Art
Sacred Bones and the Catacomb Saint of Manhattan
Catholic churches in Europe host as many bones as a graveyard, with bits of saints and intact incorrupt bodies encased in glass and displayed on ornate altars.
Architecture
Art
A Manhattan Art Deco Landmark Reopens After Decades
One of New York City's most impressive Art Deco buildings has been closed to the public since the 1970s, but you can now visit its lobby and examine the marble-clad treasure yourself.
News
Inside the Skeleton of Rem Koolhaas's Under-Construction Miami Beach Forum
MIAMI BEACH — A new cultural center designed by Rem Koolhaas with OMA is aiming to give Miami Beach a year-round multidisciplinary arts hub.
Art
Sole Surviving Jean Prouvé Prefab Military Shelter Surfaces at Design Miami
MIAMI BEACH — With prefabricated housing now essential in addressing housing shortages, emergency relief, and even architecture in Antarctica, the mid-20th century pop-up designs of the late Jean Prouvé are receiving renewed attention.
Art
Modeling Life, Death, and Eternity in the Ancient Americas
Miniature mummies carved from wood and carefully wrapped in tiny shrouds overlook a model of a Chimú palace, one of the small-scale representations of a lost precolonial world in Design for Eternity: Architectural Models from the Ancient Americas.
Art
Remembering Architecture Through Fragments and Impressions
Buildings, in New York City especially, are so overwhelmingly big that they can sometimes seem to occupy our space and not the other way around.
Books
The Decadent Dakota: New York's Luxury Apartment Pioneer
There's no shortage of myths and legends about the Dakota, that formidable, castle-like apartment building at West 72nd Street and Central Park West in Manhattan.
News
Library of Congress Acquires Portfolio of 681 Photos of US Public Libraries
There are over 16,000 public libraries in the United States, and although photographer Robert Dawson only visited a fraction — 526 over two decades — his series presents a diverse portrait of this community space.
Books
Antarctic Architecture for Scientists at the Edge of the World
Antarctic exploration no longer involves frigid winters lodged in wooden shacks, or the threat of your ship being smashed to pieces in the ice with no means of communicating home.
News
The Most Endangered Heritage Sites of 2016, from Cuban Art Schools to the Oldest Underwater City
The World Monuments Fund has announced 50 sites around the globe that are in danger of disappearing due to development, war, neglect, natural disaster, or deliberate destruction.
Art
The Architectural Legacy of Pizza Hut Restaurants
While our love for pizza will never die, the dine-in locations of the red-roofed Pizza Hut have been gradually shuttering across the world.
Art
In Mexico City, a New Design School Campus Signals a Shift for a Scruffy Neighborhood
MEXICO CITY — The opening of a design school campus is hardly news in the US — nor is their mass closing, for that matter — but in Mexico, where institutions devoted to training students for careers in media and the arts are few and far between, it's a big deal.