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CULTURE CLUB
The World Monuments Fund Celebrates Its 34th Annual Hadrian Gala

On Oct. 25, a group of philanthropists representing the art, architecture, and fashion milieu...

ARCHITECTURE
In Albania, a Monument to Tyranny Begins Anew

MVRDV has finished transforming the Pyramid of Tirana—a maligned symbol of Albanian oppression...

ART
This Museum of Stolen Artifacts Aims to Empty Itself

UNESCO and Interpol are developing an immersive virtual museum tracking hundreds of stolen cultural

Partnership
Surface and Dorsia Merge Cultures, Work Needs With ROOM Booths

Nailing hybrid workplace design is one thing, but achieving it for two companies sharing an office...

ARCHITECTURE
The Vivid, Vanishing Backdrops of Ilana Harris-Babou’s Youth

At Storefront for Art and Architecture, the interdisciplinary artist recreates the disappearing...

URBAN PLANNING
Manhattan Gets a Beach—and an Art History Lesson

With the opening of Gansevoort Peninsula this month, Manhattan has welcomed its first public...

ARCHITECTURE
The Evolving Potential of Columbus’s Modernist Buildings

Exhibit Columbus, a citywide festival launched by the Landmark Columbus Foundation, seeks to build...

DESIGN DISPATCH
The Met’s New Children’s Studio Is a Sprawling Play Space, and Other News 

Our daily look at the world through the lens of design.

ARCHITECTURE
From Upstate New York, Magazzino Charts a Future for Italian Art

The museum and research center entered its next chapter with the unveiling of the Robert Olnick...

ARCHITECTURE
The Domino Sugar Refinery Enters a New Era

The historic Brooklyn factory has wrapped up a $2.5 billion renovation, a tricky undertaking that...

ARCHITECTURE
New York City Welcomes a Performing Arts Center at Ground Zero

At the $500 million Perelman Performing Arts Center, the minds behind it sketch a hopeful future...

ARCHITECTURE
Is Hay the Future of Sustainable Homes? 

A year after giving his brand Patagonia back to the earth, eccentric billionaire Yvon Chouinard is...

ARCHITECTURE
Rehabbing This Bay Area Factory Required “Architectural Levitation”

Work recently wrapped on retrofitting one of San Francisco’s oldest shipbuilding warehouses into...

ARCHITECTURE
A Galloping Workshop Where Hermès Saddles Come to Life

On a verdant site near Normandy, the French label tasked Lina Ghotmeh to channel her “archaeology

ARCHITECTURE
The Perilous Pitfalls of Rooftopping

The thrill-seeking practice of scaling skyscrapers and riskily documenting yourself dangling off...