Tag: Architecture
Big Ben Bongs Will Soon Ring Out Again Across London
LONDON — For five years, the most famous clock tower in Britain was hidden behind an ugly fortress…
Redesign Around Notre-Dame to Keep Tourists Moving and Lower Temperatures
PARIS — An overhaul of the area around Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris will open it up toward the…
At the U.S. Open, Saving the House That Built Golf
BROOKLINE, Mass. — The small, 19th-century home with the golf course view is hardly noticeable to the hundreds…
New York ‘Architect’ Says He Never Saw Plans for 642 Feet Tall Building
Amid the glittering geometric towers that dot the Manhattan skyline, the hotel on 11th Avenue in Hudson Yards…
Things to Do in Paris
The future is looking bright for the award-winning chef Thibault Sombardier.Last year, under financial pressure from successive coronavirus…
Museum of Natural History’s New Science Center Takes Shape
In 2014, when the American Museum of Natural History first announced plans for a major expansion devoted to…
Lauren Halsey Chosen for Met Roof Installation
Lauren Halsey, 34, an artist from South Central Los Angeles who often makes site-specific installations and also founded…
Met Museum Names a Mexico City Architect to Lead a New Major Project
The Mexican architect Frida Escobedo, who at 38 was the youngest architect to design the Serpentine Pavilion in…
Tomás Saraceno: Following the Airborne Lives of Spiders
The Shed has gone all out for the multitasking Tomás Saraceno — a visionary Argentine artist and environmentalist…
When Architects Made Worlds
Rahul Mehrotra, the architect and Harvard professor, writes in the catalog about the challenge of housing. Faced with…
Why Does the Demolition of a Marcel Breuer House Matter?
LAWRENCE, N.Y. — “Are people going to care about one little house?” asked Elizabeth Waytkus, who had been…
Despite the Dire Housing Picture, the South Bronx Sees a Way Forward.
Good news is hard to come by on the housing front. The eviction moratorium has expired. Experts now…