Weekly dispatches on architecture, design, and cities

Punching up since 2025

A bracingly new take on China’s Mao-era architecture

“How Modern,” at Montreal’s CCA, turns conventional wisdom on its head; plus: remembering Bob Stern

And what Peter Eisenman, his former mentor, thinks of his ballroom plan

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