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A hilltop home fronted with wood from the Acorn Deck House Company
Perched Prefab

Ideate Design Studio and Acorn Deck Housing Company craft an embedded home on the outskirts of Boston

North Elevation Looking Over Vine Street Expressway
Philly Facades

XS House marries fiber cement and corrugated metal with a stacked facade

Winter Visual Arts Building at Dusk
The Holl Package

Steven Holl Architects’s scalloped Winter Visual Arts Building showcases the first-ever two layer, u-plank facade

side view of a new library in brooklyn
Putting the Green in You-Know-What

Greenpoint Library and Environmental Education Center opens in Brooklyn

illustration of a reimagined tidal basin
The Moment is Now

An online exhibition explores how the National Mall Tidal Basin can be shielded from climate change

Rendering of people in the rubin museum looking at the moon
Mind Yourself

Peterson Rich Office will install a social learning lab in NYC’s Rubin Museum

Rendering of the new graffiti pier with a wedding couple on it
Site Sensitive

Thanks to a design coalition with community ties, Philadelphia’s Graffiti Pier will live on as a public park

Looking up at a terra cotta-clad tower in Manhattan, where architect Erica Tishman was killed
Come Again?

New York City argues that architect killed by falling building debris could be responsible for her own death

Rendering of gensler's new central amtrak station for baltimore
All Aboard

Gensler reveals Baltimore’s new central train station

Image of installers repairing the Empire State Building
Extreme Construction

Restoration of the Empire State Building’s Art Deco crown nears completion

Inside the Shofuso and Modernism exhibition
Mid 17th Century, That Is

Shofuso and Modernism revisits a major mid-century East-West cultural exchange

Hopper hall, on the edge of a river
Hop To It

SOM completes a hardened cyber security center for the United States Naval Academy

People jogging by the sculptural concrete pots of little island
Natural’s Sorta In It

Heatherwick Studio and MNLA bridge structure and botany at Little Island

A black home with metal roof that curves downward
Not Suspicious At All

Aston Martin teams with S3 Architecture for its first “secret lair” home

The tombs, a towering jail with no windows, against a blue sky
The Tomb Where It Happened

Manhattan’s notorious “Tombs” will close next month as part of Rikers realignment

street dining in nyc in Jackson heights, which was covered under the neighborhoods now initiative
Valuable Tools

Van Alen Institute and Urban Design Forum launch online design toolkit for COVID-19 recovery efforts

modules on a beach, an example of prefabrication in an urban context
Encouraging the Unconventional

NYC Public Design Commission explores small-scale prefabrication potential in a big-city context

5 pointz, a graffiti covered warehouse, undergoing demoltion
All's Well That Ends Well

US Supreme Court cements win for graffiti artists in 5 Pointz demolition case

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