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A Tall and Skinny NYC Skyscraper Is Being Compared to a Coffee Stirrer

by Sarah Rose Sharp April 21, 2022April 21, 2022

The super tall and skinny skyscraper, affectionately dubbed “the coffee stirrer,” was built at a 24:1 height-to-width ratio.

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A Photographer Captures the Magic of Venice’s Churches

by Jasmine Liu April 17, 2022April 15, 2022

100 Churches of Venice and the Lagoon by Alejandro Merizalde features religious temples from every corner of the Italian city and its islands.

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Julia Morgan, California’s First Licensed Female Architect

by Lauren Moya Ford March 8, 2022March 8, 2022

A new biography looks at the largely forgotten architect who executed more than 700 building projects in California, including the Hearst Castle.

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Mies van der Rohe’s Forgotten Frat House Design Is Resurrected and Repurposed

by Lauren Moya Ford February 27, 2022February 25, 2022

The newly unveiled 60-foot-wide, 140-foot-long steel and glass building is an exemplar of Mies’s signature understated but innovative style.

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How Painter-Architects Brought Built Spaces to Life

by Lauren Moya Ford February 14, 2022February 14, 2022

Architectural drawings were limited to mostly monochrome in Europe until color appeared in the 17th century.

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Thousands Pledge To Egg Jeff Bezos’s Mega-Yacht As It Passes Through Rotterdam Bridge

by Sarah Rose Sharp February 9, 2022February 9, 2022

“We don’t just take [Rotterdam] apart for the phallus symbol of a megalomaniac billionaire,” said the protest’s organizers, who oppose dismantling the historic bridge.

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A Teenager’s Dreamy Art Deco Bedroom From 1929

by Lauren Moya Ford February 6, 2022February 4, 2022

A new book reconstructs a unique teen bedroom from 1929 and resurrects Joseph Urban’s far-reaching but now-forgotten influence on modern American design.

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The Politics of “Santa Fe Style” Modernist Architecture

by Shaw Bowman January 30, 2022January 28, 2022

A new project looks at the modernist influences on the city’s residential designs.

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Climate-Conscious Hospital In Bangladesh Wins “Best New Building” Award

by Jasmine Liu January 30, 2022January 31, 2022

It beat out a German art gallery designed by David Chipperfield and a vehicle-free bridge in Denmark.

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A Treasure Trove of Midcentury Modern Architecture

by Sarah Rose Sharp December 1, 2021December 1, 2021

Breuer’s Bohemia is centered around the life and work of Marcel Breuer, but touches upon an entire cohort of Modernist influencers.

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Plans for a Billion Dollar College Dormitory Are a Strange Mix of Carceral and Utopian

by Luke Studebaker November 29, 2021November 29, 2021

The plans for Munger Hall may just be the most ruthlessly efficient way to house 4500 students.

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The Complicated Legacy of Modernist Minoru Yamasaki, Architect of World Trade Center

by Sophia Stewart November 28, 2021November 29, 2021

Yamasaki’s most well-known projects — the twin towers and the Pruit-Igoe housing project — were both destroyed on national television.

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