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Does your building lack a 13th floor? Here’s why
1+ day, 18+ hour ago (439+ words) Are you feeling lucky? The power of numerical superstitions across the world influences people more than they care to admit, including this one foible present in nearly every New York City high-rise, according to a new study. NYC developers skip…...
‘Terrible idea’: Trump’s latest ‘architectural folly’ slammed as ‘tragic absurdity
2+ day, 19+ hour ago (310+ words) President Donald Trump’s plan to paint the Eisenhower Executive Office Building white to match the White House is drawing fierce opposition from preservation experts, who warn the project could permanently damage one of Washington’s most significant historic structures. More than…...
Fire Ravaged an Architectural Gem. It May Cost Too Much to Restore It.
4+ day, 16+ hour ago (846+ words) A planned reconstruction of the Glasgow School of Art — a Charles Rennie Mackintosh masterpiece that is one of Britain’s most celebrated buildings but was ravaged by fire eight years ago — is up in the air after its owners said on…...
20 years and $3.7 million later, a historic Spanish-style Wallace Neff home returns to glory
5+ day, 22+ hour ago (937+ words) When restoring their 1925 Wallace Neff-designed home in La Cañada Flintridge, Pete and Teri Lauenstein wanted kitchen tile that would make their home period-accurate. They turned to Malibu Tile Works, but the stock colors weren’t right — too bright, too lemony, not…...
What that wobbling New York office tower reveals about America’s housing crisis
2+ week, 3+ day ago (341+ words) “Gotta go,” a young woman murmured into her phone, slipping into a gaggle of gawking New Yorkers pointing and staring at a teetering office tower in the heart of midtown Manhattan on Tuesday. “This building’s like collapsing in New York....
Mystery artist steps forward as future of iconic bird atop L.A. eyesore in doubt
3+ week, 6+ day ago (1057+ words) Pillarhenge is an eyesore. Since construction at the Eagle Rock site — so nicknamed after a decrepit colonnade — first stalled in 2008, the only thing that accumulated faster than the garbage and graffiti were the epithets from outraged community members. While many…...
He dreamed of a Midcentury compound on an ‘unbuildable’ L.A. hillside. It took 12 years
1+ mon, 1+ day ago (1057+ words) Diego Cano-Lasso had been looking for an architectural project when he found two hillside lots with spectacular views for sale in Mt. Washington. With work scarce in 2012, the SCI-Arc graduate persuaded his family to invest in the property, and together…...
Lorcan O’Herlihy, Architect of Innovative Urban Housing, Dies at 66
1+ mon, 3+ day ago (981+ words) Lorcan O’Herlihy, a Dublin-born architect who brought new ways of thinking about high-density urban living to housing projects around his adopted city of Los Angeles, incorporating expanded communal spaces, pocket parks and rooftop gardens, died on June 14 at his home…...
I went from a trailer park to the Senate. Architecture matters.
1+ mon, 4+ day ago (238+ words) Jim Banks, a Republican, is a U.S. senator from Indiana and an author of the pending Beautifying Federal Civic Architecture Act of 2025. Congress has already recognized the aesthetic importance of this area, declaring it a “substantially completed work of civic art…...
All Americans deserve beautiful architecture
1+ mon, 4+ day ago (232+ words) Jim Banks, a Republican, is a U.S. senator from Indiana and an author of the pending Beautifying Federal Civic Architecture Act of 2025. Congress has already recognized the aesthetic importance of this area, declaring it a “substantially completed work of civic art…...