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“I-beams are bending like cigarettes in there”
The latest on the crisis at the Pfizer building, including a conversation with Joe Morgenstern, who wrote a canonical New Yorker article on another midtown tower in danger of collapse; “I've been waiting for this call since 1978.” Plus: Stierli and Cormier join the debate on the future of the architecture exhibition, John King returns, and the Arc de Trump passes another hurdle
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“I-beams are bending like cigarettes in there”
The latest on the crisis at the Pfizer building, including a conversation with Joe Morgenstern, who wrote a canonical New Yorker article on another midtown tower in danger of collapse; “I've been waiting for this call since 1978.” Plus: Stierli and Cormier join the debate on the future of the architecture exhibition, John King returns, and the Arc de Trump passes another hurdle
The new LACMA is a big deal for Los Angeles. The Wilshire subway is even bigger
A conversation with India Mandelkern about her new book on the D Line extension and the “chronic civic illness” of L.A. NIMBYism; plus: a Lamster Pulitzer and the latest architects to reimagine the Met
