One of the welfare state's favorite areas of intervention is housing construction and assistance for people on lower incomes. This is the subject of Howard A. Husock's book “The Projects: A New Histor...
10.30.2026 Townhall.com
Pictured: Liz Nielsen’s “Crystalline Resonance” illuminates the windows of Gridley Chapel at the Wassaic Project. Credit: Jeff Barrett-Winsby For the next few years, visitors to the much-loved Wassaic...
10.28.2026 Chronogram.com and 1 sitesHow should we live? What is space? How minimal can a building or room be? These are some of the questions architectural designer John Pawson brings up in his book The Minimal Home, and which come up i...
10.27.2026 Highsnobiety.com
“This is a man who is almost perfectly visual, ” remarked writer and painter Etel Adnan of Robert Wilson, the influential artist and theatermaker renowned for his innovative designs and storytelling. ...
10.28.2026 Freeyork.org
'This is a man who is almost perfectly visual, ' said the writer and painter Etel Adnan of her friend Robert Wilson. The world-renowned artist and theatremaker, who died last year at the age of 83, was a designer at heart. He thought by drawing, painted with light, and sculpted time and space with silence. Yet Wilson was also a Texas-born teller of tales. He overcame a childhood stutter to hone a speaking voice that shared the captivating, expansive, and finely calibrated character of his work f...
10.28.2026 Wallpaper.com
Asher Luzzatto plans to turn the former First National Bank Center into the High Fidelity residential complex. This is part of 50 for 50, Editor Emeritus Patricia Calhoun’s series of 50 columns celebr...
10.28.2026 Westword.com
Simon Kim, founder of Cote Korean Steakhouse, opened 550 Madison, a 15, 000-square-foot dining destination in Midtown, this April. Gary He In April, Simon Kim opened 550 Madison, a 15, 000-square-foot...
10.27.2026 Observer.com
Soundproofing and acoustic treatment solve two different problems. Soundproofing keeps sound from passing between rooms through mass, airtight construction and layers held apart, and acoustic treatmen...
10.29.2026 Architecturelab.net
The Glass House has always served as a nexus of creativity and artistic vision. Architect Philip Johnson designed the Modernist house, which was built in 1949, and additional structures on his expansi...
10.30.2026 Savingplaces.org
