Kenneth Frampton   Peter Buchanan   Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani   Last summer, The New York Times Magazine held a Zoom gathering of three architects (Toshiko Mori, Annabelle Selldorf, Vincent Van Duysen), two designers (Es Devlin, Tom Dixon), and three journalists of the newspaper (Tom Delavan, Nikil Saval, Kurt So

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

Justo Isasi   On 25 April a Portuguese cartoonist’s drawing in the international edition of The New York Times sparked off a universal storm of controversy. Moreira’s silent but scathing commentary on the bond between President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu w

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    Robert D. McFadden   Florence Knoll Bassett, a pioneering designer and entrepreneur who created the modern look and feel of America’s postwar corporate office with sleek furniture, artistic textiles and an uncluttered, free-flowing workplace environment, died in Coral Ga

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   In 2011, Chinese authorities detained the artist Ai Weiwei at a Beijing airport, seizing his passport, laptops and hard drives from his studio and imprisoning him for 81 days without formal charges. The allegation was “economic crimes,” but many saw

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    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