I only have two, and ahhhh clearly only use one of them lmao but I’ve been using the @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social one any day I leave my apartment now!

“These objects preserve the social-democratic spirit that remained flat-packed, stateside, until Mamdani finally found an Allen wrench.” Eric Schwartau finds his Allen wrench in NYRA 49. nyra.nyc/articles/sca...

“We may yet find our way to a world where we can hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, and make playlists after dinner, just as Marx had in mind.” Nick Murray reviews MOOD MACHINE by @lizpelly.bsky.social in NYRA 49. nyra.nyc/articles/bad...

“We glimpse the ancient dream of perfect mastery over nature’s most violent expressions—catastrophe without casualty, terror without trauma.” Enrique Ramirez reviews Jennifer Kabat’s NIGHTSHINING in NYRA 49. nyra.nyc/articles/mak...

“The Villa produces a central effect of the Gothic form itself: It makes a carefully wrought ‘elsewhere’ of alluring and unsettling mysteries feel achingly present, if only in imagination.” Anna Ballan goes the full Brontë in NYRA 49. nyra.nyc/articles/jan...

While downed by a cold, I had the pleasure of reading the latest issue of @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social, in which Anna Ballan shares the good news of three sister apartment buildings in the Bronx, including the Villa Victoria, 2475 Palisade Ave. (📷realtor sites) nyra.nyc/articles/jan...

“The sculptures shimmer between plane and volume in a kind of dimensional dishabille, plotting ornament’s revenge upon Minimalism.” Zack Hatfield tries on Diane Simpson’s FORMAL WEAR at the American Academy of Arts and Letters in NYRA no. 49. nyra.nyc/articles/ste...

Subscribing to a newspaper and/or visiting websites and subscribing to podcasts with podcast apps is a big help in the world rn

“Cluster by cluster, the homes change—ranchettes for horse lovers, condominiums for snowbirds—while retaining the overarching, unmistakable homogeneity of mass construction with dimensional lumber.” @ce_tracey soaks up Sun City in LARA no. 2. nyra.nyc/articles/rai...

“Looking to private developers to undo nearly a century of car-centric urban planning in American cities, one small development at a time, is by definition a Sisyphean task. This is a job instead for broad-based public policy to take on.” @hawthorne.bsky.social on Culdesac

banger hed

"A novel about the ennui of curated living bound for the meticulously curated bookshelves of the same cosmopolitan professionals it scrutinizes, Perfection offers no escape from the perfectly reflexive trap it lays for its readers."

"Latronico’s prose strips the deluginous images on our screens of their sticky allure, making them appear brittle and dry—an austere triumph of the written word." Niuniu Zhao picks up vincenzo.bsky.social’s PERFECTION (@nyrb-imprints.bsky.social) in NYRA no. 49. nyra.nyc/articles/hel...le

“Candela’s buildings have been transformed from mere luxury apartments into wholly unrepeatable works of art.” Marco Roth waxes on Rosario Candela in NYRA no. 49. nyra.nyc/articles/thi...

WHICH KIND OF CHÂTEAU RENOVATION is me? Rock star? Relic thief? Australian? In the châteauverse, the logic of a 2010s Buzzfeed quiz is projected onto medieval parcels. @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social nyra.nyc/articles/gro...

At the Harper’s office, each intern is given a cardinal direction, reflected in their email address (i.e., [email protected]) and then a desk that is—for reasons nobody could explain—oriented opposite their direction. @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social nyra.nyc/articles/666...

That's us!

“For a review of books, not bricks, the Los Angeles Review of Books has demonstrated excellent taste in architecture.” ntok.bsky.social visits lareviewofbooks.bsky.social in LARA no. 2. nyra.nyc/articles/los...

I received my first issue of New York Review of Architecture @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social. Excited and subscribed.

“Sometimes Old Left ideas don’t feel so old.” Nick Irvin reads Ben Shahn against the grain in NYRA no. 49. nyra.nyc/articles/the...

“A lapsed master reduced to a pest smarming around Sardi’s in 1943, Larry lives, but only in the narrow space between his professional expiration and his bibulous demise only months later.” Moze Halperin reviews Linklater's BLUE MOON in NYRA no. 49. nyra.nyc/articles/sar...

“That Starbucks, its counter like all good temple altars facing east, was the great backstop to the playing fields of downtown.” Thomas de Monchaux has a brewed awakening on Astor Place in NYRA no. 49. nyra.nyc/articles/com...

Our winter issue is here! nyra.nyc

Some personal memories of CSH#16 emerge after reading this very good article by @enriqueramirez.bsky.social in @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social. Los Angeles as a whole, all the CSH, and even that old Lexus...

One of the most interesting pieces about "civic" architecture I've read recently: @hawthorne.bsky.social in @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social on LA, its past and recent history and its possible future. Postcard from the Edge: nyra.nyc/articles/pos...

Our symposium on the print magazine in the 21st century features Graydon Carter, Ian Hislop, Jo Ellison and more, and is perhaps the boldest thing we've ever run: do have a read here. www.the-fence.com/rumours-of-o...

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imagine if our planning provided for density that was both quiet, and dark sky compliant it's not hard. and it's a massive improvement of our status quo.

my first boss as a planner turned me into a dark sky fanatic. lighting is probably one of those things that seems annoying and excessive in zoning codes but it's so important. yimby as long as it's darksky approved cut off fixtures

This was one of the best essays I read this year

Statistically, you're likely to have already come across our top read essays of 2025, but just in case you haven't....

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this review of two Kirstin Ross books (The Commune Form / The Politics and Poetics of Everyday Life) for the @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social nyra.nyc/articles/to-...

We're proud to announce Issue Five has dropped! Subscribers, expect it in your mailboxes soon. Leading us off is @mcmansionhell.bsky.social's dispatch from the Venice Biennale -- a definitive critique of the architectural non-future our rulers have in store. strangematters.coop/kate-wagner-...

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It does matter! You need to build a world before you can advocate for it! You have to ask what that world would look like and sometimes that means literally. What is your answer to nostalgia bait and slop? Why is only one side allowed to make images?

“The right has a cultural answer to the disintegration of the economic and social order. Trump’s ballroom is an expression of that.” The most interesting, compelling, provocative piece on Trump’s ballroom by far, by @katewagner.wehwalt.net nyra.nyc/articles/wre...

when your hammer makes solid contact with your chisel, and the chisel with the stone, there’s a wonderful feeling of force being transmitted from one to the other and of the potential for that force to change things and this right here is it

everyone loves architecture criticism until it’s time to actually challenge anything

I just need to pause again to say WRECKING BALLROOM

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“Trader Vic’s was far from real Polynesian food, and it trafficked in stereotypes that betrayed what it actually was: a tacky chain restaurant.” Claudia Ross reminisces about Los Angeles’s bygone “international” eateries in LARA no. 2 nyra.nyc/articles/koo...

genuinely stupendous stuff, here. the willingness to destroy something is a gotdamn politics

I think this piece is valuable in that it forces to name what exactly our alternative vision (aesthetic and political) to Trumpism really is. There’s an unstated assumption On Here that we can somehow make it politically 2012 again, which is impossible. What do we want our new world to look like?

Hard agree with Kate, the whole tack of trying to appeal to the public by indignantly going "Trump is not being respectful of our normal government stuff!!!!" feeds directly into the rebel-in-chief delusion that got him elected in the first place.