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Preservation groups scrutinize the behavior of the developer, owner, and NYC Landmarks commission.

Architecture critic Mark Lamster discusses how moving forward should not entail erasing the past.

Gensler was recently issued a $1.66 million work permit for interior installation and removals.

The proposal replaces the Stony Creek granite facade on the lower levels with a glass curtain wall.

A $55-million-dollar redesign turns the iconic Midtown Manhattan destination into a pedestrian-friendly public plaza.

The new Centre International de l'Art Pariétal museum in France takes its cues from the famous prehistoric vault.

When it was founded in 1935, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) occupied one, then two floors of the War Memorial Veterans Building in the Hayes Valley neighborhood before moving into its purposebuilt, Mario Botta–designed home in nearby SoMa in 1995.

It’s an urban oasis, an indoor landscape, and an effective solution to brand a university campus otherwise lost in the chaos of downtown Toronto. Designed by Snøhetta in collaboration with local firm Zeidler Partnership Architects, Ryerson University’s new Student Learning Centre is an audacious bid to redefine the concept of an inner-city student commons. “The program is amazingly open,” says project architect Michael Cotton, of Snøhetta’s New York office. “It’s almost like a 10-story lobby. Sometimes we call it a library without books.”