In Brief
A Tiny Danish Town Will Get Western Europe's Biggest Skyscraper
The planned project will rise 1,049 feet tall in a rural town of just 7,000 people.
Architecture
In Brief
London’s Skyline Will Bloom With Proposed “Tulip” Building
From the architects of the Gherkin comes another glass skyscraper full of eccentricities. City planners have put the building on track for approval despite objections from the mayor's office.
News
Designers Want to Build Golden Wall Around Mar-a-Lago to “Keep the ‘Bad Guys’ In”
A Chicago-based firm has launched a satirical campaign to build a border wall replica around the Mar-A-Lago. They will donate all proceeds to the International Refugee Assistance Program.
News
Architects Reimagine Central Park After a Fictional Eco-Terrorist Attack
Competitors for the University of Pennsylvania's ICONOCLAST Design Competition were asked to design a post-apocalyptic Central Park after a fictional eco-terrorist attack left "Bill Di Blastoff" looking for a more democratic, ecological, and beautiful plan.
News
Strand Bookstore Fights to Keep Its Building Off New York City's Registry of Preserved Landmarks
"By landmarking the Strand, you can also destroy a piece of New York history," Strand owner Nancy Bass Wyden said. "We’re operating on very thin margins here."
In Brief
Russia Strengthens Saudi Ties with Offer of a Kandinsky Exhibition, while Prominent Architects Bow Out of $500B Saudi Megacity
Saudi Arabia's financial prominence in the arts has been under active evaluation in the weeks following journalist Jamal Khashoggi's disappearance.
News
Another Wave of Gentrification Hits the Lower East Side
Hundreds of LES residents voiced their opposition to the proposed luxury high-rises in the area mainly populated by low-income people of color.
Art
Yugoslavia's Complicated Modernism
The 20th-century architecture of Yugoslavia was the result of a concerted national effort to modernize and unify.
In Brief
As US Rules for Asbestos Are Sidestepped, a Russian Manufacturer Emblazons Trump's Face on Their Shipments
There were at least two things Americans should have banned outright in the 1970s when they had the chance: asbestos and Donald Trump.
News
Danish Artist Drowns Le Corbusier's Most Famous Building in Fjord
Somewhere in the distance, Celine Dion sings "My Heart Will Go On" as she pours one out for the French architect-idealist.
Comics
LA Buildings that Are Shaped Like Other Things
Here are a few of my favorite buildings from LA's golden age of programmatic architecture in the 1920s.
Opinion
Kanye West Helped Create These Designs for Prison Chic Prefab Concrete Houses
After music and fashion, Kim Kardashian's husband is trying his hand at architecture via his new firm, YEEZY Home.