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Just received the latest New York Review of Architecture . It has an advertisement that reminds me of the exploded axonometric drawings of the 1980s. rndrd.com/?p=431&c=8&y=3…

“In New York, track is back. Maybe it never even left.” Martin Dolan (Martin Dolan) reports from the cheap seats at the Millrose Games in NYRA no. 45. nyra.nyc/skyline/dispat…

“New York’s landmarks legislation is more invested in preserving a particular image of the city than the possibility of life within it.” marianela d’aprile considers the legacy of the Landmarks Law, and its limitations, on its sixtieth anniversary in NYRA no. 45. nyra.nyc/articles/law-l…

Samuel Medina with an outstanding joint review of Megalopolis and The Brutalist in the latest issue of New York Review of Architecture: "Every movie about architecture is bound to get it wrong." nyra.nyc/articles/bruta…

Today we launch a May Day fundraising drive. A friend of the magazine has offered to match any donations to celebrate our sixth birthday on May Day. Read a note from Paul Goldberger about why he supports NYRA, then support our work by making a donation. secure.givelively.org/donate/archite…

“‘Simplicity, lightness—those are words I like,’ Escobedo said. ‘God knows what elegance is.’” Ian Volner spends a night at the The Metropolitan Museum of Art with Frida Escobedo in NYRA no. 45. nyra.nyc/skyline/dispat…

What wisdom can be called upon in the plagues of the future? catherine liu, P.E. Moskowitz, jamieson webster, Michelle Millar Fisher, Adam Greenfield, and Brittany Utting reflect on the discourse of care after Covid in NYRA’s second ARCHFORUM questionnaire. nyra.nyc/articles/archf…

“What vision did these collectors have to select these objects from the Brimfieldian sprawl of America’s lost and found?” Nick Murray browses the wares at the Nameless Art + Design Show in NYRA no. 45. nyra.nyc/skyline/dispat…

“The sneakerati vote with their wallets—as well as with their feet.” Mario Carpo finds his footing in NYRA no. 45. nyra.nyc/articles/crep-…

“Sifting through the spoofable pedantry of ‘An Anarchitectural Body of Work’ reveals Suzanne Harris, intrepid multipotentialite.” canada reviews “An Anarchitectural Body of Work” by Friederike Schäfer in NYRA no. 45. nyra.nyc/articles/defyi…

“Before Sally’s orgasmic encounter with sliced turkey (Harry orders pastrami on rye), Joan Micklin-Silver captured the twilight of an earlier, actually Jewish milieu.” grace byron on ‘Crossing Delancey,’ recently reissued by Criterion Collection, in NYRA 45. nyra.nyc/articles/sweet…

All this hate for sidewalk sheds, but seemingly no one has any issue when they're called "arcades" or "porticoes"

“The interior is essentially untouched, as if some jealous god were appeased by a little sacrifice.” Nicholas Dames reviews the renovated Hungarian Pastry Shop in NYRA no. 45. nyra.nyc/articles/dobos…

“The overall effect is a copy-paste job of the undead Instagram aesthetic: flaxen faux bois for days, bowdlerized MCM, an abundance of beige, a fiddle-leaf fig." Sophie Van Well Groeneveld at the Capitol One Café in NYRA no. 45. nyra.nyc/articles/that-…

“Touloumi’s examination of the United Nation’s meticulously designed spaces offers an unintended material history of internationalism’s hollow performance.” Enrique Ramirez reviews Olga Touloumi’s “Assembly by Design” (U of MN Press) in NYRA no. 45. nyra.nyc/articles/phant…

“The fair did not, in fact, beget peace through understanding.” Leah Mandel (leah ☾) visits “A Billion Dollar Dream,” a critical retrospective of 1964–65 New York World’s Fair at the Queens Museum, in NYRA no. 45. nyra.nyc/articles/a-fai…

“‘Planners,’ possessed of a seemingly occult power, cast their ‘hex signs’ and zap—the city is ruined, drained of ‘vitality,’ a Jacobsian shibboleth that you can, it seems, feel but never define.” Andy Battle battles Jane Jacobs in NYRA no. 45. nyra.nyc/articles/where…

“New York, Hatherley argues, has been in the grips of a hidebound dogma for roughly the past sixty years.” Samuel Stein reviews Owen Hatherley's “Walking the Streets/Walking the Projects,” out from Repeater Books, in NYRA no. 45. nyra.nyc/articles/moder…

“The interiors prioritize an atmospheric peekaboo that hints at the intimacy of the gaze, letting you look without giving yourself away.” Whitney Mallett (Whitney Mallett) tries SKIMS on for size in NYRA no. 45. nyra.nyc/articles/skim-…

“It’s no surprise that daddy Duffy lacks the same zeal for mass transit as his predecessor, Mayor Pete, who, as a gay guy, has a genetic predisposition to enjoy cruising on the subway.” Erica Blackwater is congestion-curious in NYRA no. 45. nyra.nyc/articles/sudaf…