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Renovation Project
Owen Hatherley celebrates the urban residential complexes denigrated in North America as “the projects”
Owen Hatherley celebrates the urban residential complexes denigrated in North America as “the projects”
The Toronto architect discusses the imperative of flexibility, fostering community, and responding thoughtfully to existing contexts
Will the Olympics die out before host cities learn how to harness them to achieve good things?
An argument for preserving the intimacy, resilience, and dynamism created in postwar Tokyo—and exporting it across the world
On the definition of photography, sensing rather than seeing landscapes, and museums as drivers of sustainability and community
On learning to think about exhibitions, not just art
On sufficiency and upfront carbon, through Lloyd Alter’s new book
In Egypt, President Sisi speed-runs nearly two centuries of urban-planning ideas in service of his political agenda
Igor Bragado and Miles Gertler rethink architecture’s relationship to the inevitable
Annotated links to twelve stories, buildings, videos, or projects that deserve your attention
On the “narrative struggle” that monuments and markers represent
The New Orleans artist on extractive economies, resilience, and the emotional power of art
The Built Environment
Organizer and writer Matt Hern reports from the new suburbs
Technology
On the web’s needless complexity and translating signals from one medium to another
The Built Environment
On creative autonomy, acknowledging labor and laborers, and building relationships that will last decades.
The Built Environment
On touring an Amazon warehouse and reading Heike Geissler’s “Seasonal Associate”
The Built Environment
A new anthology with predictions of London a century from now misses the voices of today’s residents.
The Built Environment
Two stories about helping the next generation
Technology
The AI researcher on identity, sexuality, language, and paying close attention to the data
Technology
Email isn’t going anywhere. That’s a good thing.
The Built Environment
Long-term planning gives architects an opportunity to rethink ownership models
The Built Environment
Updates on the MSG Sphere, Wikipedia, and other recent Frontier Magazine stories
Technology
Our sense of time is ever-changing. Shouldn’t our calendars be, too?
On representations of the continent—who gets to make them, how they circulate, and what they mean