The 25 Essential Gardens to See in Your Lifetime

The 25 Essential Gardens to See in Your Lifetime

A garden is an ideal place to spend a sunny afternoon, but would you fly across the world for the pleasure of doing so? Which gardens are worthy of such a journey? To answer that question — and define what makes a garden truly spectacular — we assembled a panel …

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Sub Brings Apocalypse Chic to the Venice Architecture Biennale

Sub Brings Apocalypse Chic to the Venice Architecture Biennale

When Niklas Bildstein Zaar learned that his architecture studio, Sub, had been hired to design the main show at this year’s Venice Architecture Biennale, he knew it was a strange choice. In the past decade, his Berlin-based firm has made a name for itself designing elaborate stage sets, for rappers …

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A Stunning New Pool in Central Park Helps Heal Old Wounds

A Stunning New Pool in Central Park Helps Heal Old Wounds

For more than a century and a half, Central Park has been a leafy barometer of New York’s shifting fortunes. Projecting the city’s vast ambitions and ideals in the 19th century, it morphed into a Hooverville during the Depression, becoming a beehive of ball fields and “Be-Ins” during the 1960s. …

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U.S. Architecture Pavilion Draws Lessons From the American Porch

U.S. Architecture Pavilion Draws Lessons From the American Porch

If there’s one thing Americans can probably agree on, it’s that the nation is divided. So the creators of the United States Pavilion at the International Architecture Biennale in Venice, which opens to the public on May 10, are prompting visitors to think about the role that architecture and design …

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The Architecture You Need to See in Milan

The Architecture You Need to See in Milan

Milan is among Italy’s largest and most influential cities: Founded in 590 B.C., it eventually became the capital of the Lombardy region. Yet for centuries, it was somewhat overlooked as a cultural hub; while Rome, Florence and Venice were widely viewed as Italy’s seats of intellectual and artistic production, Milan …

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The Architecture You Need to See in Helsinki

The Architecture You Need to See in Helsinki

Centered on a blossom-shaped peninsula, Helsinki is as cool and calm as the slate-gray waters that surround it. For centuries, the city, like the rest of present-day Finland, was under foreign rule, first as a provincial outpost of the Swedish Empire and then as the capital of a Grand Duchy …

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The Frick Glows With a Poetic, $220 Million Renovation

The Frick Glows With a Poetic, 0 Million Renovation

A corner of New York hasn’t seemed quite itself since the Frick Collection shuttered during Covid for the architectural equivalent of a full-body spa treatment. For a while the museum that luxuriates in Henry Clay Frick’s Beaux-Arts mansion on Fifth Avenue decamped with its old masters and other art to …

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