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An appreciation: How Thomas Hines basked in the “Architecture of the Sun”

An appreciation: How Thomas Hines basked in the “Architecture of the Sun”

Remembering the dean of L.A. architectural historians. Plus: A Trump proposal to remake Saarinen’s Dulles Airport, some new renderings (but no public comments) from SANAA, and the limits of Nate Silver’s data-driven worldview

Christopher Hawthorne
Christopher Hawthorne
The Cinerama Dome walked so the Sphere could run

The Cinerama Dome walked so the Sphere could run

What the plan to reopen Welton Becket’s Sunset Boulevard landmark says—and doesn't say—about the future of moviegoing. Plus: the Quito fallout continues

Christopher Hawthorne
Christopher Hawthorne
Ornament and crime at the World Cup

Ornament and crime at the World Cup

It’s on like Laocoön. Plus: the Stirling shortlist, a widening architectural scandal in Quito, and a location scout’s take on South L.A.

Christopher Hawthorne
Christopher Hawthorne
‘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; ‘I've been waiting for this call since 1978’

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

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
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