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“I-beams are bending like cigarettes in there”

“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. 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

Christopher Hawthorne
Christopher Hawthorne
Where does the architecture exhibition go from here?

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
Christopher Hawthorne
Review: In Porto, airbrushing the Gehry legend

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
Christopher Hawthorne
Brutalism and its afterlives

Brutalism and its afterlives

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

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

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

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
Christopher Hawthorne
Whatever happened to the presidential library?

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
Christopher Hawthorne
Spencer Pratt’s Deco dreams

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. Plus: announcing the first Punch List live event(!), a collaboration with Los Angeles Review of Architecture and L.A. Material

Christopher Hawthorne
Christopher Hawthorne
The Eaton fire’s miracle Rocky

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
Christopher Hawthorne
The new LACMA is a big deal for Los Angeles. The Wilshire subway is even bigger

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
Christopher Hawthorne
The polymath’s revenge

The polymath’s revenge

What a brilliant exhibition on Viollet-le-Duc says about our own architectural and cultural moment

Christopher Hawthorne
Christopher Hawthorne
“The blemishes stand up and shout”

“The blemishes stand up and shout”

How much should we care about construction errors at LACMA and the New Museum?

Christopher Hawthorne
Christopher Hawthorne
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