Since not all drivers (or pedestrians, for that matter) know that diagonal crossing is a thing, it’s really only safer for ...

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E erily quiet on June 13 were most of the thousands of rubble-and-ash sites of burned-out homes in fire-scarred Los Angeles ...

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The cityscape has its own topography: the smallest row houses sit in the foreground, while taller buildings rise behind them like a distant skyline. Color moves through the display like a ...

Every so often, although not often enough, along comes a book that turns the way you look at a topic upside down. Carl Elefante’s Going for Zero: Decarbonizing the Built Environment on the Path to Our ...

The Thomas Jefferson Building of the Library of Congress (LOC) has long been among my favorite buildings in Washington, D.C. Built at a time when only a half-dozen blocks separated squalid tenements ...

For years there has been a loud and often polarizing battle: NIMBYs vs. YIMBYs. But as housing costs soar and climate pressures mount, a new movement might offer a way forward—one that’s not about ...

When architects talk about AI, it triggers me into a Groundhog Day–like reliving of the dire warnings against computer-aided design (CAD) in the 1980s: The field would be decimated, rendered obsolete.

AI is a tool for design, no more, no less. Humans are the creators.

Carl Elefante makes the case for the importance of rehabilitating buildings instead of erecting new ones.