Architecture

Steven Heller|Essays

People in Glass Apartments

People in glass apartments shouldn’t throw stones or other projectiles. Nor should they engage in private acts directly in front of their floor to ceiling windows.

Mark Lamster|Essays

We Regret to Inform You That Love Will Not Save the Day

The big story on East 7th Street these days is the opening of Thom Mayne's new student center for Cooper Union, on Third Avenue.

Karen Stein|Essays

The Plain Beauty of Well-Made Things

Judd worked as an art critic in his early years in New York as he established himself as an artist. From 1959 until the mid-1960s, his art criticism was his primary, if not only, source of income

Mark Lamster|Essays

Underground Architects

The one question people often ask that I don't enjoy answering is, "Who's your favorite architect?"

Alexandra Lange|Essays

White Columns

In Valentino: The Last Emperor, one dress is followed in all of its incarnations, while architecture is put in its place.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Higher and Higher

In his back-page New York Times Book Review essay on The Complete Stories of J.G. Ballard, Jonathan Lethem makes many good points about Ballard’s visionary writing, “desolate landscapes” and his linkages with other …

John Cantwell|Essays

The Big Screen in Big D

The brand new $1.2 billion home of the Dallas cowboys has a design feature that promises to turn football games there into a weird mashup of football and pinball.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Won't Get Fooled Again

News of the redevelopment of the Atlantic Yards keeps getting worse.

Mark Lamster|Essays

Fire at Rubens's St. Charles Borromeo

An electrical fire has done severe damage to the interior of Antwerp's St. Charles Borromeo.

Mark Lamster|Essays

The Om in Home: Kripalu's New Dorm

I'm not a big yoga fan, and always looked at the Kripalu Yoga Center, in Lenox, with a fair degree of skepticism.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Shiny and New

On this week's Mad Men, three words I never thought I would hear on a dramatic television show: Ada Louise Huxtable.

Richard Ross|Gallery

No Place Like Home

Image from photographer Richard Ross's latest project, "Suitable Placement: Juvenile Justice in America"