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    The Showman Becomes the RealistBjarke Ingels and the limitations of building in New York.
    By Justin Davidson
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    Light-Drenched Offices Fill the Shell of Domino SugarA refinery with a dirty past, spotlessly reimagined.
    By Justin Davidson
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    Is the Spherical Listening Room at the Shed an Innovation or a Gimmick?Trying out the Sonic Sphere.
    By Justin Davidson
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    Keeping It Weird at 550 MadisonThe former AT&T/Sony tower gets a few of its spikier details sanded off but retains a lot of its Johnsonian strangeness.
    By Justin Davidson
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    A One-Dimensional Robert Moses in Straight Line CrazyRalph Fiennes stars in this talky, static retelling of Moses’s misdeeds.
    By Jackson McHenry
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    The New Geffen Hall Is Open. How Does It Sound?It’s too early to say. But the inaugural concert today (with two very different types of ensembles) was encouraging.
    By Justin Davidson
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    Straight Line Crazy Gives Us Robert Moses Without the FireA very talky, very static play.
    By Christopher Bonanos
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    An Exhibit Imagines How Design Can Reconnect CommunitiesIf only it weren’t illegal.
    By Justin Davidson
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    La Guardia Airport Is No Longer a HellscapeThe new Terminal B: not bad at all!
    By Justin Davidson
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    The Battery Maritime Building Is Beautiful, But It’s No Longer OursA gracious public structure taken mostly private.
    By Justin Davidson
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    Frank Gehry’s Eisenhower Memorial in D.C. Is a Huge AnticlimaxIt somehow tells us less about Ike than it intends to.
    By Justin Davidson
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    The Observation Deck at One Vanderbilt Is a Ridiculous Place“Surely there’s a better way than assaulting them with lights and mirrors.”
    By Justin Davidson
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    Manhattan West Is (a Little Bit) What Hudson Yards Should Have BeenIt’s still a corporate simulacrum of a city, but given the history of such gestures, it’s surprising they got it anywhere close to right.
    By Justin Davidson
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    A Slice of the SkyThe supertall 111 West 57th is what the ruling class builds for itself.
    By Justin Davidson
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    Little Island Won Me OverThe tiny public-but-private garden squeezes in a multitude of experiences.
    By Justin Davidson