SIGLA Studio Designs a Flexible Brick residence in spain SIGLA Studio completes Patio House in Cardedeu, Spain, a single-family home that treats time as material and method. Conceived for a young couple with two children leaving behind a cramped, compartmentalized apartment, the project offers generous light, direct outdoor connection, and the ability for the…
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Irwell Hill Residences rise in singapore Designed in collaboration between MVRDV and local practice ADDP Architects, two residential towers dubbed the Irwell Hill Residences rise above the dense urban weave of Singapore. The project presents a study in how modular construction can carry architectural nuance. The 36-story development, with its pixelated facades, employs prefabricated…
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“Where are our neighbors?” Chalk graffiti scattered across Washington Square posed this haunting question. Just days after a drug raid led to 19 arrests on the park’s west side, the city deployed nearly 70 new police officers to the area. With the local unhoused community now almost entirely displaced, a once vibrant park is now…
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MARC FORNES / THEVERYMANY SHAPES COLOR-GRADIENT CANOPY MARC FORNES / THEVERYMANY unveils Pier 865 in Knoxville’s Cradle of Country Music Park, a walkable sculpture that doubles as public infrastructure. Rising where a concrete pier meets an aluminum canopy, the piece forms a serpent-like structure. Built from hundreds of pre-folded aluminum strips, each painted in…
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a soft and luminous home for relleno barcelona In Barcelona’s Eixample district, interior designer Isern Serra has completed the first flagship store for RELLENO, a Madrid-born filled-pasta brand with a strong digital identity. The project translates the Spanish brand’s concept into architecture through a physical vocabulary of texture and reflective materials. The design…
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“My country, I will build you again, / if need be, with bricks made from my life.” That line from Iranian poet Simin Behbahani rose through the auditorium at the Asia Society Museum on Nov. 9. Members of the diaspora and cultural observers congregated to watch Iranian sister duo Mahsa and Marjan Vahdat’s concert, “Deep…
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Nearing the final week of Zohran Mamdani’s historic campaign for mayor, CAS junior Sebastian Martinez found themselves addressing nearly 13,000 attendees at the mayor-elect’s “NYC is not for sale” rally in Forest Hills Stadium. Headlined by politicians like Bernie Sanders, Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez and Kathy Hochul, the Oct. 26 rally acted as a final push before…
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Celines Miranda was born and raised in the Elliott-Chelsea House on West 26th Street. She lives in an apartment with her elderly mother, who has grown disoriented by her surroundings. But now, Miranda — one of the vice presidents of the Chelsea Tenants Organization — is fighting to save the community that she grew up…
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Roughly 1.7 million New York City residents have felt the effects of losing vital food support since the government shutdown put an unprecedented pause on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. While a federal court ordered a full restoration of SNAP payments, the Supreme Court continues to block them, leaving states scrambling to feed people who…
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It’s been 75 years since the first Mattachine Society meetings, 56 years since the Stonewall Riots and just 10 years since Obergefell v. Hodges legalized gay marriage. It’s also been just one day since the Supreme Court shot down a request to reconsider Obergefell — but for many, the Trump administration’s persistent rollback of LGBTQ+…
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