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April 2017 / Some architects are eager to collaborate with the Trump administration to build that wall; architects must demonstrate leadership on the environment (for one thing “It’s time to end our collective passion for all-glass buildings.”); Detroit and the damage done/undone; a cast concrete museum in China clad in a “bricolage of recycled brick, tile and stone” (Amateur Architecture Studio); the new Lascaux Museum (Snohetta) where visitors encounter a replica of the famous caves, down to the temperature and humidity; design in the public realm.

March 2017 Civic Buildings / The editor-in-chief notices something is a little off with the Architizer A+ awards; TWBT & DBB’s Mexican Embassy Compound and DBB’s Indonesian; a cloud-like structure contains meeting rooms in Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas’ convention center in Rome; a very nice use of oak millwork among other very traditional justice-y materials in an LA courthouse by SOM.

February 2017 / Reno Resto Adapt issue; some interesting ads; the architect is often anonymous to the public especially on RRA jobs; various lovely projects around the world turning train sheds into art centers and little flatiron office buildings into hotels; a CEU on masonry construction, all hail the humble brick; Calacatta and Carrara marble burn the retina and empty the soul in the new Bernhardt showroom (Rottet Studio/One Lux Studio) and 575 5th lobby (HOK/Available Light).

Barneys New York, Downtown, located in Chelsea, Manhattan, has been receiving a good amount of attention since it’s opening in February, including this article in Architectural Record’s online and print April issue.

Said of the store’s spiraling feature staircase: “A self-supporting steel undercarriage, covered in fiberglass and then plastered, forms the curves of the suspended stairwell. A sculpted alcove with recessed lighting along its sinuous run defines the handrails. Stair treads and risers are sheathed in white marble.” And, “Equally important, however, is the sense of spectacle about the stair – a stylish vehicle for seeing and being seen.”