Original Waldorf-Astoria, 5th and 34th (future site of Empire State Building), Henry Hardenbergh 1893, demolished 1929. Photo courtesy Library of Congress

Really worth reading 👀 "The surge in construction of the large data centers... [is] emerging as another potential contributor to America’s housing shortage... selling parcels to data-center developers can be far more profitable than any other use of the land."

"Winter Scene from My Window," 1933, by Allan Rohan Crite, influential Boston-based African American artist & illustrator whose work is now on view in a show at Rutgers University's Zimmerli Art Museum zimmerli.rutgers.edu/art/exhibiti...

Looking forward to the Raclette Olympics 🔥

A little (okay, big) half-timbering treat for the weekend. 7616 Rogers Ave., ca. 1915?

Excellent read by @aluckmann.bsky.social on the new wave of Shaker appreciation www.archpaper.com/2026/02/shak...

I am very excited to share that I signed a publishing contract today for my forthcoming book, Grand Central Terminal and the Rise of Midtown Manhattan, with SUNY Press. Estimated release date is the end of 2028. I know my Dad is smiling down.

For #SuperbOwl Sunday, an owl-themed painting that is hands down one of my favorite artworks of all time: Singing Cats Led by an Owl, by an unidentified Lombard artist from circa 1700. Looks closely at the mice used as musical notes (and the butt trumpet as well)

It's so cold in Boston right now that packs of coyotes are able to cross the water today. 📸: @jcass35

Balthazar Korab, 1959: Minoru Yamasaki, Reynolds Metals Regional Office, Southfield, Mich. www.loc.gov/resource/ds....

A bit of a bleak day weather-wise today, but Fountains Abbey is still beautiful and atmospheric, regardless! 😍 Here’s the lovely 12th century bridge on the left and breakwater to the right.

A friend's daughter plays in the Delft university orchestra, and my friend shared this incredibly cool graphic for their next concert:

Model for Museum of Modern Art, Philip L. Goodwin and Edward Durell Stone, 1939

“my place Saturday tapping a new cask of amontillado come on over”

Hope everyone is ok in the cold snap 🥶. Photo by former Isokon resident László Moholy-Nagy after he left London and moved to the USA

Restoration detail from Notre-Dame, Paris (last week)

Attention architectural historians: Vincent Scully's house is for sale... @langealexandra.bsky.social @christinecipriani.bsky.social @bgoldst.bsky.social www.zillow.com/homedetails/...

DUMBO as a working port, c. 1910 (Center for Brooklyn History)

Sourcing for movie night: What's your favorite CHRISTMAS CAROL movie adaptation?

I never tire of the Wurts Brothers' architectural photos of early-20th-century New York. Here is Richard Wurts, c. 1939, with an image from the World’s Fair. (Museum of the City of New York)

Oh, Frank Gehry. I spent a lovely, lovely hour with him in his office a few years ago. He kept apologizing for having forgotten so much, but he remembered what mattered. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/a...

Happy hols from the Harvard Lampoon

Here is the Stahl family's FB message regarding the sale of Case Study House 22. Possibly my all-time #1 architecture tour... Carlotta and Mark Stahl were hosting and it was absolutely magical. No one wanted to leave. Won't be the same under new owners, esp. given likely price tag, but 🤞

World-class trolling (Trump plans to paint Eisenhower Building white) www.archpaper.com/2025/11/pres...

❤️ “An overt reference to New York City's skyline, the ‘Manhattan’ cocktail set represents the 1930s fascination with all things modern and urban."

I need someone to tell me that this is not real That the most important building in America has not been turned into a sleazy 80s AC casino

Trump has fired the entire Commission of Fine Arts, and also -- there's a rendering -- www.thedailybeast.com/trump-fires-...

Happy news. This series is such a monument.

The private White House Historical Association has a statement on the East Wing that reads like a hostage video. They have (ahem) photographed the rooms for posterity, and "historic artifacts from the East Wing have been preserved and stored." How many...? www.whitehousehistory.org/press-room/p...

These are great images. Do we know if they saved the paintings? So many questions.

Oct 24, 1919: The Los Angeles Philharmonic performed its first concert at the Trinity Auditorium in #DTLA. timelines.latimes.com/los-angeles-... #performingarts It was great to see the #LAPhil archives on display at the #ArchivesBazaar last Saturday!

I didn't even know this existed -- too late --

Picture of the East Wing demolition of the White House taken on my flight out of DCA.

OK, this is good and brightened my day. By illustrator Sean Suchara

The thing is: It's probably NOT going to be torn down after Trump. Demolition will be seen as wasteful and histrionic. It's probably permanent.

This is so cool --

It will dwarf the actual White House and be paid for by "Google, R.J. Reynolds, Booz Allen Hamilton, Lockheed Martin, Palantir, NextEra Energy," and so on.

What a great idea! --

Forest Park, Illinois. I kind of like it even though I don't know what it is.

Ary Scheffer (Dutch-French), Le petit atelier, 1850

Rockport by night

Reminds me of Jim Stirling's 'boatshop / bookshop' in Venice

New Yorker cover by Mary Petty, May 24, 1941.

Ada Louise Huxtable was ON IT (1965): Cumbernauld "is a remarkable creative exercise in the pursuit of total environment, carried out with extraordinarily subtle and sophisticated details." nyti.ms/3UYECx7

“With the grounds and studio now open, the foundation has invited the Palisades Library to hold family storytimes and book clubs onsite.” ❤️

Fantastically theatrical stairway in an apartment block in Metz.

Best news item this summer (NYT). I want to order a root-beer float from this character, and then write a children’s book about the experience.

Incredible old elevator, Red Lion Inn, Stockbridge, Mass.