Jake Bittle was Architectural Record’s 2016 American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME) intern. He is a contributing writer at Grist and a freelance reporter covering climate change, energy, and housing. His book about climate migration, The Great Displacement, is forthcoming from Simon & Schuster.
A new exhibition at the National Building Museum explores cities designed in secret by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and other firms, then built from scratch during World War II.
In his annual State of the State address on January 3, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo reaffirmed his commitment to a large-scale renovation of Manhattan’s Pennsylvania Station.
The city of Columbus, Indiana, isn’t just one of the most architecturally-rich places in the United States—it’s also among the most overlooked. Where else can one find works by Eliel and Eero Saarinen, Cesar Pelli, Richard Meier, Kevin Roche, and I.M. Pei, all in thirty square miles? Landmark Columbus, a new preservation group established last year, has been working to elevate the city’s cultural status through the first annual Exhibit Columbus—an “exploration of architecture, art, design, and community” that kicked off September 29.
Now that New York’s legendary Four Seasons Restaurant has served its last supper, the elegant furniture and dinnerware that populated its two dining rooms are going their separate ways.
