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Inside MAD’s Lucas Museum of Narrative Art

The long-awaited project highlights uncomfortable truths about Los Angeles’s cultural sector and civic health.

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MAD Architects’ FENIX is the World’s First Art Museum Dedicated to Migration

Located in Rotterdam, FENIX is also the Beijing-based firm's first European museum project.

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One River North is Denver’s New Nod to Biophilia

MAD Architects inserted a four-story canyon of landscaped terraces into a slick mixed-use development.

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Studio Gang Reimagines the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts

A dramatic renovation resolves the arts institution’s disjointed layout and missed connections to the city of Little Rock.

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The Richard Gilder Center Opens at the American Museum of Natural History

Designed by Studio Gang, the museum’s newest wing aims to awe visitors by mimicking natural wonders, but its geomorphic design falls flat.

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Only If Architecture Designs a New Look for Brooklyn Infill

The Bedford Stuyvesant home makes the most of its narrow floor plate with clever, contemporary solutions.

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The Largest Art Museum in Norway Is Now Open

Designed by Kleihues + Schuwerk Architects, the National Museum of Art, Architecture, and Design opened this month after eight years in the making.

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Columbia’s New Business School Favors Context and Well-Being Over Ostentation

Breaking the mold, Diller Scofidio + Renfro and FXCollaborative complete a future-proof complex within Columbia University’s new Manhattanville Campus.

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A Global Hub for Inuit Art Avoids Aesthetic Literalism

Michael Maltzan's design for Qaumajuq, the Inuit art center at the Winnipeg Art Gallery, was informed by a research trip to the far north.

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This 125-year-old Swedish Town Has Relocated, Buildings and All

Kiruna Forever, an exhibition at ArkDes, traces the town's relocation due to geological instability.

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Yale School of Architecture’s “Two Sides of the Border” Reimagines the U.S-Mexico Border

The Tatiana Bilbao–organized show uses student work, Iwan Baan photography, and maps to present multitudinous—though sometimes blurry—visions for the contentious region.

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Parrish Art Museum Exhibition Explores How Photographers Manipulate and Portray Architecture

Image Building: How Photography Transforms Architecture features famous photographers past and present, from Ezra Stoller and Berenice Abbott, to Iwan Baan and Andreas Gursky.

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Iwan Baan Photographs MAD Architects–Designed Chaoyang Park Plaza

The project's architecture takes cues from traditional Chinese Shan shui paintings, with its office towers' inky, undulating exterior evoking the genre's dramatic mountain peaks.

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Book Review: The SANAA Studios

Architecture-school crits are a famously bruising rite of passage for aspiring design professionals—unless, apparently, your professor is from the renowned Japanese firm SANAA. In the introduction to The SANAA Studios