Architecture

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Mark Lamster|Essays

The City in Pictures

Every great city is unique. Each has its own special character, a certain cosmopolitan energy that is its own, the product of its people, its history, its culture, its physical form.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

UN, Now and Then

On the United Nations five-year renovation, systems and sustainability upgrade and preservation effort.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Skating on the Edge of Taste with Warren Platner

Viewed today, the work of 70s and 80s interior designer Warren Platner seems just one reflection away from disco, one black room away from S&M. Each of his projects comes with the question, can he hold himself back? Can he convince us that …

Alexandra Lange|Essays

XL

On the High Museum of Art's tribute to John Portman, Atlanta’s ur-architect and greatest claim to urban influence.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Look Again

When visiting the Eero Saarinen exhibit at Museum of the City of New York, be sure to look at the photographs from Look Magazine.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

See the USA

My husband and I took a three-week modern architecture tour of the Midwest.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Texan Capitals

I don’t usually like to write about architecture that isn’t there, but I can't resist commenting on Zaha Hadid's MAXXI and Robert A. M. Stern Architects' design for the George W. Bush Presidential Center.

James Wegener|Essays

Metabolic Dark City

In 1993, the City of Darkness, or the Walled City of Kowloon was demolished. To the 35,000 people living in this dense urban slum, the change was the end of a lawless existence.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Paper Revelations

Reading a lot of architecture criticism for those same classes, I also start to develop a running mental list of the writerly tics of critics like Paul Goldberger.

Alexandra Lange|Essays