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Clifford A. Pearson

Contributing editor Clifford Pearson is the co-author, with A. Eugene Kohn, of The World By Design, and writes about architecture and urbanism.

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Vocon and MdeAS Architects Polish Up Eero Saarinen’s ‘Black Rock’ CBS Building in New York

New York

Clifford A. Pearson

April 8, 2024

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The firms were charged with updating the building’s common areas while retaining the unapologetic midcentury swagger of Saarinen’s sole high-rise.

Designers Bring a Cinematic Approach to a Boutique Hotel in Asheville

Clifford A. Pearson

March 29, 2024

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Storytelling drives the conversion of a long-abandoned former cereal factory into the Radical, a buzzy destination in North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Mountains.

Fogarty Finger Creates a Brooklyn Office Building That Contributes to a Rapidly Changing Area

Clifford A. Pearson

March 25, 2024

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The 24-story spec office building at 141 Willoughby occupies a prominent trapezoidal site flanked by busy Flatbush Avenue.

Landscape

A Colorful Café and Pavilion by SelgasCano Enliven a Sprawling Housing Complex in China

Rizhao, China

Clifford A. Pearson

March 11, 2024

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Wiggling through a phalanx of mid-rise housing blocks, the covered promenade serves as a colorful antidote to its regimented setting.

A Full-Block Office Building Rises on Park Avenue for the First Time in Half a Century

New York

Clifford A. Pearson

March 1, 2024

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Foster + Partners' commercial tower on New York's fanciest boulevard combines old-school grandeur with flexible function.

LNAI Architecture Unwraps a 1960s Office Building and Reinvents It as a New Kind of Workplace

Clifford A. Pearson

February 22, 2024

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An aging, low-slung Bay Area office complex is stripped down and resuscitated with a beguiling new facade and lushly planted central courtyard.

A New Airport Terminal in Bengaluru Brings Nature Inside

Bengalaru, India

Clifford A. Pearson

January 9, 2024

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With the new Terminal 2 at Kempegowda International Airport, SOM leans into Bengaluru's moniker as the "garden city of India."

Gluck+ Creates a School as a Social and Spatial Crossroads

Elmhurst, New York

Clifford A. Pearson

August 28, 2023

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A once-transient NYC charter school puts down roots in a mixed-use tower in Elmhurst, Queens, after a multi-year search for a new home.

In Finland, JKMM Shoehorns the Chappe Art House into a Historic Town

Clifford A. Pearson

July 17, 2023

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The small museum defers to its urban context while asserting its own identity.

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A Czech Monastery's Multi-Use Public Pavilion Pays Homage to the Architect of Modern Genetics

Clifford A. Pearson

June 20, 2023

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“We aimed to translate Gregor Mendel’s laws into architecture,” says Ondřej Chybík of Design Vanguard firm Chybík + Krištof.

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