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Jul 10, 2026

When skyscrapers wobble

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”

Christopher Hawthorne

Jun 26, 2026

Review: In Porto, airbrushing the Gehry legend

“The Century of Gehry” opens a lengthy run at the Serralves Museum. Plus: Calling all fall preview items; three linked Paul R. Williams exhibitions on the way; and possible trouble for a Kuma design in D.C.

Christopher Hawthorne

Jun 05, 2026

Review: At the Obama Center, a return to idiosyncrasy for Tod Williams and Billie Tsien

Is the tower at the heart of the Chicago campus a bulwark? A monument to one man’s ego? A memorial to a vanishing vision of America? It might just be all three

Christopher Hawthorne

When skyscrapers wobble

Christopher Hawthorne

Jul 03, 2026

Where does the architecture exhibition go from here?

I asked some curators, critics, and historians to weigh in. Plus: Joe Day on L.A.’s trio of new museum buildings; Kate Wagner on American architecture at 250; and the “era of error” moves to the National Mall

Christopher Hawthorne

Jun 26, 2026

Review: In Porto, airbrushing the Gehry legend

Christopher Hawthorne

Jun 19, 2026

Brutalism and its afterlives

On the trail of Jean-François Zevaco, a forgotten Moroccan master

Christopher Hawthorne

Jun 12, 2026

“A great place for a walk-and-talk with your ex”: Angelenos weigh in on the new LACMA

Highlights from “A LACMA Therapy Session,” the first Punch List live event, including newly commissioned photos by Janna Ireland of the David Geffen Galleries

Christopher Hawthorne

Jun 05, 2026

Review: At the Obama Center, a return to idiosyncrasy for Tod Williams and Billie Tsien

Is the tower at the heart of the Chicago campus a bulwark? A monument to one man’s ego? A memorial to a vanishing vision of America? It might just be all three

Christopher Hawthorne

May 29, 2026

Whatever happened to the presidential library?

Ahead of the Obama Center opening next month, a road trip to Hyde Park reveals how far we’ve drifted from the original model

Christopher Hawthorne

May 22, 2026

Spencer Pratt’s Deco dreams

L.A.’s unlikely mayoral contender is only the latest on the right to call for a revival of the style

Christopher Hawthorne

May 15, 2026

The Eaton fire’s miracle Rocky

It shows up as a surprising coda to “Rising Up,” Paul Farber’s show on myth and monuments at the Philadelphia Museum of Art; plus: a Neue Galerie-Met “merger” and a Reflecting Pool lawsuit

Christopher Hawthorne

May 08, 2026

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

Christopher Hawthorne