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”All I’ll say is that if Lady Whistledown wrote on architecture, she would be working at NYRA." We receive a lot of testimonials, but were so touched by this letter we recently received that we asked the student if we could share them with our audience.

“Why must we ask for permission to open a show or to live in an apartment that is sitting empty, accruing value for an absent owner?” Andreas Petrossiants revisits ABC No Rio in NYRA no. 46/46 nyra.nyc/articles/squ...

“Knickerbocker Village’s record of democratic governance suggests that simply voting blue harder won’t resolve chronic housing issues.” Charlie Dulik inspects a breach in Manhattan’s blue wall in NYRA no. 46/47. nyra.nyc/articles/kni...

“‘[There’s] something fascinating about seeing something so big come down,’ murmured the man with the mic.” Sue Park attends a memorial for Kingda Ka in NYRA no. 46/47. nyra.nyc/skyline/disp...

“How much Minecraft is enough? To quote John D. Rockefeller, ‘Just a little bit more.’” Travis Diehl yearns for the metaverse in NYRA no. 46/47. nyra.nyc/articles/for...

“A bad mood board of good intentions.” — lol via @glindsay.bsky.social

"Rather than a battle for the future of Brooklyn, the conflict over Atlantic Yards devolved into a tug-of-war between competing short-term interests." Willa Glickman attends a screening of “The Battle for Brooklyn” (2011) in NYRA no. 46/47. nyra.nyc/skyline/disp...

“Flatness—thinness—means something other than it did in 1912 or 1955. Who, amid the image-thin spectacle of daily life, could think it’s a virtue?” Phil Coldiron immerses himself in "Laura Owens," up last spring at Matthew Marks, in NYRA no 46/47. nyra.nyc/articles/imm...

“By Saturday, the pavilions had started to blur into a bad mood board of good intentions. Nordic: Trans. Korea: Cats. Canada: Bacteria. Uruguay: Water. Brazil: Wood. Australia: Sandbox.” Eric Schwartau vernissages in Venice in NYRA no. 46/47. nyra.nyc/articles/ver...

“Who could have guessed that microcinema was the intersection of the NYRA–New York Post Venn diagram?” Eric Schwartau attends the premiere of Low Cinema in NYRA no. 46/47. nyra.nyc/skyline/disp...

You’re invited to join us—in Los Angeles—at the launch of the second issue of Los Angeles Review of Architecture! nyra.nyc/larsvp

I walked into a premodernist Broadway theater, and I walked out of a postmodernist commercial tower.” Samuel Stein comes to this place for magic in NYRA no. 46/47. nyra.nyc/articles/tim...

We definitely built our own website: nyra.nyc Not particularly easy, but people say they like it.

“Buildings themselves serve as construction sites of labor relations.” Happy Labor Day weekend! In honor of the workers of the world, we’re reading Jessica Fletcher’s review of “Building the Metropolis” (@uchicagopress.bsky.social‬) by Alexander Wood in NYRA no. 46/47. nyra.nyc/articles/we-...

The website that I co-own Defector.com is hosting a RARE sale where you get three months of blogs for just $5! That’s something like 600 blogs for FIVE AMERICAN DOLLARS. Pretty good deal imo and you get to support worker-owned media.

“These monographs are accessible without being patronizing, comprehensive without being academic, visually rich without being ‘coffee table’: exemplary projects of popular education.” Owen Hatherley is bio-curious in NYRA no. 46/47. nyra.nyc/articles/bui...

"Ross finds in the precapitalist rhythms of the paysans the seeds of a postcapitalist ecology." @jakeromm.bsky.social‬ doesn’t put peasantries aside in NYRA no. 46/47. nyra.nyc/articles/to-...

"It seems that we are sending our best and brightest into a buzz saw." Samuel Stein, @ceaweaver.bsky.social, jonathantarleton.bsky.social‬, Danielle Jackson, and mosesnyc.bsky.social��� consider the obstacles and opportunities ahead of Zohran Mamdani. https://nyra.nyc/articles/zohran-agonistes

“CECOT represents a new institutional form: a prison that collapses the individual cells of modern incarceration into mass containment, structured not for rehabilitation but for spectacle.” hewittward.bsky.social‬ opts out of the spectacle in NYRA no. 46/47. nyra.nyc/articles/mug...te

Chicago Review of Architecture reviews architecture in Chicago. We are pleased to share that we have received a grant from the Graham Foundation for a Chicago Review of Architecture.

“The fitness regimen couldn’t have been more suited to its venue, since the Vessel is basically a Facetuned StairMaster crossed with a CB2 lighting pendant.” Lari Rutschmann scales the Vessel in NYRA no. 46/47. nyra.nyc/skyline/disp...

Spotted.

Yoooo this is gonna be so much fun w/ @anjulierao.bsky.social @katewagner.wehwalt.net @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social

I wrote about park conservancies for @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/mfri...

“There are, of course, some experiences that you just cannot realize without the paternalism of private enterprise.” @mfriedrichnyc.bsky.social‬ puts out park conservancies to pasture in NYRA no. 46/47. nyra.nyc/articles/cen...

“It is the right time for new insights into Gins’s cunning and expansive gameplay, where everything is up for grabs and anything is possible.” Clare Fentress unravels “Madeline Gins: Infinite Systems" in NYRA no. 46/47. nyra.nyc/articles/eve...

“The functional comforts and false organicism of midcentury design become even more clinical—and chilling—here.” Moze Halperin communes with his innie in NYRA no. 46/47. nyra.nyc/articles/how...

“Our hypersynchronous age has even taught Christian Marclay a few things about timekeeping. It turned out that ‘The Clock’'s horology was (slightly) out of joint.“ Nolan Kelly watches the clock in NYRA no. 46/47. nyra.nyc/articles/is-...

“Carrie’s apartment was always a chimeric construction, a floating figment of our collective aspiration.” And Just Like That…the ‘Sex and the City’ saga comes to an end tonight. Greta Rainbow considers the cult of Carrie’s stoop ahead of the franchise’s finale. nyra.nyc/articles/car...

Whoosh!

It was better in the Breuer, no contest

check out my review of the exhibition ABC No Rio 45 Years at the Emily Harvey Foundation in @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social here nyra.nyc/articles/squ...

“Westbeth has the tenants of an artists loft, the ethos of a co-op, and the landlords of the projects.” Michael Casper reviews Peter Trachtenberg’s “The Twilight of Bohemia: Westbeth and the Last Artists of New York” in NYRA no. 46/47. nyra.nyc/articles/the...

“Law enforcement needed lamps. Nightshift workers needed lamps. Malls needed lamps. Emergency services needed lamps. Moralists needed the metaphor of lamps.” @elvia-wilk.bsky.social doesn’t love lamp in NYRA no. 46/47. nyra.nyc/articles/the...

“Can aura be analyzed? Broken down into its constituent parts? Made to hold still for critical dissection?” hawthorne.bsky.social‬ reviews Julian Rose’s “Building Culture” from princetonupress.bsky.social��� in NYRA no. 46/47. https://nyra.nyc/articles/winging-it

“The updated Frick Collection is a fancy and pricey enterprise, and New Yorkers seem accustomed to the idea that therefore it must be a great one.” Thomas de Monchaux visits the newly renovated frickcollection.bsky.social‬ in NYRA no. 46/47.nyra.nyc/articles/fri...ed

check out @elvia-wilk.bsky.social 's amazing piece about light pollution in the new issue of @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social

I love the cover art that @seansuchara.bsky.social did for this issue of NYRA. It's fabulous! A terrific homage and rendition of Seurat's "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte" with our beloved rats.

“Design, here, makes power analysis part of the furniture.” Olivia Oldham reviews the Smithsonian Design Triennial at Cooper Hewitt, which closes on August 10, for NYRA no. 46/47. nyra.nyc/articles/gre...

“But one thing distinguished—and still distinguishes—Industry City from Chelsea Market: The lots on which it sits are zoned for manufacturing.” @maridapr.bsky.social‬ reviews Kelly Anderson and Jay Arthur Sterrenberg’s documentary “Emergent City” in NYRA no. 46/47. nyra.nyc/articles/dev...

An honor to review the new NYC subway map for the mighty @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social!

I went long for @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social about inequality in public space, the Bank of America Winter Village-ization of the urban commons, and why we should stop relying on an undertaxed donor class to fund our parks. nyra.nyc/articles/cen...

Good stuff from Charlie Dulik for @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social on the Elizabeth Street Garden and the Gen X–Gen Z coalition fighting to keep low-income senior housing out of New York. Patti Smith wins a rare L here: nyra.nyc/articles/wre...

“It’s horseshoe theory in the shape of a one-acre lot—equal parts fake trad and fake rad.” Charlie Dulik mows down Elizabeth Street Garden in NYRA’s latest WRECKING BALL column. nyra.nyc/articles/wre...

Introducing NYRA #46/47: La Grande Ratte! Subscribe to get the latest and greatest from NYRA—that’s 79,634 words for just seven dollars. nyra.nyc/subscribe

Elvia Wilk for @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social on streetlights, light pollution and what (all) we lose to light. It's an important, timely essay touching on fossil fuel-addled electricity consumption, night lights and its impact on work and endless consumption. nyra.nyc/articles/the...

For the newest issue of the @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social, I reviewed two books by Kristin Ross (@versobooks.bsky.social): on the critique of everyday life, the commune form, and the social paysan as revolutionary subject nyra.nyc/articles/to-...

Today is the last day to subscribe and receive our current issue, no. 45, in the mail. And, if you subscribe today, you’ll receive two issues for the price of one. Be like the good people over at Michael Maltzan Architecture: read NYRA! nyra.nyc/subscribe

We have a summer launch party, in Forte Greene, tonight - something like 500 people are coming. You should, too! nyra.nyc/rsvp