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What that wobbling New York office tower reveals about America’s housing crisis
1+ week, 4+ 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, 20+ hour 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
3+ week, 4+ 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
3+ week, 6+ 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.
4+ week, 18+ hour 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
4+ week, 22+ hour 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…...
To Take Us to the Heavens, James Turrell Went Underground
1+ mon, 2+ day ago (678+ words) “In the context of the skyspaces, I always wanted to enter Earth and emerge in the heavens,” the artist said. “This one does that.” To enter “As Seen Below,” you travel through a curving passage that leads from the museum’s…...
Art Galleries Are Not OK
1+ mon, 2+ day ago (492+ words) I’ve spent nearly 30 years in the art world. For half that time I led Art Basel, the global art fair now staged five times a year — in Miami Beach; Paris; Hong Kong; Doha, Qatar; and, this week at its namesake…...
Decades Ago, She Built a Virtual City. Now the Artist Cao Fei Looks Ahead, Again.
1+ mon, 2+ day ago (1007+ words) A skating ramp with walls scrawled and sprayed on by local graffiti artists is not what visitors ordinarily see when they step inside Kunstmuseum Basel, Gegenwart, the contemporary art branch of the city’s main museum. Both works are in the…...
Small, Unloved and Unkempt, These Unusual Properties Are Hot in Australia
1+ mon, 5+ day ago (812+ words) Bits of metal poked through the floor, paint peeled from the walls and “caution” signs warned visitors to watch their step on the uneven floor. The building was dark inside. Yet one potential buyer described it as “incredible.” Welcome to…...