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  1. encounter
    Eva Alt, Day in a Life
    Eva Alt Is Selling DowntownThe dancer turned broker has managed the impossible: making it cool to be a real-estate agent.
    By Bridget Read
  2. street view
    JAPAN-ARCHITECTURE-CULTURE-LIFESTYLE-TOILETS
    Tokyo’s Public Toilets Will Leave New Yorkers SobbingWith civic envy and political fury.
    By Justin Davidson
  3. on set
    Curb Your Enthusiasm - 2000
    Good-bye to the Enduringly Beige Interiors of Curb Your EnthusiasmThrough 12 seasons, Larry stuck with what he liked: wrought iron, stone, an overstuffed couch.
    By Gracie Hadland
  4. street view
    Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky Was More Than Her Hyperorganized KitchenA new show devoted to the Austrian architect reveals her idealism and ambition.
    By Justin Davidson
  5. street view
    The Googleplex Is GrowingGoogle’s new St. John’s Terminal headquarters, meant to lure workers back to the office, is a city within a building.
    By Justin Davidson
  6. street view
    The Showman Becomes the RealistBjarke Ingels and the limitations of building in New York.
    By Justin Davidson
  7. preservation watch
    How the Nivola Horses Got Their Hooves BackAll 18 modernist sculptures have been reinstalled in an Upper West Side plaza.
    By Clio Chang
  8. street view
    Our Radical, Practical NYCHA MakeoverFor Curbed, Peterson Rich’s architects propose balconies, energy efficiency, and adding mixed-income low-rises.
    By Justin Davidson
  9. street view
    The New Jersey Hindu Temple Covered With 10,000 SculpturesMarble elephants, ample parking, and a federal investigation into how it all got built.
    By Justin Davidson
  10. street view
    Thomas Heatherwick Thinks Nearly All New Buildings Are BoringA critique of his critique.
    By Justin Davidson
  11. architecture
    What Was Trump Tower?His co-star, his political launch pad, his longest-term companion.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  12. street view
    Louis Armstrong’s Wonderful World Was in QueensA museum to a cultural legend emphasizes his unpretentious life at home.
    By Justin Davidson
  13. street view
    Need Housing? Need a Rail Line? Stack Them Up.Studio V’s proposal for a Borough Park rail cut.
    By Justin Davidson
  14. architecture
    Inside the City’s Gleaming New Performance CubeThe Perelman Performing Arts Center is a standout at the reconstructed World Trade Center site. Will people come?
    By Justin Davidson
  15. architecture
    The Last Painted Doors of RidgewoodFaux wood graining is an architectural quirk of the neighborhood. And a dying trade.
    By Clio Chang
  16. street view
    The Two Newest Luxury Towers Are a MoodCharcoal and bronze dominate at Brooklyn’s tallest building and Adjaye’s latest.
    By Justin Davidson
  17. city people
    What Dan Doctoroff BuiltUnder Mayor Bloomberg, the power broker remade the city with astonishing speed. Now, as New York is again mired in crisis, he faces his own.
    By Justin Davidson
  18. street view
    Reconsidering the Grand Civic StaircaseAt Steven Holl’s Hunters Point Library and across the city, a familiar architectural gesture has become a trap.
    By Justin Davidson
  19. crime
    The Gilgo Beach Murder Suspect Was a Busy New York ArchitectRex Heuermann’s clients included Cipriani, Target, and Nike.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  20. street view
    David Adjaye, Falling StarchitectCelebrity architects are propped up by a hive of workers. His may undo him.
    By Justin Davidson
  21. rendering judgment
    262 Fifth Is the Skinny di Tutti SkinniesJust 26 apartments in an 860-foot tower.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  22. urbanism
    Designing Cop CityWhat the evolution of the tactical village, from Riotsville to Atlanta, reveals about policing.
    By Diana Budds
  23. books
    New York City’s Latest Specialty Libraries for Design ObsessivesFrom critic Michael Sorkin’s collection at CUNY to the Brazilian modernism archive at R & Company.
    By Diana Budds
  24. long island
    Have You Seen the Courthouse Where George Santos Surrendered?Richard Meier’s behemoth is the Death Star of the Southern State Parkway.
    By Clio Chang
  25. architecture
    Snøhetta Workers Say They Want a UnionIf they succeed, Snøhetta would become only the second private firm to unionize in almost a century.
    By Clio Chang
  26. mirror mirror
    The Zaha Hadid AI Feedback LoopPatrik Schumacher is one architect eager to hand over design work to Midjourney.
    By Diana Budds
  27. architecture review
    The American Museum of Natural History Enters Its Modern Stone AgeThe new Gilder Center has folds of pink granite outside, rough shotcrete swoops within.
    By Justin Davidson
  28. street view
    The Mexican Architect Making Sublime Modern Buildings From Clay and Pine NeedlesUsing traditional Oaxacan techniques, Juan José Santibañez’s museums and schools have a tactile beauty.
    By Justin Davidson
  29. architecture
    There’s a Monument to South Central L.A. on Top of the MetOnce the run in New York ends, it goes back to its home community for permanent installation.
    By Diana Budds
  30. 21 questions
    Liz Diller Wears Zippered Sweatpants to Black-Tie EventsThe architect answers Curbed’s “21 Questions.”
    By Diana Budds
  31. design edit
    Rare Akari Light Sculptures, Alexander Girard Posters, and More FindsPlus, Public Records’ new “living room.”
    By Diana Budds
  32. books
    The 9 Best Architecture, Design, and Urbanism Books Out This SpringIncluding a compendium of Milton Glaser’s illustrations and a delightful collection of underground weed ads.
    By Curbed Staff
  33. architecture
    This Year’s Pritzker Winner is a Surprise, But Not in a Good WayAfter a decade of experimental, diverse winners, David Chipperfield feels like a safe choice.
    By Kate Wagner
  34. amenity wars
    Dumbo Is Displeased With Its Giant New Building“Olympia looks like a cruise ship. Meanwhile it’s literally positioned next to one of the greatest landmarks in all of the United States.”
    By Adriane Quinlan
  35. street view
    MoMA’s ‘Architecture Now’ Exists in Some Other New YorkOne that has fewer impediments and more money.
    By Justin Davidson
  36. architecture
    A Fight About Putin’s Reach Erupts at the Cooper UnionA show about a century-old Soviet school is at the heart of a debate over academic freedom and the school’s relationship to its Ukrainian neighbors.
    By Diana Budds
  37. street view
    One Way to a Better City: Ask Disabled People to Design ItWouldn’t everyone fare a little better if (to take just one example) airport luggage-screening counters were lower?
    By Justin Davidson
  38. architecture
    Bolsonaro’s Mob Targeted a Modernist MasterpieceIn attacking Brasilia, the Oscar Niemeyer–designed capital, rioters carried out a familiar far-right agenda.
    By Diana Budds
  39. 21 questions
    Adam Charlap Hyman Thinks His Epitaph Will Mention a Cheese Booth He DesignedThe architect answers Curbed’s “21 Questions.”
    By Drew Zeiba
  40. street view
    An Office Is Wherever We Decide It IsA new book chronicles employers’, architects’, and employees’ relentless reinvention of the workplace.
    By Justin Davidson
  41. classical-music review
    Geffen Hall Has Found Its SoundIt’s finally what it ought to have been all along — and it’s so clear, it may be a little too revealing for some conductors.
    By Justin Davidson
  42. street view
    The Upside-Down Building Is No Longer NovelAt Greenpoint’s new Eagle + West, cantilevers are just one more architectural gimmick.
    By Justin Davidson
  43. street view
    New St. Nick: The Glowed-up Greek Church at Ground ZeroThe tiny marble Greek Orthodox church next to the World Trade Center finally opens, 21 years after its predecessor was destroyed.
    By Justin Davidson
  44. reasons to love new york
    La Guardia Is Kind of RitzySky bridges have become something of a status symbol for airports around the world. La Guardia has two.
    By James D. Walsh
  45. street view
    Norman Foster’s Skyscrapers Are Perfect for the City That Just DisappearedAn impeccable space for office work arrives with everything—except a guarantee of office work.
    By Justin Davidson
  46. street view
    Keeping It Weird at 550 MadisonThe former AT&T/Sony tower gets a few of its spikier details sanded off but retains a lot of its Johnsonian strangeness.
    By Justin Davidson
  47. streeteries
    What Happens to All Those Temporary Dining Sheds Now?In the twilight of the city’s emergency Open Restaurants program, Chinatown’s small businesses are preparing their dining sheds for the long run.
    By Diana Budds
  48. 21 questions
    Rosalie Genevro Wants to Redesign the City’s Diners and Coffee ShopsThe outgoing executive director of the Architectural League answers Curbed’s “21 Questions.”
    As told to Diana Budds
  49. on set
    The Watcher in The Watcher Is (Probably) a Trad-Arch GuyThey don’t just have strong opinions about your countertops.
    By Diana Budds
  50. 21 questions
    Mario Gooden Holds On to All of His Early Mac ComputersThe architect answers Curbed’s “21 Questions.”
    As told to Diana Budds
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