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3 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Michael Kimmelman

critic's notebookThe $160 million Davis Center, with upgrades to six bucolic acres and a lake, writes a new chapter for the Harlem end of the park. A rendering of the Davis Center in Central Park, with a new oval pool and the restoration of the Loch leading into the lake called the Harlem Meer. Credit... Susan T Rodriguez Architecture & Design critic's notebookThe $160 million Davis Center, with upgrades to six bucolic acres and a lake, writes a new chapter for the Harlem end of the park.

3 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Michael Kimmelman |Todd Heisler

A few years ago, Brotherhood Sister Sol, the West Harlem youth development organization, opened a $22 million headquarters that became a pilgrimage stop for New York design buffs. Its jagged glass facade, along a block of old tenements, resembled an upraised hand, leaning over the sidewalk. "An architectural showpiece," is how I described it back in 2022. I worried then whether the layout was functional.

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Tracy Mumford |Will Jarvis |Ian Stewart |Jessica Metzger |David Enrich |Michael Kimmelman

1 month 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?

1 month 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.