Michael Kimmelman

Los Angeles, New York

Architecture Critic at The New York Times

Architecture critic, Headway founder and editor-at-large, The New York Times. Author, most recently, of “The Intimate City” (Penguin Press)

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Articles

The Worst Stock Market Drop in Years, and Dr. Oz's New Government Job

2 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Tracy Mumford |Will Jarvis |Ian Stewart |Jessica Metzger |David Enrich |Michael Kimmelman
Brightline Brought High-Speed Rail to Florida. Can the Public Sector Follow?

3 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Michael Kimmelman

headwayIn Florida, Brightline has proved that it can operate reliable, well-designed passenger trains that people want to ride. Can the public sector do the same? Brightline's airy, comfortable stations and roomy, tech-friendly cars were designed by the Rockwell Group. headwayIn Florida, Brightline has proved that it can operate reliable, well-designed passenger trains that people want to ride. Can the public sector do the same?
Soon you can once again enjoy the Gilded Age splendor of The Frick Collection in NYC

4 weeks ago | post-gazette.com | Michael Kimmelman

NEW YORK -- A corner of New York City hasn't seemed quite itself since The Frick Collection shuttered during COVID-19 for the architectural equivalent of a full-body spa treatment. For a while, the museum that luxuriates in Henry Clay Frick's Beaux-Arts mansion on Fifth Avenue decamped with its old masters and other art to Marcel Breuer's former Whitney Museum a few blocks away.
The Frick Glows With a Poetic, $220 Million Renovation

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Michael Kimmelman |Lila Barth

A corner of New York hasn't seemed quite itself since the Frick Collection shuttered during Covid for the architectural equivalent of a full-body spa treatment. For a while the museum that luxuriates in Henry Clay Frick's Beaux-Arts mansion on Fifth Avenue decamped with its old masters and other art to Marcel Breuer's former Whitney Museum a few blocks away.
What Kind of Los Angeles Will Rise From the Fires?

2 months ago | nytimes.com | Michael Kimmelman

Will a different city emerge from the Los Angeles fires? Time and again fires have fast-tracked urban change. London after the Great Fire of 1666 rewrote its safety laws, widened streets and erected new public buildings, like the domed St. Paul's Cathedral. Chicago after the Great Fire of 1871, which decimated downtown, invented the modern American metropolis with newfangled steel-frame skyscrapers.
Notre-Dame Reopens in Paris After a Fire. It’s Astonishing.

Dec 5, 2024 | entertainment-mag.com | Mika Gröndahl |Michael Kimmelman

Benoist de Sinety, former vicar general of Paris, was on his scooter that April evening in 2019, driving across the Pont Neuf toward the Left Bank when he spotted flames in his rearview mirror billowing from under the eaves of Notre-Dame. He cursed, made a U-turn and sped toward the cathedral. Mary Queen of Scots was married at Notre-Dame, Joan of Arc beatified, Napoleon crowned.
Inside the Faithful Restoration of Notre Dame

Dec 5, 2024 | businessandamerica.com | Michael Kimmelman |Christina Shaman |Laura Salaberry

After Notre Dame caught fire in 2019, France’s president, Emmanuel Macron, promised to reopen the cathedral in five years. The timeline seemed a Hail Mary. Yet here we are. Michael Kimmelman, architecture critic for The New York Times, brings us a behind-the-scenes look at the faithful restoration of Notre Dame, which opens to the public on Dec. 8. Source link
Inside the Faithful Restoration of Notre Dame

Dec 5, 2024 | nytimes.com | Michael Kimmelman |Christina Shaman |Laura Salaberry
Notre Dame Has an Astonishing Reopening in Paris After the Fire. - The New York Times

Dec 5, 2024 | nytimes.com | Michael Kimmelman |Mika Gröndahl

Five years after a fire nearly felled the cathedral that has dazzled visitors for almost 900 years, the heart of Paris beats anew.
'Intangible Heritage' and How Cities Decide What to Preserve

Nov 30, 2024 | nytimes.com | Michael Kimmelman

In April 1969, two months before police officers raided a gay bar on Christopher Street in Greenwich Village called the Stonewall Inn, New York City's Landmarks Preservation Commission designated the Village a historic district thanks to its rowhouses and spaghetti entanglement of streets, the serendipity of Colonial-era cattle paths and property lines colliding with the city grid. Stonewall occupied a pair of former horse stables.