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Went to the Memorial Bridge equestrian sculptures today and it’s not a reflecting pool situation, the work was done by top notch craftspeople from The Gilders’ Studio and you can faintly see the gold leaf squares in the last pic. You can hate the expenditure and aesthetic, but it’s the real deal.

I would never tell my clients a build would be nearly impossible, that’s practically means and methods.

the DC Council should look at how event projections panned for the CareFirst Area (St Elizabeth's) they funded before committing to Audi Field upgrades based on equally delusional projections

a good piece about can designs that signal to buyers "don't worry, I'm not an IPA" (the first canned craft beer, Dale's Pale Ale, was introduced in 2002, is quite hoppy, and strangely has since evolved their can design to feel like more of a mass market lager throwback)

only legal to build like this in Culver City

new GROSS/GREAT up now, going deep on the new LACMA building’s baffling approach to lighting artwork open.substack.com/pub/grossgre...

I feel like this room from Paul Rudolph’s Edersheim Residence (1970) is THE au courant reference in hospitality interiors, at least from what I’m seeing in new work and renderings. Wraparound walls and built-in shelving, a glammy ceiling echoing the seating area below, a narrow warm palette.

the open gangway and higher capacity cars are good changes but I'd vastly prefer the color palette and warmer lighting from the originals, more vibrant by day and more inviting and less clinical by night www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

I've always admired Herzog & de Meuron's ability to work at the top of the field without a signature style and against the grain, heirs to Saarinen in the way they approach each project as a unique set of challenges and solutions www.dezeen.com/2026/06/11/h...

Herzog & de Meuron transforms Titlis Tower into "iconic sculpture"Herzog & de Meuron has transformed the industrial structure of the Titlis Tower in the Swiss Alps into a sculptural tourist destination.www.dezeen.com

an embarrassment of riches

bring back restaurants that just say they have fusion cuisine instead of making up a story about a trade route and cultural exchange that (quite famously!) did not exist between Japan and the Mediterranean

akin to Peter Saville’s 1993 cover for New Order’s Republic

at what point does an interchange qualify as a textile from a woven art perspective

restaurants/bars/nightclubs that opened before 1980 and still feel that way should have a vibes-based exemption from smoking bans

Liz roots out the midwest's most distinctive places like a truffle pig for worn naugahyde booths, and in this piece I spoke with her about the things that give restaurants a soul and the shift from places with regional identity to personal identity

this is entirely too credulous towards the actual parameters of parametricism - it’s an aesthetically driven practice that points to technology as determining the forms while in reality it’s more like rolling dice until they show the outcome you wanted in the first place

real bicentennial 1976 vibe to all these kiosk names

I don’t think I’ve ever seen so many candles in my life as I did during Semana Santa in Seville last month - at their peak during the moments when some plazas and streets would shut off their lights while processions passed

the Kengo Kuma portico at Angers Cathedral is catching a lot of flak but it's no more radical in appearance or function than the baroque loggia of Santa Maria Maggiore, screening but set apart from the romanesque facade www.dezeen.com/2026/04/29/k... www.liturgicalartsjournal.com/2022/02/the-...