Architecture

Mark Lamster|Essays

Underground Architects

The one question people often ask that I don't enjoy answering is, "Who's your favorite architect?"

Alexandra Lange|Essays

White Columns

In Valentino: The Last Emperor, one dress is followed in all of its incarnations, while architecture is put in its place.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Higher and Higher

In his back-page New York Times Book Review essay on The Complete Stories of J.G. Ballard, Jonathan Lethem makes many good points about Ballard’s visionary writing, “desolate landscapes” and his linkages with other …

John Cantwell|Essays

The Big Screen in Big D

The brand new $1.2 billion home of the Dallas cowboys has a design feature that promises to turn football games there into a weird mashup of football and pinball.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Won't Get Fooled Again

News of the redevelopment of the Atlantic Yards keeps getting worse.

Mark Lamster|Essays

Fire at Rubens's St. Charles Borromeo

An electrical fire has done severe damage to the interior of Antwerp's St. Charles Borromeo.

Mark Lamster|Essays

The Om in Home: Kripalu's New Dorm

I'm not a big yoga fan, and always looked at the Kripalu Yoga Center, in Lenox, with a fair degree of skepticism.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Shiny and New

On this week's Mad Men, three words I never thought I would hear on a dramatic television show: Ada Louise Huxtable.

Richard Ross|Gallery

No Place Like Home

Image from photographer Richard Ross's latest project, "Suitable Placement: Juvenile Justice in America"

Mark Lamster|Essays

Barrington Fair

There's something romantic, eerie, and pathetic all at once about any work of abandoned architecture.

Mark Lamster|Essays

Too Much Stuff

In one of his classic routines, George Carlin wondered that there could be a "whole industry based on keeping an eye on your stuff."

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Arks of Knowledge

My review of Yale University's Kroon Hall was especially fun to write.