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How a California homebuilder remade the Interior West

The organizers behind Los Angeles’s latest Olympics run seem content with standing still.

Address A Building

Van Nuys Government Center is a stand-in for downtown democracy flung out to the suburban hinterlands.

I can’t disentangle dingbat apartments from the memories of the years I have spent in Los Angeles.

The garden is a livewire biology of gossip, a thing heard through—but also is itself—a grapevine.

But if models are a myriad of things and also not those things, what is a hefty volume full of discourse-heavy texts and chockablock with photographs of models?

  • Sphere, designed by Populous, opened in Las Vegas in October 2023.

Without its umbilical connection to the Venetian Expo, at any time this Sphere might just roll away.

An exhibition’s celebration of Helena Arahuete’s draftsmanship reiterates the incredible technical facility and breadth of knowledge required to be a good architect.

To read Anton Wagner reflexively means to engage with his treatise not as a product of its historical context, but a refraction of our own.

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Symposium
9:00 a.m. GMT
Mar 28, 2024
TK/TK Project & Newcastle University Farrell Centre
Lecture
5:30 a.m. EDT
Mar 28, 2024
The University of Hong Kong
Lecture
5:30 p.m. EDT
Mar 28, 2024
City College of New York Spitzer School of Architecture
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Skyline!

Skyline Dispatches

Prospect Heights — Lecture topics ranged from Palestinian liberation to the ethics of AI; a Marxist theater troupe from Vermont performed twice.
Midtown — In place of the transit nerds I had expected to find were aspiring comics and adherents of the funny pages.
Los Angeles — A joyous confluence of art and architecture, activated by a respectful intrusion of movement and sound throughout the (relatively) modest modernist villa.
GRAMERCY PARK — The titular chase through the city and the Lincoln Tunnel ends in a New Jersey landfill.