Architecture

Plans for Chinatown placemaking have long called for a sculptural archway. Can this invented tradition reflect the diversity of social and cultural life in Chinatown today?

With school buildings ill-equipped to face the climate crisis, students advocate for retrofits and greener, healthier buildings.

New City Critics fellows — architects, journalists, artists, a city planner and a rapper among them — will be training a critical gaze on New York City over the next nine months.

A lot of art and a little science went into representing fifteen years of Urban Omnibus stories on a map of New York City.

To temporarily transform public space, Street Lab's lending library of outdoor furniture is designed to stand up to regular travel, extreme heat, and children's imaginations.

Forty years after its inauguration, there is still much to learn from a mold-breaking NYC playground that provided space for disabled kids to play alongside their non-disabled peers.

Workers across the building trades talk about what it takes to construct a just transition to a sustainable economy.