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Here is Part III in our 7-part series on architectural renaissance-ready American cities.  Previous entries: Buffalo, New York and Detroit, Michigan.
It would be easy to discuss the city of New Orleans without reference to its history prior to 2005; after all, it’s streets were so thoroughly soaked from just three days of water, wind, and [...]

When Buffalo made the cut as one of seven cities that are primed for an architectural renaissance, it was understood that isolated instances of demolition would inevitably play a role in its rebirth.  Abandoned homes, obsolete institutional and commercial buildings, that sort of thing.  But it was not anticipated that rebirth would happen due to addition by subtraction [...]

Here is Part II in our 7-part series on architectural renaissance-ready American cities.  Our last entry: Buffalo, New York.
Reputations, good and bad, tend to lag reality.  Except in Detroit.  For years, Detroit was like Buffalo, which I wrote about last week; its bad reputation fit the reality on the ground, due to abandoned homes, crumbling towers, and [...]

Much reflection has been devoted to the passing of the aughts (2000-2009) and that period’s impact on architecture - including the requisite lists of the decade’s best/worst buildings.  An unfortunate tendency of such musings is to view projects, be they new residential towers or neighborhood parks, as discrete islands of accomplishment (or infamy).
Of course, the reality is [...]