Weekly dispatches on architecture, design, and cities

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What burns in “Sinners,” and what survives

Ryan Coogler’s film, up for 16 Oscars this weekend, holds some surprising lessons for architects working at the intersection of race and memory

Or, How to have your taart and eat it too. Plus: Rem weighs in by email on de Graaf’s call for a mandatory retirement age in architecture

Fifteen years and more than $800m in the making, the Swiss architect’s “concrete sculpture” is finally ready to meet a dubious public