$200M Trump Ballroom Proposal Looks a Lot Like Versailles

The apocryphal “let them eat cake” legend has never been more fitting … (screenshot Maya Pontone/Hyperallergic via @Pleightx on X) President Trump has proposed a $200 million state ballroom off the White House’s East Wing, the newest addition to his...

Bidding Adieu to Art Deco’s Democratic Dream

For sale: a 1,046-foot-tall, 77-story building with a footprint of 1,196,958 square feet, constructed in a steel frame and adorned in gray and white brick with reinforced steel accents, constructed 95 years ago. Located at 42nd and Lexington Avenue in New York City,...

The Woman Behind the Iconic Glass House

The history of photography has made it clear that the camera is a subjective tool. The glass lens frames the story differently depending on who is doing the looking, and how. So what are we to make of the images of a woman in a glass house, the history of which has...

The Architecture of the Wire: Infrastructures of Telecommunication

The Architecture of the Wire: Infrastructures of Telecommunication, by art and architectural historian Carlotta Darò. She is Associate Professor at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture Paris-Malaquais and currently a guest senior researcher at ETH Zurich....