New York Review of Architecture

Introducing NYRA no. 45. On the cover, Sean Suchara reinterprets Piranesi’s frontispiece of “Le Antichità Romane,” creating a fantastical New York populated by landmarks present, imagined, and long past. Subscribe and get NYRA no. 45 on your doorstep. nyra.nyc/subscribe

Hitch a ride to Rockaway Beach—or, better yet, to its modular bathrooms. We’re revisiting @ChristRobbins’s 2023 paean to Rockaway’s futuristic public restrooms in honor of beach season. nyra.nyc/articles/new-y…

Bonne fête nationale! This Bastille Day, we’re revisiting @harrstetler’s 2024 review of “Paris Is Not Dead” by Cole Stanger, exploring gentrification in the city of lights. nyra.nyc/articles/we-ll…

We’re throwing a party and it’s going to be a hot one! Cool off and celebrate our fresh double issue, no. 46/47, in the comfort of a Fort Greene beer garden on Wednesday, July 30. RSVP at nyra.nyc/rsvp

We have an announcement: Olivia Oldham is NYRA's inaugural Editorial Fellow.

NYRA’s taking the week off! In the meantime, our paywall will be lifted for all articles—you just have to register on our website. While we are out, please refrain from ending congestion pricing, making paeans to genius, or feeding the rats. We’ll see you on July 7.

New York’s public pools open today! In honor of the delights of cold, chlorinated water, we're revisiting a question posed by Karolina Czeczek, @kemper_nicolas, and @a_l_hu in NYRA no. 21: “Why does New York no longer build public pools?” nyra.nyc/articles/why-d…

“Rudolph’s decline and fall is usually depicted, in self-soothing American Puritan allegory, as a kind of rake’s progress ending in dissipation and chastened old age.” @monchaux recuperates @PaulRudolphInst at @metmuseum in NYRA no. 45. nyra.nyc/articles/the-b…

One of our astute readers gently corrects a fluvial error in NYRA no. 45 LETTERS page. Want to submit your own letter to the editor? Get in touch at [email protected]. nyra.nyc/articles/squab…

“Rudolph’s self-conscious structuralism somehow still registers as an underrated trick.” @markkrotov reviews @PaulRudolphInst at the @metmuseum in NYRA no. 45. nyra.nyc/articles/megal…

Ben Barsotti Scott responds to James Andrew Billingsley’s “takedown of the cynical-yet-vibeless vanity project that is Little Island” in NYRA no. 45. nyra.nyc/articles/lawnf…

“The ongoing futility of the campaign to eliminate them raises an important question: Do we even want to live without rats?” Aaron Timms gnaws on New York City's rat control policy in NYRA no. 45. nyra.nyc/articles/rat-s…

“It feels like a home. Specifically, Graydon Carter’s home.” @kemper_nicolas drops in on the @AirMailWeekly office in NYRA no. 45. nyra.nyc/articles/34-we…

“It’s no surprise that daddy Duffy lacks the same zeal for mass transit as his predecessor, Mayor Pete, who, as a gay guy, has a genetic predisposition to enjoy cruising on the subway.” @ericschmerick is congestion-curious in NYRA no. 45. nyra.nyc/articles/sudaf…

“The interiors prioritize an atmospheric peekaboo that hints at the intimacy of the gaze, letting you look without giving yourself away.” Whitney Mallett (@whitneymallett) tries @skims on for size in NYRA no. 45. nyra.nyc/articles/skim-…

“New York, Hatherley argues, has been in the grips of a hidebound dogma for roughly the past sixty years.” Samuel Stein reviews Owen Hatherley's “Walking the Streets/Walking the Projects,” out from @RepeaterBooks, in NYRA no. 45. nyra.nyc/articles/moder…

“‘Planners,’ possessed of a seemingly occult power, cast their ‘hex signs’ and zap—the city is ruined, drained of ‘vitality,’ a Jacobsian shibboleth that you can, it seems, feel but never define.” Andy Battle battles Jane Jacobs in NYRA no. 45. nyra.nyc/articles/where…

“The fair did not, in fact, beget peace through understanding.” Leah Mandel (@leah_mandel) visits “A Billion Dollar Dream,” a critical retrospective of 1964–65 New York World’s Fair at the @QueensMuseum, in NYRA no. 45. nyra.nyc/articles/a-fai…

“Touloumi’s examination of the United Nation’s meticulously designed spaces offers an unintended material history of internationalism’s hollow performance.” @enriqueramirez reviews Olga Touloumi’s “Assembly by Design” (@UMinnPress) in NYRA no. 45. nyra.nyc/articles/phant…

“The overall effect is a copy-paste job of the undead Instagram aesthetic: flaxen faux bois for days, bowdlerized MCM, an abundance of beige, a fiddle-leaf fig." Sophie Van Well Groeneveld at the Capitol One Café in NYRA no. 45. nyra.nyc/articles/that-…

“The interior is essentially untouched, as if some jealous god were appeased by a little sacrifice.” @n_j_dames reviews the renovated Hungarian Pastry Shop in NYRA no. 45. nyra.nyc/articles/dobos…