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The End of Sidewalk Labs

March 22, 2022

An inside look at how the Google affiliate's vision for an "urban tech revolution" hit a wall, ultimately leading to the company's demise.

Lessons from Brad Pitt’s Failed Architectural Experiment in New Orleans

With Make it Right houses in disrepair, a community reckons with what went wrong

Martin C. Pedersen

March 21, 2022

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Despite drawing world-famous architects, Pitt’s Make it Right housing initiative has been plagued by shoddy construction and safety hazards.

Frank Gehry Design for Los Angeles Performing Arts Campus Unveiled

Weaving together interior and exterior spaces, the Colburn Center will complete a three-block district of Gehry’s work

Izzy Kornblatt

March 16, 2022

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Joining three adjacent Gehry buildings, the Colburn Center will complete the largest concentration of the architect’s work in the world.

DESIGN:ED Podcast: Deborah Berke

The Yale dean delves into the design of NXTHVN, a new adaptive reuse project

RECORD Editors

March 16, 2022

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Deborah Berke joins RECORD's DESIGN:ED podcast to discuss her work as dean of Yale, authenticity in architecture, and the design of NXTHVN.

Diébédo Francis Kéré Named 2022 Pritzker Laureate

Izzy Kornblatt

March 15, 2022

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Kéré, the first Black architect to receive the Pritzker, pursues a rigorous social mission while creating buildings of rich materiality and expressive force.

Frida Escobedo Tapped by Met for Long-Awaited Modern Wing Renovation

The Mexico City-based architect succeeds David Chipperfield Architects in redesigning the museum’s modern and contemporary art wing

Pansy Schulman

March 14, 2022

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The Mexico City-based architect succeeds David Chipperfield Architects in redesigning the Met's modern and contemporary art wing after a $125 million donation restarted the museum's ambitious project.

Tribute: Gyo Obata (1923-2022)

The noted midwestern modernist died March 8 at 99

Fred A. Bernstein

March 11, 2022

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A co-founder of HOK and noted expressionist designer, Obata died March 8 at 99.

Williams and Tsien Bring Colorful Reconfigured Public Spaces to Lincoln Center’s David Geffen Hall

James S. Russell, FAIA Emeritus

March 9, 2022

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The New York Philharmonic and Lincoln Center unveil new details of the redesign of the perpetually troubled 1962 David Geffen Hall.

A Flawed MoMA Exhibition Erases the Social Context of South Asian Modernism

Review: “The Project of Independence: Architectures of Decolonization in South Asia, 1947 – 1985” at the Museum of Modern Art in New York

Ranjani Srinivasan

March 4, 2022

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“The Project of Independence: Architectures of Decolonization in South Asia, 1947 – 1985,” on view at the Museum of Modern Art, ignores the failings of modernist design and planning.