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

In a shift, dozens of new and refurbished libraries, firehouses, police precincts and museums have been designed by gifted architects.

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New York’s Public Architecture Gets a Face-Lift

For the Swiss architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron, the restoration of the Park Avenue Armory is a delicate process of excavation.

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Park Avenue Armory to Get Swiss Makeover

The reflective towers of New York City, which is on the Atlantic migratory flyway, can be deadly for birds. An estimated 90,000 birds are killed by flying into buildings in the city each year.

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Making New York’s Glass Buildings Safer for Birds

THE CONSTITUTIONALITY of the new health-care law — specifically, the constitutionality of the requirement that every individual obtain health insurance or pay a fine — is now squarely teed up for the Supreme Court. One federal appeals court, the Cleveland-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit, has upheld the individual mandate by a 2 to 1 majority. On Friday, another, the 11th Circuit based in Atlanta, found the mandate unconstitutional , again splitting 2 to 1. The issue is also before the 4th Circuit in Richmond and the federal appeals court in the District. The mandate does not take effect until 2014. But given the central importance of the individual mandate to the architecture of the health-care law, the sooner the Supreme Court finally decides the matter, the better. Read full article > >

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Health care and the Constitution