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THE SKY LINE & OTHER ARTICLES

FROM NEWYORKER.COM

Rem Koolhaas at the Festival of Ideas for the New City

May 11, 2011

"Taxi of Tomorrow": It's a Nissan

May 3, 2011

Ten Architectural Events in New York in 2010 that will matter in the years beyond

December 27, 2010

Paul Rudolph's Manhattan Megastructure

November 8, 2010

Architects on Stage

June 14, 2010

The Supreme Court Steps: An Architectural Dissent

May 5, 2010

Snow Cathedral

February 26, 2010

Faulty Tower

February 26, 2010

The Ten Most Positive Architectural Events of 2009

December 8, 2009

Frank Gehry's Replacement

September 16, 2009

Broken Promises at Ground Zero

September 11, 2009

Postscript: Charles Gwathmey

August 5, 2009

Prince Charles's Long War on Modern Architecture

April 30, 2009

Peter Zuthmor's Quiet Power

April 14, 2009

Burning Koolhaas Down

February 10, 2009

TALK OF THE TOWN

Shelter Deparment: Apple Polishing

May 17, 2010

Face-Lift Department: She does windows

January 25, 2010

Monuments Dept.: Test Drive

October 12, 2009

Cathedrals: The Park That Ruth Built

August 10, 2009

Face Lift: The Falls

August 3, 2009

Old and New: Gehry at Eighty

March 16, 2009

Father and Son: Swing Science

December 1, 2008

Moving Up: You Say Tomato

August 25, 2008

On the Block: House Hunt

May 26, 2008

Dept. of Building: Compound on Park

May 19, 2007

Dept. of Buildings: Blowup

May 14, 2007

The Boards: Sex and Real Estate

April 30, 2007

Dept. of Preservation: Still Modern

December 4, 2006

Critic's Notebook: The Big Build

October 17, 2005

Postscript: Shape-Shifter

February 7, 2005

Still Standing: Stone's Glass House

November 18, 2002

Dept. of Commemoration: Less or More

November 11, 2002

Comment: Up From Zero

July 29, 2002

At the Museums: The View from the Seven

July 1, 2002

Horizon Dept.: Lights Out

April 15, 2002

Dept. of Delay: A Gehry for Los Angeles

March 11, 2002

One Size Fits All Dept.: A Morgan Stanley Sunrise, a Lehman Brothers Moon

January 28, 2002

The Wrecking Ball: The Little Pavilion That Could

January 21, 2002

Building Dept.: Spiffing up the Gray Lady

January 7, 2002

Dept. of Second Chances: A Park Avenue Makeover

December 10, 2001

At the Museums: A Face-Lift on Fifth

December 3, 2001

Showcase by Robert Polidori: Gambling on Art

October 15, 2001

From the Ashes: A Synagogue Rises Again

September 10, 2001

Showcase by Robert Polidori: Das Big Haus

August 13, 2001

Showcase by Robert Polidori: Gateway to Gotham

May 28, 2001

Comebacks the Architect of Swanky Populism

December 4, 2000

Recycling Department: A Shrine to Alexander's

November 13, 2000

Books: Building Huggers

September 25, 2000

Comment Not In Our Front Yard

August 7, 2000

Dept. of Recreation: Surf's Up at P.S. 1

July 10, 2000

It Takes A Village

March 27, 2000

In The Neighborhood

February 14, 2000

Detroit Postcard

January 24, 2000

On the Waterfront

December 13, 1999

Extra! Extra! Newshounds Exit!

November 29, 1999

Face-Lift Dept.

November 8, 1999

Showcase: Postmodern Pillar

October 4, 1999

Master Builders

August 16, 1999

Annals of Design: Detroit Tiger

July 12, 1999

Good Neighbors Dept.

June 14, 1999

A Second Chance for Penn Station

June 7, 1999

Right Time, Right Place

May 24, 1999

Good Neighbors Dept.

March 8, 1999

Accidental Piazza

February 15, 1999

In the Aisles

February 1, 1999

Dept. of Appearances

November 30, 1998

Books: A Helluva Town

November 30, 1998

Is the City Losing City Hall?

November 9, 1998

Showcase: Room to Think

October 5, 1998

Malling Manhattan

August 10, 1998

A Royal Defeat

July 13, 1998

Land of Make-Believe

June 22, 1998

At the Museums

June 15, 1998

The Boards

April 27, 1998

Master Builder

April 27, 1998

Bug Love

April 20, 1998

Annals of Preservation: Bringing Back Havana

January 26, 1998

Postscript: Citizen Gill

January 12, 1998

The Sporting Life

December 1, 1997

A Room With A View

October 20, 1997

Social Notes

October 13, 1997

Slings and Arrows

February 9, 2004

The architectural machinations at Ground Zero can be treacherous

Memories

December 8, 2003

The Incredible Hulk

November 17, 2003

A behemoth rises up in Columbus Circle

Good Vibrations

September 29, 2003

Frank Gehry's Disney Hall is a musical pleasure palace

Urban Warriors

September 15, 2003

Daniel and Nina Libeskind thought they had figured out how to get a building built. Then they came to New York

West Side Fixer-Upper

July 7, 2003

New ideas for Lincoln Center that don’t involve dynamite.

Artistic License

June 2, 2003

Two great new cultural centers open out of town

Eyes on the Prize

March 10, 2003

The amazing design competition for the World Trade Center site

Designing Downtown

January 6, 2003

How will so many people with so many different ideas agree on the new proposals for the World Trade Center site?

A Delicate Balance

December 23, 2002

Tadao Ando, a refined craftsman, builds big in Texas

Miami Vice

October 7, 2002

Is this the ugliest building in New York?

Sanctum on the Coast

September 23, 2002

Rafael Moneo's new cathedral in L.A. looms large

Groundwork

May 20, 2002

How the future of Ground Zero is being resolved

High-Tech Emporiums

March 25, 2002

Prada and Toys R Us have much in common

Reqiuem

January 14, 2002

Memorializing terrorism's victims in Oklahoma

Requiem

January 14, 2002

Memorializing terrorism's victims in Oklahoma.

Many Mansions

November 12, 2001

On the centenary of Louis Kahn's birth, a look at his legacy and his secret life

Art Houses

November 5, 2001

New museums in Milwaukee and St. Louis

Building Plans

September 24, 2001

What the World Trade Center meant

Site Specific

August 2, 2001

Two new shows in L.A. explore the legacy of early-modern architects

House Proud

July 2, 2001

Mies van der Rohe and Robert Venturi at three museums

Digital Dreams

March 12, 2001

What if Howard Roark had used a Mac?

The Supreme Court

January 8, 2001

Norman Foster's courtyard addition to the British Museum...

Dreamhouse

October 30, 2000

Suburban Grandeur

October 9, 2000

Richard Meier's new United States Courthouse and Federal Building in Central Islip, Long Island.

Busy Buildings

September 4, 2000

New buildings in the Times Square area and the new 42nd St. Studios building.

Beaubourg Grows Up

May 22, 2000

A look back at the Centre Pompidou

A Place to Play

February 14, 2000

An urban football stadium in midtown Manhattan.

Dior's New House

January 31, 2000

Christian de Portzamparc's L.V.M.H. small skyscraper on 57th St.

Stairway to the Stars

January 17, 2000

The new Rose Center for Earth and Space at the American Museum of Natural History.

A Touch of Crass

August 16, 1999

Retro-style New York apartment buildings

The Eames Team

May 24, 1999

Far Out

March 8, 1999

Revisiting Brasilia, the futuristic capital of Brazil.

Zone Defense

February 22, 1999

Early New York developer Louis Horowitz and his book, "The Towers of New York."

Why Washington Slept Here

February 15, 1999

The design of Mt. Vernon

Now Arriving

September 28, 1998

Grand Central Terminal

Casino Royale

September 14, 1998

Latest crop of massive casinos in Las Vegas

The Big Top

April 27, 1998

London's new Millennium Dome

The People's Getty

February 23, 1998

The new Getty Center in LA

The Modern Made New

December 8, 1997

Museum of Modern Art's new expansion

The Politics of Building

October 13, 1997

Gehry's Guggenheim Bilbao

Landmark Kitsch

August 18, 1997

The question of landmark designation for modern buildings of debatable aesthetic value...

Design for Living: Modernist Vacation Homes With A Mission

April 11, 2011

Living Architecture, which immodestly calls itself “a new social enterprise set up to revolutionize both architecture and UK holiday rentals,” has commissioned five modern vacation homes with the apparent intention of putting the Masterpiece Theatre version of England to rest once and for all.

Gracious Living

March 7, 2011

A review of Frank Gehry’s new tower at 8 Spruce Street. From the east you see it against the Woolworth Building, the most lyrical skyscraper in New York. Gehry’s building isn’t its equal, but it’s the first thing built downtown since then that actually deserves to stand beside it.

Neighborhood Watch

December 20, 2010

Eric Owen Moss transforms an entire neighborhood of Culver City with the kind of avant-garde architecture that is usually scattered around the world

What Happens in Vegas

October 4, 2010

The CityCenter development, on the Las Vegas Strip, attempts to provide an alternative to the city’s garish architectural pastiches.

Wheelhouse

August 9, 2010

Swiss architects Herzog and de Meuron rethink the parking deck in Miami.

Shadow Building

May 17, 2010

On the new skyscraper headquarters Goldman Sachs built for itself in lower Manhattan.

Castle in the Sky

February 8, 2010

Dubai reaches for the sky

The Wave Effect

February 1, 2010

Jeanne Gang and architecture’s anti-divas.

Surface Tension

November 23, 2009

Jean Nouvel and the art of the façade.

Spiraling Upward

May 25, 2009

About the Frank Lloyd Wright retrospective at the Guggenheim

All He Surveyed

March 30, 2009

About the architect Andrea Palladio

Home

March 23, 2009

The new stadiums for the Yankees and the Mets

Toddlin' Town

March 19, 2009

The centennial of Daniel Burnham’s Plan for Chicago

Center Stage

February 2, 2009

The new Alice Tully Hall and the Lincoln Center renovations

Hello, Columbus

August 25, 2008

Brad Cloepfil’s redesign of 2 Columbus Circle

Forbidden Cities

June 30, 2008

Beijing's new architecture

Out of the Blocks

June 2, 2008

Beijing’s Olympic architecture is spectacular, but what message does it send?

The Heatherwick Effect

May 12, 2008

About British designer Thomas Heatherwick

Situation Terminal

April 21, 2008

Airport design and the new terminals in Beijing and Madrid

Bowery Dreams

November 19, 2007

A new home for the New Museum of Contemporary Art

The Colorist

October 22, 2007

The playful world of Will Alsop

Past Perfect

August 27, 2007

Retro opulence on Central Park West

Tower of Babel

August 6, 2007

What should a newsroom look like in the twenty-first century?

Lenses on the Lawn

April 30, 2007

Steven Holl rethinks the museum-extension genre

Salvage Artists

March 19, 2007

A new home from old roads

Eminent Dominion

February 5, 2007

Rethinking the legacy of Robert Moses

Gehry-Rigged

October 16, 2006

Two New York projects show how to use Frank Gehry and how not to

Zero Summary

September 11, 2006

Mile-High

August 28, 2006

After the World Trade Center furor, Daniel Libeskind moves on

Unconventional

July 31, 2006

Massimiliano Fuksas reinvents the convention center

Molto Piano

May 29, 2006

Three new designs demonstrate Renzo Piano's brilliance and his limitations

Mysterious Skin

March 20, 2006

Herzog and de Meuron's otherworldly stadium in Munich

When In Rome

February 27, 2006

A striking redesign of Getty's Malibu villa

Shanghai Surprise

December 26, 2005

The radical quaintness of the Xintiandi district

Triangulation

December 19, 2005

Norman Foster's thrilling addition to midtown Manhattan

The Sculptor

October 31, 2005

Santiago Calatrava redefines the apartment tower

Some Assembly Required

October 17, 2005

A modern way to make a modern home

A New Beginning

May 30, 2005

Why we should build apartments at Ground Zero

Green Monster

May 2, 2005

A startling addition to Astor Place

Outside the Box

November 15, 2004

Yoshio Taniguchi's elegant expansion of the Modern

Homes of the Stars

September 13, 2004

A high-profile suburb for the Hamptons

Shanghai on the Hudson

August 2, 2004

Jersey City wants to be like Lower Manhattan, only neat and clean

Down at the Mall

May 31, 2004

The new World War II memorial doesn't rise to the occasion

High-Tech Bibliophilia

May 24, 2004

Rem Koolhaas's new library in Seattle is an ennobling public space

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