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    The History of the Modern Office in One BuildingThe old MetLife complex on Madison Square, once a hive of paper-pushing clerks, gains a tall addition that’s all light and air.
    By Justin Davidson
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    Cooper Stock 9-year-old killed crossing street
    The Upper West Side’s Zone of Pedestrian DeathThe area around 96th Street is dangerous. And it’s hardly the worst in town.
    By Justin Davidson
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    Cross Your Fingers for the Whitney’s Breuer BuildingThe interior’s not landmarked, and Herzog & de Meuron are going in to renovate.
    By Justin Davidson
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    The Vessel, Newly Closed-In, Is Open AgainSafer, surely, but still as dumb an attraction as ever.
    By Justin Davidson
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    Why Do Concert Halls Still Matter?An antique architectural form that continues to resonate.
    By Justin Davidson
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    The Two Paul RudolphsThe Met’s retrospective reveals the architect’s vision and optimism — and his supreme arrogance.
    By Justin Davidson
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    Buffalo Is Doing Preservation (Mostly) RightGiving its slow recovery a boost by spending money on its past.
    By Justin Davidson
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    Larry Silverstein Outlasted EveryoneThere’s a lot of see-I-was-right-ness in his new memoir about rebuilding the World Trade Center — and often he was.
    By Justin Davidson
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    The End of Our Decrepit Streetery EraNew rules may have scared away many restaurants, but this may be the beginning of better outdoor dining.
    By Justin Davidson
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    Shigeru Ban’s Dazzling Architecture of TimeThe architect’s approach (and choice of materials) embraces simplicity and change.
    By Philip Jodidio
    Introduction by Justin Davidson
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    What Did Brooklyn Bridge Park Get So Right?Nearly 20 years after we broke ground, it’s more impressive than ever.
    By Justin Davidson
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    Inside the Bizarre Architectural Mind of Frederick KieslerSpinning wraparound bookshelves, continually evolving half-underground houses: A show at the Jewish Museum celebrates an eccentric visionary.
    By Justin Davidson
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    We Need Congestion Pricing, and Kathy Hochul Blew ItShe threw us under the bus (and it’s stuck in traffic).
    By Justin Davidson
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    The Low-Key Inventiveness of SO-IL’s Apartment BuildingsThree midsize Brooklyn projects display unusual, flexible architectural thinking.
    By Justin Davidson
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    Where NIMBYs Got Their Veto PowerHow a progressive movement to give more power to neighborhoods brought us to our current housing impasse.
    By Justin Davidson
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    JAPAN-ARCHITECTURE-CULTURE-LIFESTYLE-TOILETS
    Tokyo’s Public Toilets Will Leave New Yorkers SobbingWith civic envy and political fury.
    By Justin Davidson
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    CENTRAL PARK, NEW YORK, USA - SEPTEMBER 15, 2023. Sightseeing tourists waiting to take photos for social media in a popular viewpoint in Central Park
    The Supertalls Have Walled In Central ParkFrom the Sheep Meadow or the Reservoir, they’re impossible to not see.
    By Justin Davidson
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    Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky Was More Than Her Hyperorganized KitchenA new show devoted to the Austrian architect reveals her idealism and ambition.
    By Justin Davidson
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    The Streets of Pre–New YorkThe New-York Historical Society shows the city through its earliest maps — and it remains, if faintly, recognizable in ours.
    By Justin Davidson
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    The Googleplex Is GrowingGoogle’s new St. John’s Terminal headquarters, meant to lure workers back to the office, is a city within a building.
    By Justin Davidson
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    The Showman Becomes the RealistBjarke Ingels and the limitations of building in New York.
    By Justin Davidson
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    A Brewery Conversion in Harlem That Looks Like DUMBOAt the Manhattanville Factory District, the very old fuses with biotech and movie production.
    By Justin Davidson
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    A Bad Office Can (Maybe) Become a Good ApartmentThe challenges and complexities of cubicles out, bedrooms in.
    By Justin Davidson
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    Our Radical, Practical NYCHA MakeoverFor Curbed, Peterson Rich’s architects propose balconies, energy efficiency, and adding mixed-income low-rises.
    By Justin Davidson
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    Making Headway on the Perfect New York StreetTwo years after our last close look, real signs of progress.
    By Justin Davidson
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    Los Angeles After the FreewayA less car-dependent L.A., already in motion, may have something to teach the rest of the country.
    By Justin Davidson
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    The New Jersey Hindu Temple Covered With 10,000 SculpturesMarble elephants, ample parking, and a federal investigation into how it all got built.
    By Justin Davidson
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    Thomas Heatherwick Thinks Nearly All New Buildings Are BoringA critique of his critique.
    By Justin Davidson
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    Light-Drenched Offices Fill the Shell of Domino SugarA refinery with a dirty past, spotlessly reimagined.
    By Justin Davidson
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    Louis Armstrong’s Wonderful World Was in QueensA museum to a cultural legend emphasizes his unpretentious life at home.
    By Justin Davidson
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    Need Housing? Need a Rail Line? Stack Them Up.Studio V’s proposal for a Borough Park rail cut.
    By Justin Davidson
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    Janette Sadik-Khan on Getting Congestion Pricing Right‘We don’t look ready.”
    By Justin Davidson
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    The Two Newest Luxury Towers Are a MoodCharcoal and bronze dominate at Brooklyn’s tallest building and Adjaye’s latest.
    By Justin Davidson
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    Reconsidering the Grand Civic StaircaseAt Steven Holl’s Hunters Point Library and across the city, a familiar architectural gesture has become a trap.
    By Justin Davidson
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    David Adjaye, Falling StarchitectCelebrity architects are propped up by a hive of workers. His may undo him.
    By Justin Davidson
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    Two Penn Station Plans That Finally Look PromisingCould they converge to make the nation’s worst rail hub much better?
    By Justin Davidson
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    Is the Spherical Listening Room at the Shed an Innovation or a Gimmick?Trying out the Sonic Sphere.
    By Justin Davidson
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    Lever House Gets a Squeaky-Clean RestorationPrecisely reproducing its opening-day sheen. Next up: the Waldorf.
    By Justin Davidson
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    Congestion Pricing’s Pitfalls and How to Avoid ThemLessons from London’s 20 years of experience.
    By Justin Davidson
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    Developing Governors Island in Order to Save ItA plan that aims to preserve both its low-rise nature and the earth.
    By Justin Davidson
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    The American Museum of Natural History Enters Its Modern Stone AgeThe new Gilder Center has folds of pink granite outside, rough shotcrete swoops within.
    By Justin Davidson
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    The Mexican Architect Making Sublime Modern Buildings From Clay and Pine NeedlesUsing traditional Oaxacan techniques, Juan José Santibañez’s museums and schools have a tactile beauty.
    By Justin Davidson
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    The Bronx Children’s Museum Is Just Antic EnoughLike a peek into a happy kid’s brain.
    By Justin Davidson
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    MoMA’s ‘Architecture Now’ Exists in Some Other New YorkOne that has fewer impediments and more money.
    By Justin Davidson
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    One Way to a Better City: Ask Disabled People to Design ItWouldn’t everyone fare a little better if (to take just one example) airport luggage-screening counters were lower?
    By Justin Davidson
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    Two Supportive-Housing Projects Make the Case for Building Many MoreThey’re cheaper than the alternatives, acceptable to the neighbors, and successful among people who were living on the street.
    By Justin Davidson
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    An Office Is Wherever We Decide It IsA new book chronicles employers’, architects’, and employees’ relentless reinvention of the workplace.
    By Justin Davidson
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    Walkable City’s Jeff Speck Knows There Are Worse Things Than Crawling TrafficTen years on, he reflects on pipe dreams turned real (like California’s ADU boom) and not (like truly safe streets).
    By Justin Davidson
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    Can the Hochul-Adams New New York Actually Happen?The Hochul-Adams mission statement is big on sweeping ideas — and way short on explaining how any of this happens.
    By Justin Davidson
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    The Upside-Down Building Is No Longer NovelAt Greenpoint’s new Eagle + West, cantilevers are just one more architectural gimmick.
    By Justin Davidson
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