The building looks very much like a spaceship, which is what locals here have been calling it since its arrival in the late 1980s a term that was at f...
Michael Henry Adams | Posted 09.06.2009 | Style
The Obamas aren't coming to Newport to vacation, but one hundred or even fifty years ago they would have. An idyllic spot, it's about to become the subject of several new books.
David Finkle | Posted 09.03.2009 | Living
For a long time, I've insisted that civilization reached its highest peak with the invention of the porch.
Carine Fabius | Posted 08.29.2009 | Living
Juergen is himself a brilliant photographer whose super clean, flawless and luminous architectural photography turns any building into a work of art.
GlobalPost | Posted 08.28.2009 | World
Just steps from Lubyanka, the feared headquarters of the KGB and its post-Soviet successor, stands a building that was once home to toys and laughter....
F. Kaid Benfield | Posted 08.24.2009 | Politics
One of the ways in which city life isn't what it used to be is that so much of what used to be public is no longer public. As a result, some of our humanity is lost, to say nothing of efficient travel.
Cameron Sinclair | Posted 08.24.2009 | Style
The White House's recognition honors the work of individuals from around the world who are committed to working together through the power of design to improve the lives of others.
Mairi Beautyman | Posted 09.10.2009 | Green
Is any green step a step in the right direction? How do we differentiate between progress and just plain treading water?
Stephen Drucker | Posted 08.17.2009 | Style
The photographer Julius Shulman died this week at age 98, and I think someone should just say it: Julius Shulman was responsible for the greatest architecture photo ever taken.
treehugger.com | Posted 08.06.2009 | Green
Brad Pitt's "Make It Right" Foundation has released a new set of duplex designs for New Orleans, by yet another round of big name architects from arou...
Cameron Sinclair | Posted 08.01.2009 | Politics
Many schools in this country are in utter disrepair and the outdated portable classrooms that dot the landscape of the American school system are harmful to the health of our children.
Mairi Beautyman | Posted 09.10.2009 | Green
Nothing appears particularly green about the building -- which will sit on an "Astroturf-covered angled landscape" and follows no green building criteria -- other than the "conservation" theme.
Frank Gruber | Posted 07.26.2009 | Living
If conventional suburban development is our civilization, it has had its discontents for a long time. It's worth considering what the alternatives are.
Salena Tramel | Posted 10.29.2009 | World
Not only are some of the ideas coming out of Gaza extremely creative, but they also present a modern twist on working with indigenous knowledge and the environment.
dornob | Posted 07.17.2009 | Green
In increasingly dense urban areas, sometimes the only way to build is up. And with a movement to grow more food locally and to add more green to our u...
Frank Gruber | Posted 07.13.2009 | Politics
Theories were created for all kinds of urbanism except for the kind that became dominant in America: suburban sprawl.
A. Siegel | Posted 07.11.2009 | Green
Those struggling to delay action to turn the tides on Global Warming's rising seas come from many angles and bring to the table many truthiness-laden arguments.
Edward Lifson | Posted 07.10.2009 | Chicago
If New York can close a part of Broadway, why can't Chicago close a part of Monroe?
Tate Gunnerson | Posted 07.10.2009 | New York
I arrive early for my afternoon appointment at interior designer Jayne Michaels' Sutton Place co-op. It's a sunny May afternoon, uncharacteristically hot and humid, but Jayne's pre-war two bedroom, two bath feels cool and relaxing.
treehugger.com | Posted 07.09.2009 | Green
CPG Consultants has done a lovely job here, all while being sensitive to environmental issues: the building's greenest feature, in more ways th...
Lisa Guest | Posted 07.05.2009 | Living
My life has been one sacrifice after another. It would have been simpler to lower my ideals, to set my sights on something easier, more mainstream. I couldn't do that.
Tallulah Morehead | Posted 07.05.2009 | Entertainment
This movie is pro-selfishness and egoism (which is just egotism misspelled), and anti-altruism. It preaches, at length and in a superior tone, that Altruism is Bad. And it means it.
Cameron Sinclair | Posted 06.29.2009 | Green
It's enough to make a San Franciscans choke on their morning bowl of organic hand-rolled granola but Dallas is developing the greenest city block in America through a competition called Re:Vision Dallas.
Barbara Isenberg | Posted 06.25.2009 | Style
As a child Gehry would create little cities, bridges and buildings out of wood scraps with his grandmother on the kitchen floor.
Edward Lifson | Posted 06.22.2009 | Chicago
With a stunning addition by architect Renzo Piano -- filled with natural light and beautifully detailed-- the Art Institute of Chicago becomes the sec...
nytimes.com | PENELOPE GREEN | Posted 09.13.2009 | Style