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  1. street view
    The Googleplex Is GrowingGoogle’s new St. John’s Terminal headquarters, meant to lure workers back to the office, is a city within a building.
    By Justin Davidson
  2. street view
    The Showman Becomes the RealistBjarke Ingels and the limitations of building in New York.
    By Justin Davidson
  3. street view
    The New Jersey Hindu Temple Covered With 10,000 SculpturesMarble elephants, ample parking, and a federal investigation into how it all got built.
    By Justin Davidson
  4. street view
    Light-Drenched Offices Fill the Shell of Domino SugarA refinery with a dirty past, spotlessly reimagined.
    By Justin Davidson
  5. architecture
    Inside the City’s Gleaming New Performance CubeThe Perelman Performing Arts Center is a standout at the reconstructed World Trade Center site. Will people come?
    By Justin Davidson
  6. street view
    Lever House Gets a Squeaky-Clean RestorationPrecisely reproducing its opening-day sheen. Next up: the Waldorf.
    By Justin Davidson
  7. architecture review
    The American Museum of Natural History Enters Its Modern Stone AgeThe new Gilder Center has folds of pink granite outside, rough shotcrete swoops within.
    By Justin Davidson
  8. street view
    The Bronx Children’s Museum Is Just Antic EnoughLike a peek into a happy kid’s brain.
    By Justin Davidson
  9. street view
    Keeping It Weird at 550 MadisonThe former AT&T/Sony tower gets a few of its spikier details sanded off but retains a lot of its Johnsonian strangeness.
    By Justin Davidson
  10. architecture review
    The New Geffen Hall Is Open. How Does It Sound?It’s too early to say. But the inaugural concert today (with two very different types of ensembles) was encouraging.
    By Justin Davidson
  11. street view
    An Exhibit Imagines How Design Can Reconnect CommunitiesIf only it weren’t illegal.
    By Justin Davidson
  12. street view
    The Start-up Aesthetic Defines New York’s Two New Ivy CampusesThey say they want to engage the community, but that outreach is self-limiting.
    By Justin Davidson
  13. street view
    The Battery Maritime Building Is Beautiful, But It’s No Longer OursA gracious public structure taken mostly private.
    By Justin Davidson
  14. architecture review
    The Observation Deck at One Vanderbilt Is a Ridiculous Place“Surely there’s a better way than assaulting them with lights and mirrors.”
    By Justin Davidson
  15. architecture review
    Manhattan West Is (a Little Bit) What Hudson Yards Should Have BeenIt’s still a corporate simulacrum of a city, but given the history of such gestures, it’s surprising they got it anywhere close to right.
    By Justin Davidson
  16. street view
    A New Arts Compound in East Williamsburg That Draws You InThe Amant arts center faces the city with severity but aims to cosset visitors.
    By Justin Davidson
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    A Slice of the SkyThe supertall 111 West 57th is what the ruling class builds for itself.
    By Justin Davidson
  18. street view
    Little Island Won Me OverThe tiny public-but-private garden squeezes in a multitude of experiences.
    By Justin Davidson
  19. cityscape
    The Shed at Hudson Yards Stays Half-True to Its Radical RootsWhether it busts out of tameness is up to the programmers.
    By Justin Davidson
  20. cityscape
    Growing Out of the ’60s: The Ford Foundation Building Gets RenewedPlantings that work, restored mid-century credenzas — and, finally, wheelchair access that’s not through the back.
    By Justin Davidson
  21. urban planning
    Nashville Is Supposed to Be the Model Walkable 21st-Century City. Not Quite.A walkable downtown that’s still pretty car-dependent.
    By Justin Davidson
  22. urban design
    Behold the Next New Astor PlaceIt survived riots and punks. How about low-key plazas and cute NYU kids?
    By Justin Davidson
  23. architecture
    Can We Get Development in Bushwick Right?At the Rheingold site, ODA tries to balance the needs and wants of rich and poor alike.
    By Justin Davidson
  24. architecture
    What You’re Really Seeing From the 100th Floor of One World Trade CenterAt the highest high, it’s a great, complicated metropolis. 
    By Justin Davidson
  25. The New Whitney Building Is OpenThe architect mistakes virtue for personality.
    By Justin Davidson
  26. Why Frank Gehry’s Fondation Louis Vuitton Building Is a MasterpieceBut you have to see it to understand it.
    By Justin Davidson
  27. architecture
    Who Wants a Supertall Skyline? The Emerging Aesthetic of the 1,000-Foot TowerDozens of supertall buildings are being built or planned. If we avert our gaze, we’ll get a bundle of glass stakes fencing off the air above ­Manhattan.
    By Justin Davidson
  28. architecture
    In Praise of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Midwestern Design VirtuesHe was the rare architect who felt landscape in his bones and whose buildings improve on nature.
    By Justin Davidson
  29. A Visit to the Top of the World Trade CenterFour World Trade Center is done; One World Trade, nearly so.
    By Justin Davidson