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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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    What’s a Bicycle For?A new book digs into our ambivalent relationship with life on two wheels.
    By Justin Davidson
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    The 18th Century’s Surround-Sound MachineInside the organ at St. Bartholomew’s.
    By Justin Davidson
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    Finding a Future for Ukraine’s Destroyed CitiesThe country’s planners want to reclaim its independent identity and plan for life after Russian oil.
    By Justin Davidson
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    An Exhibit Imagines How Design Can Reconnect CommunitiesIf only it weren’t illegal.
    By Justin Davidson
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    Lincoln Center Resets Itself as a Cultural Town Square for SpringQuinceañeras, dance parties, and underground jazz will animate the plaza, but will that energy extend past Labor Day?
    By Justin Davidson
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    Is There Still an Architectural Avant-Garde?If there is, it won’t look like a Zaha Hadid swoop.
    By Justin Davidson
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    The Museum of Natural History’s New Addition Is a Giant Concrete MarshmallowStudio Gang’s design aims to bring the museum into the urgent present.
    By Justin Davidson
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    What Will It Take for Architects to Stop Working With Autocrats?Designers have long relied on a catalogue of excuses to work with questionable clients. But it doesn’t have to be this way.
    By Justin Davidson
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    Pritzker Winner Francis Keré’s Small Buildings Have Things to Teach Big CitiesA lesson from the Pritzker-winning architect: Don’t overlook local materials, no matter how low-tech.
    By Justin Davidson
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    Can Better Design Redeem the Cruise Ship?Our architecture critic goes to sea.
    By Justin Davidson
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    The Start-up Aesthetic Defines New York’s Two New Ivy CampusesThey say they want to engage the community, but that outreach is self-limiting.
    By Justin Davidson
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    The Concrete Innovators of Delhi and DhakaA MoMA show devoted to the inventive post-partition architecture of South Asia.
    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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    Most Green Buildings Aren’t Even Close to Being Carbon-Neutral — YetWith a few exceptions, their claims — at least so far — are built on fuzzy math and borrowing against the future.
    By Justin Davidson
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    Hochul’s Penn Station Plan Is the Worst Kind of Urban RenewalDid we learn nothing from tearing the guts out of city after city in the 1960s?
    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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    A Rare Feat: A Tower by a Major Architect That Doesn’t Fight With Its NeighborsAt the corner where J&R Music and Computer World once stood, the condo building by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners is confident but not loud.
    By Justin Davidson
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    Is This Really the Best 79th Street Dock House We Can Get?Renderings show a boxy institutional structure that could be almost anywhere. Surely we can do better.
    By Justin Davidson
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    Concrete Doesn’t Have to Be an Ecological NightmareNew technologies may drastically reduce its huge carbon footprint.
    By Justin Davidson
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    Why Do New Buildings Look So Basic?We can embrace ornamentation in architecture without returning to the past.
    By Justin Davidson
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    A New Arts Compound in East Williamsburg That Draws You InThe Amant arts center faces the city with severity but aims to cosset visitors.
    By Justin Davidson
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    To Stop Flooding, New York Needs Spongy StreetsThe city does the equivalent of mopping up an overflowing toilet with a rock. We have alternatives, and should use them.
    By Justin Davidson
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    MoMA’s ‘Automania’: Car Culture, Minus the CultureA show that doesn’t get much past the chrome and glossy paint.
    By Justin Davidson
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