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Civic Action Charrette

Thirteen designers and planners spend an afternoon with the League and the Noguchi Museum, drawing and thinking about how to advance a holistic, culture-led vision of Long Island City's possible futures.

Living Room: Housing Works Builds Housing

Gavin Browning calls attention to the supportive housing developments and programs of Housing Works so often overshadowed by the organization's more familiar street-level enterprises.

Recap | Women Shaping Our World: Architecture, Gender and Space

Like the process of building a home, the practice of architecture is the product of the many pieces locking harmoniously into place; of course, women are integral to this harmony.

Recap | What is Foreclosed?

An exhibition at MoMA explores new architectural possibilities for cities and suburbs in the aftermath of the recent foreclosure crisis.

Civic Action: A Vision for Long Island City, Part 1

A first look at a new initiative, developed by the Noguchi Museum and Socrates Sculpture Park, that invites artist-led teams to propose visions for the future of Long Island City.

Civic Action: A Vision for Long Island City, Part 2

What if one neighborhood were a place where the creativity that marks city life was championed?

BMW Guggenheim Lab: Confronting Comfort

Six of the minds behind the New York installment of an international traveling laboratory for urban experimentation discuss the theme of comfort in urban space.

BMW Guggenheim Lab: Confronting Comfort | Maria Nicanor

"We asked for a space in which we could do everything and anything."

Intelligent Cities

Susan Piedmont-Palladino and Scott Kratz talk about a National Building Museum initiative to explore how we live in cities today and how to make better decisions for our future.

Recap | Phantom City

Phantom Projects share aspect of unreality; not only were they visionary at the time they were introduced, but also unattainable.