Medellín, Colombia, once famed for murder and cocaine, is now drawing notice for its ambitious urban projects, many aimed at easing life in the city’s slums.

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Architecture Review: Fighting Crime With Architecture in Medellín, Colombia

The Brooklyn Botanic Garden will unveil a new visitor center and gateway at the northeast corner of the garden next Wednesday.

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Architecture Review: A New Visitor Center at Brooklyn Botanic Garden

With the colorful Marlins Park in Miami, baseball breaks from the now-familiar retro style into the 21st century.

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Architecture Review: Marlins Park in Miami, Baseball’s Newest Stadium

A Brutalist building faces demolition in Goshen, N.Y., raising questions about the future of unfashionably Modern midcentury structures.

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Unloved Building in Goshen, N.Y., Prompts Debate on Modernism

Remedying the calamity that is Penn Station by moving Madison Square Garden to the Javits Center site is a way to bring back light and airy glory to New York’s transportation hub.

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Architecture: A Proposal for Penn Station and Madison Square Garden

A planned memorial to Dwight D. Eisenhower, with Frank Gehry as the architect, has raised hackles within the Eisenhower family.

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Eisenhower Family Raises Objections to Planned Memorial

Penn South, a housing development in Chelsea, and the ill-fated Pruitt-Igoe project in St. Louis shared a type of housing stock but little else.

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Critic’s Notebook: Penn South and Pruitt-Igoe, Starkly Different Housing Tales

Charles Pierrepont Henry Gilbert’s town houses came to define the upper-class residence. But as a young man, he designed some flamboyant, urban dwellings in Brooklyn.

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Streetscapes | Brooklyn: Brooklyn/Streetscapes – C. P. H. Gilbert: The Wild Years

We need to take parking lots more seriously, architecturally, and to think of them as public spaces, as part of the infrastructure of our streets and sidewalks.

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Arts & Leisure: Taking Parking Lots Seriously, as Public Spaces

All but the last remnant of the Arab neighborhood known as Little Syria is about to disappear from Lower Manhattan. But several young advocates are determined to save what they can.

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City Room: Trying to Save Remnants of Arab Life in Lower Manhattan

After more than a decade in which San Francisco politics was partly defined by antidevelopment and historic preservation forces, a backlash has begun.

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The Bay Citizen: An Unlikely Group Rebels Against Preservation Districts

Alexander Garvin, an architect and urban planner, has spent the better part of the last half-century thinking about New York City’s public spaces.

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Arts & Leisure: Alexander Garvin Looks at Public Spaces in New York

As Russia’s elite took part in the Bolshoi Theater’s opening gala, hundreds waited outside on a cold, miserable night for a glimpse of “Swan Lake” on two large screens.

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Joy and Nostalgia in Moscow as Bolshoi Theater Reopens

Apple’s free-standing stores, many with soaring glass entrances and staircases, are a testament to the design notions of Steve Jobs.

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Steve Jobs, a Genius of Store Design, Too

Everyone agreed that St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church would rise again. But it took 10 years to agree on exactly where and how.

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City Room: Smaller St. Nicholas Is Not Expected to Interfere With World Trade Center Development