What Ground Zero Should Have Been25 years on, some regrets. Sep 03 26September 03, 2026Article at New York Times
It Won’t Stop at the Arc de Trump. It Won’t Stop at Washington.The Trump administration’s proposed changes to the review process will allow it to take a wrecking ball to historic sites across the country. Aug 09 26August 09, 2026Article at New York Times
Opinion | Mussolini Would Have Loved Trump’s BallroomTrump’s plans for Washington bring to mind what Mussolini did — and tried to do — to Rome. Mar 13 26March 13, 2026Article at New York Times
Opinion | Robert A.M. Stern Designed New York City Like a 1930s MovieHe was, in the very best way, the Ralph Lauren of architects. Dec 02 25December 02, 2025Article at New York Times
Nicolas Ghesquière Invites Vanity Fair Into His California ChâteauThe French fashion designer has brought his vision to Louis Vuitton, Balenciaga, and Jean Paul Gaultier. Now he has a new challenge: renovating a Frank Lloyd Wright–worthy manor in West Hollywood. Nov 26 25November 26, 2025Article at Vanity Fair
Eugene Kohn, Architect of Skyscraping Reach, Dies at 92Eugene Kohn, an architect who co-founded the firm Kohn Pedersen Fox in 1976 and whose ambitions led it to become, within a few years, a rival to long-established international architectural firms and one of the most prolific designers of skyscrapers… Mar 09 23March 09, 2023Article at New York Times
Not Your Grandfather’s SkyscraperSUPERTALL: How the World’s Tallest Buildings Are Reshaping Our Cities and Our Lives The unrelenting construction of bigger and bigger skyscrapers in New York City is “shutting out the light of the heavens and circumscribing the air of the streets,”… Apr 12 22April 12, 2022Article at New York Times
Alexander Garvin, Visionary City Planner, Is Dead at 80Alexander Garvin, a city planner, architect and author who directed the planning for the former World Trade Center site in Lower Manhattan after the Sept. 11 attacks and developed the vision for a 2012 Olympics proposal in New York, died on Friday at… Dec 20 21December 20, 2021Article at New York Times
Gerald D. Hines, Developer and Architects’ ‘Medici,’ Is Dead at 95Gerald D. Hines, a soft-spoken engineer who started out as a builder of small, anonymous warehouses in Houston and went on to transform the business of commercial real estate development by hiring blue-chip architects to build commercial skyscrapers… Aug 27 20August 27, 2020Article at New York Times
Jaquelin Taylor Robertson, Architect and Passionate Urbanist, Dies at 87Jaquelin Taylor Robertson, an architect who grew up on a grand classical estate in Virginia before becoming one of New York’s most prominent and impassioned advocates of urban design, died on Saturday at his home in East Hampton, N.Y. He was 87. The… May 10 20May 10, 2020Article at New York Times
Cesar Pelli, Designer of Iconic Buildings Around the World, Dies at 92Cesar Pelli, who designed some of the world’s most recognizable buildings, died on Friday at his home in New Haven. He was 92. His son Rafael confirmed the death. Mr. Pelli’s works included the cluster of towers making up the World Financial Center… Jul 20 19July 20, 2019Article at New York Times
I.M. Pei, Master Architect Whose Buildings Dazzled the World, Dies at 102I. M. Pei, who began his long career designing buildings for a New York real estate developer and ended it as one of the most revered architects in the world, died early Thursday at his home in Manhattan. He was 102. His death was confirmed by his… May 16 19May 16, 2019Article at New York Times
Kevin Roche, Architect Who Melded Bold With Elegant, Dies at 96Kevin Roche, the Dublin-born American architect whose modernist buildings, at once bold and refined, gave striking new identities to corporations, museums and institutions around the world, died on Friday at his home in Guilford, Conn. He was 96. His… Mar 03 19March 03, 2019Article at New York Times
THE MAN IN THE GLASS HOUSEPhilip Johnson, Architect of the Modern Century Illustrated. 508 pp. Little, Brown & Company. $35. You want to begin a review of “The Man in the Glass House,” Mark Lamster’s stimulating and lively new biography of Philip Johnson, by saying something… Dec 20 18December 20, 2018Article at New York Times
Dept. of Second ChancesIn California, marijuana is legal, but people with weed-related convictions still struggle to find work. Lowell Herb Co. invites them to apply. Jul 23 18July 23, 2018Article at The New Yorker
George Lucas Strikes Back: Inside the Fight to Build the Lucas MuseumThere are a number of reasons why movie directors do not generally go around establishing museums. It is not only because most of them do not own enough artworks to put into them or have enough money to start new careers as philanthropists. If you… Jul 06 18July 06, 2018Article at Vanity Fair
How New York, Chicago, and Phoenix Are Celebrating Frank Lloyd Wright’s 150th BirthdayIt is always the year of Frank Lloyd Wright, so monumentally does he loom over American architecture. But if Wright is a constant presence in architectural discourse, he is getting even more attention than usual this year, because June 8 marks the… Jun 08 17June 08, 2017Article at Vanity Fair
The Woman Who Saved New York City from Superhighway HellPlan a night at the movies to see Citizen Jane: Battle for the City, a rousing documentary about journalist-activist Jane Jacobs and her fight in the 1960s against Robert Moses, New York’s tsar of urban development, which opens April 21. Selected for… Apr 14 17April 14, 2017Article at Vanity Fair
A New Crop of Artists Re-create a Famed 1968 LACMA PhotographInstallation-art pioneer Robert Irwin had to cancel, but expat British realist David Hockney turned up at the last minute. He was among the three score artists who gathered at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art one evening at dusk this fall for a… Nov 10 16November 10, 2016Article at Vanity Fair
How Thomas Heatherwick Became the Pied Piper of ArchitectureDiller and von Furstenberg first encountered Heatherwick’s work at the Shanghai World Expo in 2010, where they, like millions of people, were astounded by his design for the U.K. Pavilion, a shimmering cube of a building whose surface was covered… Nov 09 16November 09, 2016Article at Vanity Fair
