A weekly dispatch on architecture, design, and cities, from Christopher Hawthorne
“How Modern,” at Montreal’s CCA, turns conventional wisdom on its head; plus: remembering Bob Stern
And what Peter Eisenman, his former mentor, thinks of his ballroom plan
Fifteen years and more than $800m in the making, the Swiss architect’s “concrete sculpture” is finally ready to meet a dubious public
It might be worth a try! Plus: more gripes about “Sotheby’s at the Breuer,” the Louvre reconsiders its renovation, and Record’s EIC is big mad
The gluttonies of “Sotheby’s at the Breuer”
How much of an electoral price did the GOP pay this week for Trump’s White House demolition spree? Plus: Mark Lamster on the threat to I.M. Pei’s Dallas City Hall
Inside the brawny new JPMorgan Chase supertall, at 270 Park Avenue
We’re joined by Geoff Manaugh, author of “A Burglar’s Guide to the City”; plus, sorting through the rubble at Trump’s White House
A conversation with Ma Yansong
Or did it? The manipulations, architectural and otherwise, of Luca Guadagnino’s “After the Hunt”
A review of the new Princeton University Art Museum, by Adjaye Associates and Cooper Robertson
Remembering Kongjian Yu
A conversation with Aaron Cayer about how AECOM rose from humble SoCal roots to become a powerful, secretive player in global politics
Why not-so-bad feels, in this case, like a minor miracle; plus a ranking of WTC architecture from best to worst
