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Calatrava Trauma: Bird Man Gets His Wings Clipped in Manhattan The Calatrava Aviary catches recessionary bird flu: demise of the $30-million condos; cost trims at Ground Zero PATH terminal....
BlogBack: Arts Writer Brett Campbell Defends Brad Cloepfil An architect constrained by his assignment---a re-clad, rather than a re-do....
Nouvel News: MoMA Monster Gets Drubbed (and defended) While I sipped sake in Osaka, the French architect was getting a taste of New York-fermented vitriol....
By The Cross...Or The Sword A statue at Mission Dolores church in San Francisco hints at the contradiction at the heart of colonialism...
MAD's Striptease: Cloepfil Shows New York What He's Got Gauzy black protective veils are gradually dropping away, revealing that reworking existing structures is a waste of time and money....
Rating the New Museums: The Best (and Worst) of 2007---Part II Forget the Razzies. Here are the Marties....
Rating the New Museums: The Best (and Worst) of 2007---Part I Forget the Pritzkers. Here are the Fillers (no $100,000 award, however)....
Nouvel Riches: Pritzer Gold, Tower of Glass A commendable Pritzker choice---neither too soon nor or too late. But oh, that towering stalagmite on 53rd Street!...
Lauder to the Whitney: There's No Place Like Home His enforced moratorium on selling the Breuer building could be one of his most valuable gifts to the museum....
Sejima and Nishizawa at the New Museum The SANAA exhibition suits the firm's delicate aesthetic, with the added advantage of appearing in one of their best buildings....
Ouroussoff on Atlantic Yards and Hudson Yards: The Gray Lady's Guide to Contemporary Civics Bruce Ratner, developer for the Gehry-designed Atlantic Yards project, was also the NY Times' developer. Can Ouroussoff be impartial?...
The New Art of Health Care How a new hospital in Charleston, S.C., signals the rise of art in addressing problems in 21st-century design...
Nouvel Wins the Pritzker Prize (and Media Embargo Broken Again) Some 42 designs are "in progress," including the MoMA Monster. NY Times Magazine rushes Nouvel profile online a week early....
John Lautner: New Book on the Far-Out Architect Known for celebrity clients and spaceship-like residences in dramatic settings, this bombastic curiosity scores a Hammer exhibition and catalogue....
Bluemner Back in Bloom in the Bronx Restoration and repurposing of a suave Beaux-Arts courthouse, designed by a forgotten architect better known as an artist....
Selldorf's Co-ops: Leaning Tower of Chelsea? It was bound to happen eventually---the first serious construction dispute surrounding a celebrity architect-designed apartment building in NYC....
Dubious in Dubai: Rem the Radical Sheikh Should architecture critics lavish extended praise on designs fresh off the drawing board and likely to change, if not disappear?...
The Case of the Disappearing Museum Director It's not just directors, but also architecture curators who experience burnout from being in-house point men for expansion projects...
Parrish Fashions: Inside the Herzog & de Meuron Selection Process First, get a shortlist of recommendations from the search committee. Then, disregard it and engage the Swiss starchitects....
Old and New New Urbanism in Atlanta and Memphis Is the model too narrow to become a vernacular?...
The Monkees: Pomo Arrivistes......
Spring 2008 Conferences on Public Art and Design Why are the gatherings in the southeast, northeast and southern california?...
Surprise and Design in Public Works Time to replace "well-designed" as an the objective for public art...
More on Tom Krens from James Russell (and me) UPDATED It takes an architecture critic to appreciate the best of Krens---great (though often unrealized) architecture-and-design undertakings....
Bringing a new eye to facility design The emerging design challenges of commercial retail are directly relevant to our cultural spaces, as well....