Architecture

Bird watching at an unlikely urban oasis: the Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant

How have dancers and their movements shaped the built environment of New York — and how has the city shaped them in return?

Up a marble staircase, in the attic of City Hall, a trio of civil servants steward an eclectic archive of city objects.

Local birds evicted from their usual habitats find themselves nesting and hunting atop skyscrapers, power lines, and traffic lights.

At the start of a new mayoral administration promising an urban transformation, eight practitioners discuss architecture’s role in shaping the social democratic city.

While hibernation and migration are the norm, some animals stay in the city for winter, seeking out opportunities in the heat we generate.

Ordering pad thai on an iPad in the muzak of a takeout food chain created in the pressure cooker of the post-pandemic economy.

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