The shaky case for a ban on new buildings
Inside the daring, disciplined visual strategy of the upstart Mamdani campaign
