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New Yorkers don’t mind being underground when the surroundings are as welcoming as Rockefeller Center’s concourse or Grand Central Terminal’s Oyster Bar.

I grew up with what Peter Smithson described as a whiff of the powder of Modernism, and with a passion for its architecture – plus a presumption that architecture was women’s work,” Denise Scott Brown said in a recent interview with architecture curator Clare Farrow, recalling her Norman Hanson-designed childhood Johannesburg home and how it helped steer her towards her venerated career.

The United Arab Emirates says it will take steps to protect migrant workers, but are such measures enough? Photo © Samer Muscati/Human Rights Watch The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is taking steps to reform its labor laws, local authorities say.

As part of the Chicago Architecture Biennial’s kickoff last month, Rural Urban Framework (RUF), a Hong Kong–based nonprofit design lab run by architects Joshua Bolchover and John Lin, was awarded the 2015 Curry Stone Design Prize. 

After decades spent in thrall to the car, which brought it epic traffic jams across an ever-expanding urban sprawl, the Brazilian city of São Paulo has finally decided to try something different. Image courtesy Prefeitura de São Paulo The plan calls for an overhaul of the city's building code in order to accomodate taller mixed-use buildings. Fernando Haddad, the mayor of this metropolis of nearly