“The Shakers may be the only millenarian Christians in American history who need sinners like you and me to think they’re cool.” Jackson Arn contemplates the work of art in the age of puritanical reproduction in NYRA no. 50. nyra.nyc/articles/sha...

I will not be in L.A. but this must be very interesting: @hawthorne.bsky.social @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social @lamaterial.bsky.social luma.com/5ysm82a3?utm...

Honored and somewhat mystified to have won a National Magazine Award for my @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social piece on Paul Rudolph alongside the great @monchaux.bsky.social, who won for two of his NYRA pieces (on Rudolph and the new Frick). Architectural criticism forever! nyra.nyc/articles/meg...

“Showy and detached and hyperformally expressive buildings cannot be merely coincidental with showy and detached men who believe they have a lot to say.” @monchaux.bsky.social judges David Adjaye’s recent museum projects in NYRA 50. nyra.nyc/articles/debris-of-separation

Thank you to all our readers and subscribers for fêting the big 5-0 with us! www.instagram.com/p/DYSIE0TEdg...

“Who but Wallace Shawn and André Gregory would dare serve up this steaming brew of Sleepytime and manage to make such a riveting night of theater?” Moze Halperin is aflutter over Wallace Shawn’s MOTH DAYS in NYRA 50. nyra.nyc/articles/shawn-of-the-dead

About last night.

Nice thread

@nyreviewofarch.bsky.social issue 50

It may be our fiftieth issue, but it features several firsts, including our first guest cover illustrator, Madelon Vriesendorp. Subscribe today to get no. 50 and the Guide delivered to your door. nyra.nyc/subscribe

“You fall into a series of articles that are irreverent, witty, passionate, and always well-written. These contributors are, first of all, very good writers—who happen to be writing about architecture.” — Billie Tsien Our brand-new, Billie-approved issue: nyra.nyc/issues/50

My humble contribution to the @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social’s stunning Guide to New York City

Paul Goldberger and @markkrotov.bsky.social debate the merits of Norman Foster’s JPMorgan Chase tower our brand new NYRA no. 50. nyra.nyc/articles/normcores

So grateful to @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social—and especially Sammy Medina and Chloe Wyma—for letting me Sorkinize about the worst new building in New York alongside Paul Goldberger (who likes it).

absolutely banger cover

Our fiftieth issue is here! nyra.nyc

Two critics joyfully agree to disagree in NYRA no. 49. Want to submit your own letter to the editor? Write to us at [email protected]. nyra.nyc/articles/joie-de-livre

To celebrate NYRA’s septennial alongside International Workers’ Day, we’re cutting the price of an annual subscription to $51 from now until May 7. A full year of the most rambunctious urban criticism around for less than a New York wine bar chicken! nyra.nyc/subscribe/may-day-2026

“You don’t need to be an architect or a New Yorker to appreciate NYRA.” Thanks for including us among your favorites reads, @mprnews.org! mprnews.org/story/2025/12/29/mpr-newsroom-best-book-picks-of-2025

The Corman/McCoy debate lives on in NYRA no. 49 as two Santa Monicans exchange memories of 2501 La Mesa Drive. Want to submit your own letter to the editor? Write to us at [email protected]. nyra.nyc/articles/pool-talk

Thanks to our Ionic-tier subscribers and Storefront for Art and Architecture for joining us for a conversation between NYRA editor Samuel Medina and architect Toshiko Mori. For more special events like these, subscribe at the supporter level. nyra.nyc/subscribe

An Angelino and an Englishman (cc: @ollywainwright.bsky.social) break a lance in LARA no. 2. Want to pen your own letter to the editor? Get in touch at [email protected]. nyra.nyc/articles/i-get-around

Dig into the debate over Elizabeth Street Garden in NYRA no. 49. Want to submit your own letter to the editor? Get in touch at [email protected]. nyra.nyc/articles/choler-green

“The median home price is $16 million, and the setting is fucking beautiful.” Mimi Zeiger gets some elevation in LARA no. 2. nyra.nyc/skyline/dispatches/high-times

if anyone in NYC (or LA) is interested in architecture/design events this is a great calendar from @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social nyra.nyc/events

Fifty issues later, we’re older, wiser, and still rat-infested! Celebrate our Big Five-O at Van Alen Institute on Thursday, May 7. Open bar generously provided by Kings County Distillery and Talea Beer Co. Link for tickets: nyra.nyc/events/new-york-review-of-architecture-issue-50-launch-party

“A lawn is someone’s moral sign. It’s also—and wonderfully—a gift to the street.” D. J. Waldie mulls the lawn in LARA no. 2 nyra.nyc/articles/suburban-legend

“Fay’s sculptures have the effect of rendering a pear pearish: not just one fruit crammed among many but a bizarre conjunction of textures, tones, and curvatures...” Kim Hew-Low digs into Ming Fay’s MIDNITE PORRIDGE, which was on view at Kurimanzutto, in NYRA 49. nyra.nyc/articles/veggie-tales

The great New York City subway map debate chugs along (cc: @markkrotov.bsky.social). Want to submit your own letter to the editor? Get in touch at [email protected]. nyra.nyc/articles/type:letter-to-the-editors

“Archival finds document Moses’s built legacy as it crumbles around us, all too slowly.” Hallie Ayres bookkeeps the Power Broker in NYRA no. 49. nyra.nyc/articles/raster-builder

“The Haida Hide, rescued from its prefab purgatory, might yet end up a beacon of Svenssonian modernism rather than a relic stranded by speculation and sprawl.” Eric Schwartau has cabin fever in LARA no. 2. nyra.nyc/articles/catty-shack

Bicoastal curious? Start a subscription at the link below before Friday, April 3, and you’ll receive not only our current issue, NYRA no. 49, but also our special Los Angeles edition, LARA no. 2—an entire extra issue at no extra cost! nyra.nyc/subscribe/bi...

“There’s a world where the art of the review is alive and well—and printed on cheap, single-color newsprint.” NYRA appears in good company in Carolina Abbott Galvão’s story on the resurgence of little magazines @columjournreview.bsky.social! www.cjr.org/feature/inside-the-reviewnaissance.php

“This riot also prefigured the healing potential of a vibrationally Black space-time—a futurist orientation that resonated across the exhibition.” Victor J. Jones attends a riot of sound in LARA no. 2. nyra.nyc/skyline/dispatches/hood-vibrations

“Like air, globalization is a hard thing to grab ahold of. Living near the Port of Oakland means having a peripheral sense of the fortunes of this great global slosh.” James Graham catches his breath in West Oakland in LARA no. 2. nyra.nyc/articles/air-apparent

“Is it possible that this monster, with its assortment of mismatched infrastructural parts, just wants to be loved?” Ian Volner finds beauty in the beastly Cross Bronx Expressway in NYRA 49. nyra.nyc/skyline/dispatches/cross-bronx-expressway-living-legend

“It was there that she could live as she ‘always wished to. In a most beautiful natural setting close to a city. With modern rooms and freedom to move about.’” Marissa Gluck dwells on the Galka Scheyer House in LARA no. 2. nyra.nyc/skyline/dispatches/neutra-dame

“Was this Zumthor and Govan’s plan all along, to turn the metropolis inside out, INCEPTION style?” Mimi Zeiger traverses LACMA’s David Geffen Galleries in LARA no. 2. nyra.nyc/skyline/dispatches/lacma-daisical

“The sheer vehemence of his argument and the dogged, almost mad attention that subtends it make THE STONES a singular piece of criticism.” Phil Coldiron leaves no stone of Venice unturned in NYRA 49. nyra.nyc/articles/und...

“It wasn’t my first brush with the all-seeing eye…nor would it be my last.” Michael Casper is ready for his Google Street View close-up in LARA 2. nyra.nyc/articles/city-of-angles

“I’m driving—AC blasting, terrier panting in the back seat—on the hunt for some recently deployed bus shelters designed by SOM with BMW’s Designworks and Studio One Eleven. The irony is not lost on me.” Mimi Zeiger seeks shelters in LARA no. 2. nyra.nyc/articles/helter-shelter

“For the first time since 2020, when the ‘Sunnyside Master Plan’ flamed out amid the chaos of the early pandemic, the decking of the undeckable is very much back on the national political agenda.” Revisit @aarontimms.bsky.social on Sunnyside Yard in NYRA 41 nyra.nyc/articles/avant-yard

“Upon driving in, each customer is handed a happy face air freshener that looks more like the logo for a matcha shop than a drive-through car wash.” Lina Abascal pulls up to Sun Day Carwash in LARA no. 2. nyra.nyc/articles/sun-day-sudday-sun-day

“Against the not-so-distant backdrop of natural wine bars and bakeries so Insta-famous they regularly sell out by 2:00 p.m., Abrons Arts Center cuts a tough but benevolent figure.” Marianela D’Aprile finds that LES is more at Abrons in NYRA 49. nyra.nyc/articles/most-likely-to-persevere

Extramural Activity | New York Review of Architecture @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social by @aarontimms.bsky.social "Trailing history on the Parisian périph" nyra.nyc/articles/ext...

We’re delighted to share that NYRA has been nominated for a National Magazine Award, presented by the American Society of Magazine Editors! Congratulations to finalists Thomas de Monchaux and @markkrotov.bsky.social! nyra.nyc/asme-nominations

“When Four Freedoms finally opened in 2012, Michael Kimmelman described the park as a ‘monumental triumph for New York’ and its ‘new spiritual heart.’ I can’t say I’ve ever seen what Kimmelman saw.” Justin Beal freestyles on Four Freedoms in NYRA 49. nyra.nyc/articles/cam...

highly rec this @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social story on sunnyside yard nyra.nyc/articles/ava...

“The resulting landscape is a ‘place’ in the way that a ‘bowl’ is now something that you can have for lunch—that is, a container of things standing in for a thing in its own right.” James Andrew Billingsley wags a finger at Wagner Park in NYRA no. 49. nyra.nyc/articles/nat...

“A barista recounted to her coworker an angry customer’s complaint: ‘I was in Korea and your latte wasn’t this color. You don’t have standards across stores?’” Michael Nicholas takes his coffee with a side of eavesdropping in NYRA 49. nyra.nyc/articles/spilled-beans