At 17, Liu Jiakun was sent to labor in the countryside as part of China’s “re-education” efforts during the Cultural Revolution. “I didn’t see a clear...
M. Paul Friedberg, a landscape architect whose playgrounds, pocket parks and plazas transformed once-gritty areas of New York City, using familiar urban materials to do so,...
Supported by SKIP ADVERTISEMENT As “The Brutalist” heads into Oscar night with 10 nominations, Hollywood is clamoring for its next big architecture hit. Our illustrator has...
When the New Museum reopens this fall on New York’s Lower East Side, after a major expansion that shuttered it in March 2024, it will almost...
One of the most anticipated events of an overstuffed Mexico City Art Week earlier this month promised to be a surreal collision of architecture, performance art,...
By Design takes a closer look at the world of design, in moments big and small. NOT LONG AFTER buying their home in the early months...
Will a different city emerge from the Los Angeles fires? Time and again fires have fast-tracked urban change. London after the Great Fire of 1666 rewrote...
The Palais Garnier in Paris is among the world’s oldest theaters that still functions more or less in its original state. And long before the appearance...
