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    JAPAN-ARCHITECTURE-CULTURE-LIFESTYLE-TOILETS
    Tokyo’s Public Toilets Will Leave New Yorkers SobbingWith civic envy and political fury.
    By Justin Davidson
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    CENTRAL PARK, NEW YORK, USA - SEPTEMBER 15, 2023. Sightseeing tourists waiting to take photos for social media in a popular viewpoint in Central Park
    The Supertalls Have Walled In Central ParkFrom the Sheep Meadow or the Reservoir, they’re impossible to not see.
    By Justin Davidson
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    Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky Was More Than Her Hyperorganized KitchenA new show devoted to the Austrian architect reveals her idealism and ambition.
    By Justin Davidson
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    The Streets of Pre–New YorkThe New-York Historical Society shows the city through its earliest maps — and it remains, if faintly, recognizable in ours.
    By Justin Davidson
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    The Googleplex Is GrowingGoogle’s new St. John’s Terminal headquarters, meant to lure workers back to the office, is a city within a building.
    By Justin Davidson
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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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    A Brewery Conversion in Harlem That Looks Like DUMBOAt the Manhattanville Factory District, the very old fuses with biotech and movie production.
    By Justin Davidson
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    A Bad Office Can (Maybe) Become a Good ApartmentThe challenges and complexities of cubicles out, bedrooms in.
    By Justin Davidson
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    Our Radical, Practical NYCHA MakeoverFor Curbed, Peterson Rich’s architects propose balconies, energy efficiency, and adding mixed-income low-rises.
    By Justin Davidson
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    Making Headway on the Perfect New York StreetTwo years after our last close look, real signs of progress.
    By Justin Davidson
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    Los Angeles After the FreewayA less car-dependent L.A., already in motion, may have something to teach the rest of the country.
    By Justin Davidson
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    The New Jersey Hindu Temple Covered With 10,000 SculpturesMarble elephants, ample parking, and a federal investigation into how it all got built.
    By Justin Davidson
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    Thomas Heatherwick Thinks Nearly All New Buildings Are BoringA critique of his critique.
    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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    Louis Armstrong’s Wonderful World Was in QueensA museum to a cultural legend emphasizes his unpretentious life at home.
    By Justin Davidson
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    Need Housing? Need a Rail Line? Stack Them Up.Studio V’s proposal for a Borough Park rail cut.
    By Justin Davidson
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    Janette Sadik-Khan on Getting Congestion Pricing Right‘We don’t look ready.”
    By Justin Davidson
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    The Two Newest Luxury Towers Are a MoodCharcoal and bronze dominate at Brooklyn’s tallest building and Adjaye’s latest.
    By Justin Davidson
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    Reconsidering the Grand Civic StaircaseAt Steven Holl’s Hunters Point Library and across the city, a familiar architectural gesture has become a trap.
    By Justin Davidson
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    David Adjaye, Falling StarchitectCelebrity architects are propped up by a hive of workers. His may undo him.
    By Justin Davidson
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    Two Penn Station Plans That Finally Look PromisingCould they converge to make the nation’s worst rail hub much better?
    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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    Lever House Gets a Squeaky-Clean RestorationPrecisely reproducing its opening-day sheen. Next up: the Waldorf.
    By Justin Davidson
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    Congestion Pricing’s Pitfalls and How to Avoid ThemLessons from London’s 20 years of experience.
    By Justin Davidson
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    Developing Governors Island in Order to Save ItA plan that aims to preserve both its low-rise nature and the earth.
    By Justin Davidson
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    The American Museum of Natural History Enters Its Modern Stone AgeThe new Gilder Center has folds of pink granite outside, rough shotcrete swoops within.
    By Justin Davidson
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    The Mexican Architect Making Sublime Modern Buildings From Clay and Pine NeedlesUsing traditional Oaxacan techniques, Juan José Santibañez’s museums and schools have a tactile beauty.
    By Justin Davidson
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    The Bronx Children’s Museum Is Just Antic EnoughLike a peek into a happy kid’s brain.
    By Justin Davidson
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    MoMA’s ‘Architecture Now’ Exists in Some Other New YorkOne that has fewer impediments and more money.
    By Justin Davidson
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    The Upper West Side’s Zone of Pedestrian DeathThe area around 96th Street is dangerous. And it’s hardly the worst in town.
    By Justin Davidson
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    One Way to a Better City: Ask Disabled People to Design ItWouldn’t everyone fare a little better if (to take just one example) airport luggage-screening counters were lower?
    By Justin Davidson
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    Two Supportive-Housing Projects Make the Case for Building Many MoreThey’re cheaper than the alternatives, acceptable to the neighbors, and successful among people who were living on the street.
    By Justin Davidson
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    An Office Is Wherever We Decide It IsA new book chronicles employers’, architects’, and employees’ relentless reinvention of the workplace.
    By Justin Davidson
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    Walkable City’s Jeff Speck Knows There Are Worse Things Than Crawling TrafficTen years on, he reflects on pipe dreams turned real (like California’s ADU boom) and not (like truly safe streets).
    By Justin Davidson
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    Can the Hochul-Adams New New York Actually Happen?The Hochul-Adams mission statement is big on sweeping ideas — and way short on explaining how any of this happens.
    By Justin Davidson
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    The Upside-Down Building Is No Longer NovelAt Greenpoint’s new Eagle + West, cantilevers are just one more architectural gimmick.
    By Justin Davidson
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    New St. Nick: The Glowed-up Greek Church at Ground ZeroThe tiny marble Greek Orthodox church next to the World Trade Center finally opens, 21 years after its predecessor was destroyed.
    By Justin Davidson
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    La Guardia Is Kind of RitzySky bridges have become something of a status symbol for airports around the world. La Guardia has two.
    By James D. Walsh
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    When Caves Were Avant-Garde ArchitectureAt the Noguchi Museum, the joys (and damp) of living below grade.
    By Justin Davidson
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    Out of Horror, Beauty: A Visit to the New Sandy Hook Memorial“It was worth the wait.”
    By Justin Davidson
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    Norman Foster’s Skyscrapers Are Perfect for the City That Just DisappearedAn impeccable space for office work arrives with everything—except a guarantee of office work.
    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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    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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    On the Vision — and Limits — of a Century of Grand Urban PlansThe Regional Plan Association marks its birthday with a show in Grand Central Terminal.
    By Justin Davidson
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    The Emigrant Becomes a Giant Projector ScreenRestored bank building now holds digitally reproduced gold.
    By Justin Davidson
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    Morningside Heights Gets That Much HigherTwo seminary campuses monetize their air.
    By Justin Davidson
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    Waterline Square Is Better Than We Had a Right to ExpectThe last piece of Riverside South clicks into place.
    By Justin Davidson
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    What to Do With a Crumbling ChurchWest Park Presbyterian wants to demolish its deteriorating landmark building. We asked an architecture firm for a plan to keep it standing.
    By Justin Davidson
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    The Morgan Library’s Gilded Age Garden Gets a Glow-upA restoration that looks as rich as it should.
    By Justin Davidson
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    Two Upscale Developments Offer Two Divergent Futures for the South BronxBrookfield’s Bankside looks to Manhattan; the all-affordable Peninsula aims to raise the standard for locals.
    By Justin Davidson
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