At the Fashion Week menswear shows, every day is opposite day. The assembled parts of each outfit are arranged in some elaborate conflict. Oxymoron rules. Antonyms are needed. “Classic but modern” is the usual pairing, a phrase heard from such epic interpreters of American progress as Ralph Lauren or Tom Wolfe or the architect Robert A.M. Stern. Read full article > >

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Menswear at Fashion Week: A bundle of contradictions

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

Francisco Sandaza is the architect as Cillian Sheridan’s double gives St Johnstone a deserved win over disappointing Hearts.

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St Johnstone 2-0 Hearts

An exhibition at Yale considers the Modernist work of the architect Kevin Roche.

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Critic’s Notebook: Turning a Rearview Mirror on Kevin Roche

Ahmet Davutoglu, the tireless, talkative foreign minister, is the architect of a foreign policy designed to (peacefully) restore his country to greatness. But whose side is he really on?

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Turkey’s Rules

In 1897, when the Territory of Arizona was seeking to demonstrate its fitness for statehood, the legislature solicited bids to design a new capitol building and grounds in Phoenix. The winning entry was that of James Riely Gordon, the architect behind a number of well-regarded public buildings in Texas and Maryland. He drew up ambitious plans: an expansive dome, a grand rotunda, stately wings for each house. But funding fell short, and so the legislative wings were scrapped, and a diminutive lead-alloy top was chosen in lieu of Gordon’s more elaborate dome. Worse, in the building’s interior, a mosaic of the state seal was bungled by the contractor, who forgot to include the images of cattle and citrus, two of Arizona’s “five C’s” (the others being climate, copper, and cotton). . . .

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For the future of G.O.P. governance, look to Arizona