Kenneth Frampton   Peter Buchanan   Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani   El pasado verano, The New York Times Magazine reunió vía Zoom a tres arquitectos —Toshiko Mori, Annabelle Selldorf y Vincent Van Duysen—, dos diseñadores —Es Devlin y Tom Dixon— y tres periodistas del diario —Tom Delavan, Nikil Saval y Kurt Soller— p

The New York Times   John Grippe   The Project Behind a Front Page Full of Names. A presentation of obituaries and death notices from newspapers around the country tries to frame incalculable loss... [+]

The New York Times   Fred A. Bernstein   Henry N. Cobb, who in 70 years as an architect — more than half of them in partnership with I.M. Pei — designed some of the country’s most prominent buildings, including Boston’s blue-glass John Hancock Tower, the tallest building in New England, die

The New York Times   John Gendall   Representatives from Brazil’s scientific community and government will head to Antarctica this month to inaugurate its new Comandante Ferraz Research Station, which replaces a facility lost to fire in 2012. The two low-slung buildings, designed by Es

The New York Times   Nikil Saval   Writing about Shigeru Ban is unlike writing about nearly any other living architect, in the sense that most of his important work cannot be seen or experienced in person. This is not to say that it is hidden or out of the way. He has, like many archi

The New York Times   Michael Kimmelman   Frank Lloyd Wright’s Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is still a shock on Fifth Avenue. The architecture declines to fade into the background or get old, never mind the building turns 60 this month. Happy birthday to one of modern architecture’s transcen

The New York Times   Michael Kimmelman   The museum added 47,000 square feet of gallery space, a spiffy new canopy and a restaurant. “It’s smart, surgical, sprawling and slightly soulless,” our critic writes. In 1939, the Museum of Modern Art opened its first purpose-built home on West 53rd

The New York Times   Ted Loos   The French architect and designer is getting an exhibition to match her stature, with 400 works by Perriand and her circle on view through Oct. 5 at the Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris. Perriand lived from 1903 to 1999, nearly spanning the 20th cen

Justo Isasi   El pasado 25 de abril la viñeta de un dibujante portugués en la edición internacional del New York Times desataba una polémica universal. El comentario mudo pero mordaz de Moreira sobre la relación entre el presidente Trump y el primer ministro Netan

The New York Times   Paul Goldberger   Fred A. Bernstein   Mr. Pelli’s works included the cluster of towers making up the World Financial Center (now called Brookfield Place) at Battery Park City in New York, famous for the glass-roofed Winter Garden at its center; the Pacific Design Center in Los Angeles, k

The New York Times   Aurelien Breeden   Elian Peltier   Liz Alderman   Richard Pérez-Peña   Exactly how the fire broke out is now the subject of an intensive investigation by the French authorities, who are so far treating the disaster as an accident. Much remains to be learned. But already it is emerging that Notre-Dame, irreplaceable as i

The New York Times   Lisa Abend   It was designed by Bjarke Ingels, the renowned Danish architect, and cost $24 million to build. It was inaugurated by Queen Margrethe II, Denmark’s reigning monarch. And it now accommodates a celebrity couple with peculiar eating habits and an almost

The New York Times   Joshua Barone   Christo announced that he had received permission from the French government and the country’s Center for National Monuments to wrap the Arc de Triomphe, one of the most famous landmarks in Paris, next year from April 6 through 19. The project, “L’Ar

The New York Times    Michael Kimmelman   You can see it on the skyline or along the Hudson River, upending Manhattan’s silhouette. The largest mixed-use private real estate venture in American history, it is called Hudson Yards. The first massive tower emerged at the apex of the High Line,

The New York Times    Arthur Lubow   It took 18 years for a collector couple to build a state-of-the-art home for their one-of-a-kind collection.The weekend house built for Pamela and C. Richard Kramlich by the architects Herzog & de Meuron is in Napa Valley (California). Over the last

The New York Times    Paul Goldberger   Kevin Roche, the Dublin-born American architect whose modernist buildings, at once bold and refined, gave striking new identities to corporations, museums and institutions around the world, died on Friday at his home in Guilford, Conn. He was 96. His

The New York Times    Jori Finkel   En 2011, las autoridades chinas detuvieron al artista Ai Weiwei en un aeropuerto de Pekín, incautaron su pasaporte, las computadoras portátiles y los discos duros que tenía en su estudio y lo encarcelaron durante 81 días sin cargos formales. Lo acusa

The New York Times    Charles V. Bagli   The developer Harry B. Macklowe and his team — Moed de Armas & Shannon Architects and Gensler — submitted a preliminary application to the Department of City Planning outlining his intention to build a new super tower, east of Fifth Avenue between 51

The New York Times   Ben Mauk   The Eurasian Pole of Inaccessibility is a striking name for an absence. It is the point farthest from a sea or ocean on the planet. Here, among some of the last surviving pastoral nomads in Central Asia, nestled between two branches of the Tian Shan

The New York Times    Karen Weise   The Seattle area, home to both Microsoft and Amazon, is a potent symbol of the affordable housing crisis that has followed the explosive growth of tech hubs. Now Microsoft, arguing that the industry has an interest and responsibility to help people l

The New York Times   Karen Weise   Las dos ubicaciones, en Long Island City en Queens y Crystal City en Arlington, a las afueras de Washington D. C., albergarán a la larga a por lo menos veinticinco mil empleados cada una, dijo la compañía en un comunicado. El anuncio dio por terminad

The New York Times    Most of the time, The New York Times asks you to read something. Today we are inviting you, simply, to look. On this page you will find maps showing almost every building in the United States. Why did we make such a thing? We did it as an opportunity