New City Critics

Three Ways to Reclaim Wood

Brooklyn-based studio Tri-Lox intervenes on the city’s waste stream, repurposing wood to furnish everything from Shake Shack interiors to Shakespeare in the Park.

New City Critics

The Future, Encapsulated

With a fragment of the Tokyo Nakagin Capsule Tower preserved for posterity, a MoMA exhibition provides more than one perspective on planned obsolescence.

New City Critics

Can’t We Have Both?

A very short story debates two long-term visions for vital infrastructure in Queens.