Practice: Details

“Kindergartens and nurseries are for kids, not for adults.”

“The completion of the World Trade Center will finally restore the majestic skyline of Manhattan …” As a blockbuster collaboration between a massive, multinational news corporation and the building’s new architect — Bjarke Ingels, arguably the master storyteller of his profession — it should come as no surprise that the video for this week’s big…

By James Biber, architect of the USA Pavilion at EXPO 2015. Expos, since their inception in the Vict orian London of 1851, have managed to rely on architecture as the leitmotif of modernity. Paxton’s Crystal Palace was the first truly modern building: fully demountable, entirely prefabricated of iron and glass, commissioned by competition, and realized from…

​The interesting thing about Danish architecture studio Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter is that, looking at their diverse projects, many of which involve renovation of heritage buildings, a design philosophy emerges not through a stylistic idiosyncrasy, but a consistent and relentless sensitivity to context.

Beyond the rioting gear, police, looting, and violence, the images of the recent demonstrations in B altimore depict a city crippled by derelict infrastructure. As in many aging American cities, many parts in Baltimore are characterized by urban blight, abandonment, and crumbling buildings — specifically the neighborhoods inhabited by low-income and minority communities. In a recent…

It’s pretty exhausting being a British voter right now: This year’s election campaign has been one o f the most mind-boggling in recent memory — no fewer than seven party leaders took part in April’s televised debate, leaving more questions than answers about the benefits and drawbacks of each manifesto. Public opinion is split, the race…

Salone 2015 was, in a word, disappointing. As an ever-expanding media frenzy, the largest annual int ernational design fair has lost sight of the essentials and diluted the meaning of good design. Even the work shown in the Ventura Lambrate area, where design schools like Eindhoven present student work that hints at the future of design,…

Approaching from Gansevoort Street, one can’t help but anticipate the views from the stepped t erraces of the new Whitney Museum of American Art as its glazed-ziggurat aspect becomes a legible homage to the museum’s previous home, 3.3 miles to the northeast (as the crow flies), but a world away otherwise. If the iconic Breuer façade…

New York City continues to be one of the most coveted places in the world to develop, build, and buy property, yet the region is more and more strained every day. Infrastructure, housing, and employment continue to be of the utmost concern to city and state governments as they work to meet the demands of…