Jack Murphy

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A public conversation about housing in New York renews discussion of problematic windowless bedrooms

A week ago, New York City mayor Eric Adams participated in a live conversation at The Greene Space about the future of...

Forty-two finalists announced for Come Home, a housing ideas competition in Chicago

Design competitions are a funny exercise: Invite architects to produce thoughtful and visually interesting drawings without compensation, convene a jury to decide...

After Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, a network of women architects studies abortion using the tools of architecture

Abortion in the U.S. has a significant spatial component. Let’s start with the obvious: Abortions, both surgical and medical, have historically happened...

REX’s Perelman Performing Arts Center set to open in September

REX’s Ronald O. Perelman Performing Arts Center is scheduled to open in September. The effort, nearly 20 years in the making, will...

Kenzo Tange’s Kagawa Prefectural Gymnasium to be demolished due to high cost of repairs

In February, it was announced that Kenzo Tange’s Kagawa Prefectural Gymnasium in Takamatsu, Japan, will be demolished. Tange designed the structure in 1964....

Why is there a shrunken replica of a 2,000-year-old Roman temple on West 51st Street?

At the start of a new year, I always find myself looking to re-orient perspective toward the near future. It’s not about...

Steven Holl Architects realizes materially rich Rubenstein Commons for the Institute for Advanced Study

Each morning, like clockwork, Albert Einstein and Kurt Gödel walked from the town of Princeton, New Jersey, to their offices at the...

A case of mistaken identity leads artist Jamie Diamond to commission conceptual bank designs for sites in New Mexico

In March 2015, Jamie Diamond, a photo-based artist, received an email from one Richard “Dick” Stanley. Mistaking Diamond for Jamie Dimon, the...

Facing flat prospects for 2023, Vornado holds off on Penn District plan—for now

On a recent company conference call, real estate developer Vornado confirmed it is pausing its plan to redevelop the blocks surrounding Penn...

Head Hi is a Brooklyn destination for design publications, beverages, and cultural programming

After nearly a decade without one, does New York City finally have a bookstore dedicated to architecture and design? At a recent...

Controversy continues surrounding Cooper Union’s postponement of student exhibition about Soviet design school Vkhutemas

Commentary continues to proliferate in the architecture community after Cooper Union’s last-minute decision to postpone the exhibition Vkhutemas: Laboratory of the Avant-Garde,...

A multimedia exhibit in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, reveals more details about NEOM’s linear city

The Line ExperienceDiriyah Biennale Foundation7120 Muhammad Ibn Rashid Al UrainiAl Diriyah Al Jadidah, 2598Riyadh 13732Saudi ArabiaOpen through April 29 By now we’ve...

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