The new trade center must meet our need for a powerful memorial, a vibrant streetscape, and a brilliant skyline. Luckily, we have plans that do each, if not all.

Four new name-brand hotels reveal -- for better or worse -- the influence of boutique design on the mainstream; the new show at P.S. 1 is a screen gem.

The Cooper-Hewitt's eye-popping "Design Culture Now" show reveals the impact of computers on architecture and design -- but doesn't have much to say on the subject.

Jean Prouvé’s modular creations upended mid-century design; Vito Acconci turns architecture into performance art.

At the Venice Biennale, a new wave in architecture -- digital, abstract, evanescent as a dream -- all but displaced the Renaissance forms of old.

In a historic Hudson Valley setting, architect Frank Gehry works his ethereal design magic with a new performing-arts center for Bard College.

Turning Governors Island into a destination point with a conference center, shops, and restaurants could revitalize the harbor. But are the planners thinking big enough?

Masterpieces From the Vitra Design Museum: Furnishing the Modern Era Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution; through February 4.

A stolid pedestrian ramp at the NYSE is transformed with the luminous fluidity of a data stream; wrong turn at the Crossroads of the World.

Mies in America
at the Whitney
Mies in Berlin
at MoMA