Architecture
Design and Deploy
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.
Why Aren’t All Playgrounds For All Children?
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.
Building Solidarity
Workers across the building trades talk about what it takes to construct a just transition to a sustainable economy.
Call for Applications: New City Critics 2024
A fellowship program to empower new, fearless, and diverse voices to challenge the ways we understand, design, and develop our cities.
Watch This Space
Over two decades of twists and turns and promises unmet, one journalist has been keeping a close eye on the saga of Atlantic Yards.
All-Access Art
What makes an inclusive museum? Art institutions are reassessing their buildings and their budgets to meet the moment.
Behind the Curtain
Massage parlor storefronts along New York City streets are an invitation to wellbeing . . . and suspicion. Red Canary Song reframes these spaces for intimate bodywork in terms of care, healing, and survival.
Make Yourself at Home
Three researchers explore how queer, Black, and undocumented communities subvert and transcend dominant norms and forms of housing in New York City.
This Old House
New York City is responsible for the care of 23 centuries-old farmsteads and mansions. What do these historic properties owe present day New Yorkers?
Building Out of a Tight Spot
An architect faces New York City's housing crisis and climate crisis, one building at a time.