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The drive for postpandemic perks to attract buyers and renters challenges architects to create buzzy shared spaces. How’s it going?

JG Neukomm Architecture designed The Suffolk’s resident lounge for active day and night use. It has a loungy side, pictured above, and a more upright side with two library tables. (William Laird) ...
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Why does American multifamily architecture look so banal? Here’s one reason

In a recent article in The New York Times, Anna Kodé lamented the blandness of multifamily architecture in the U.S. and posited several theories for this disappointment. The root cause of the banality ...
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A detailed look at New York’s community of independent and in-house model makers

A display wall at Radii in Hoboken, New Jersey, shows the range of models built by the shop since it opened in 2000. (Christopher Payne/Esto) Amid all of the ways to make an architectural model ...
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With SoMA at 25 Water Street, CetraRuddy delivers the country’s largest office-to-residential conversion

In 2022, the property was sold to GFP Real Estate and MetroLoft with Rockwood Capital for $251 million. These new owners commissioned CetraRuddy, led by work and life partners John Cetra and Nancy J.
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Memphis Art Museum shares updated renderings and construction photography of new flagship building by Herzog & de Meuron

A new flagship building for the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Tennessee’s “largest and oldest” art institution, designed by Herzog & de Meuron, archimania, and OLIN is starting to take shape on the ...
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Bahrain’s Pearling Path offers a two-decade retrospective on history, identity, and architectural narrative

What makes the Pearling Path most exciting is its use of existing city fabric and strategic piecemeal development. (Iwan Baan) An aerial view of the historic area of Muharraq, with contemporary ...
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Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum to reopen eight renovated galleries, as part of major museum overhaul

America by Air at the newly renovated Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. (Courtesy Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum) Wright Brothers & the Invention of the Aerial Age (Courtesy ...
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Renovation of Federal Reserve Board headquarters portends a battle over civic architecture

The $42-million FRB refresh had been on the CFA docket on November 21, 2019, with commissioners largely approving of the three preliminary renovation and expansion proposals set before them and ...
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Rockwell Group designs New York’s Din Tai Fung like a unique stage set

For the largest outpost of the acclaimed Taiwanese restaurant Din Tai Fung, Rockwell Group differentiated the new New York eatery in dramatic fashion. The interior is aptly informed by the ...
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In Williamsburg, a new office building rises from within the Domino Sugar refinery

“This is the jewel in the crown,” said Vishaan Chakrabarti of Practice for Architecture and Urbanism (PAU). He was talking about the office’s reimagination of the Refinery at Domino, which just ...
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Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu unveils regional plan to build a “massive free trade zone” with rail service to NEOM

AI-generated renderings show skyscrapers, solar fields, water desalination plants, a new high speed rail corridor, and oil rigs off of Gaza’s shoreline. (Courtesy Israel PMO) UN officials issued a ...