Reviews architecture, in New York. nyra.nychttps://bsky.app/profile/nyreviewofarch.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/nyreviewofarch.bsky.social/post/3mst2d46bdc2rTizziana Baldenebro and @mcmansionhell.bsky.social exchange epistles on the erstwhile East Wing in NYRA no. 50. (link in bio) Want to submit your own letter to the editor? Get in touch at editor@nyra.nyc. https://nyra.nyc/articles/addition-by-subtraction11 Aug 2026 16:36 +0000at://did:plc:zsoxo554lg7zu3se6xeevfea/app.bsky.feed.post/3mst2d46bdc2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/nyreviewofarch.bsky.social/post/3mr5wbta2es23“Stare out onto Coney Island Creek, past the skeletons of the boats beached across the decades, and you will see it: the yellow submarine.” Andy Battle dredges the QUESTER 1 in the NYRA Guide to New York City. https://nyra.nyc/articles/the-nyra-guide-to-new-york-city21 Jul 2026 13:32 +0000at://did:plc:zsoxo554lg7zu3se6xeevfea/app.bsky.feed.post/3mr5wbta2es23https://bsky.app/profile/nyreviewofarch.bsky.social/post/3mqrm6skuls2d“A capsule was less a portal of restorative calm or creative incubator than a convenient pad to sleep off a drunken night on the town, far away from the wife and kids.” Casey Mack encapsulates the Nakagin Capsule Tower in NYRA no. 50. https://nyra.nyc/articles/pod-tier16 Jul 2026 16:00 +0000at://did:plc:zsoxo554lg7zu3se6xeevfea/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqrm6skuls2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/nyreviewofarch.bsky.social/post/3mqpksm7dnk2c“What’s an all-American, all-Soviet building like you doing in a place like this?” Mark Krotov contemplates the Russian Diplomatic Compound in the NYRA Guide to New York City. https://nyra.nyc/articles/the-nyra-guide-to-new-york-city15 Jul 2026 20:30 +0000at://did:plc:zsoxo554lg7zu3se6xeevfea/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqpksm7dnk2chttps://bsky.app/profile/nyreviewofarch.bsky.social/post/3mq5gt3gqas2c“My whole life I dreamed of being an artist; the park allowed me the space to become one.” Dean Majd pops an ollie at Astoria Skate Park in the NYRA Guide to New York City. https://nyra.nyc/articles/the-nyra-guide-to-new-york-city08 Jul 2026 15:31 +0000at://did:plc:zsoxo554lg7zu3se6xeevfea/app.bsky.feed.post/3mq5gt3gqas2chttps://bsky.app/profile/nyreviewofarch.bsky.social/post/3mq3barc56c2u“How is it that where others saw something approaching civil war, Whyte alighted on a market utopia?” Andy Battle answers the whys and wherefores of William H. Whyte’s urbanism in NYRA no. 50. https://nyra.nyc/articles/cause-i-m-mr-whyteside07 Jul 2026 18:46 +0000at://did:plc:zsoxo554lg7zu3se6xeevfea/app.bsky.feed.post/3mq3barc56c2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/nyreviewofarch.bsky.social/post/3mplqknzxfc2vSpotted.01 Jul 2026 14:37 +0000at://did:plc:zsoxo554lg7zu3se6xeevfea/app.bsky.feed.post/3mplqknzxfc2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/nyreviewofarch.bsky.social/post/3mp2jshwmxs27“Picture a cross between an Easter Island head and a guillotine as rendered by a Viennese weapons manufacturer.” Christopher Hawthorne gets lean and Wien in NYRA’s inaugural Guide to New York City. https://nyra.nyc/articles/the-nyra-guide-to-new-york-city24 Jun 2026 18:21 +0000at://did:plc:zsoxo554lg7zu3se6xeevfea/app.bsky.feed.post/3mp2jshwmxs27https://bsky.app/profile/nyreviewofarch.bsky.social/post/3moxm3e5x7s2z“Once in Blighty, many of the pioneering Central European modernists softened the hard-edged stances they previously took.” Ross Wolfe reviews Owen Hatherley’s THE ALIENATION EFFECT in NYRA no. 50. https://nyra.nyc/articles/strangers-in-a-strange-land23 Jun 2026 14:24 +0000at://did:plc:zsoxo554lg7zu3se6xeevfea/app.bsky.feed.post/3moxm3e5x7s2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/nyreviewofarch.bsky.social/post/3mol2fipbk22i“Part of the draw for many fans is that the spaces make them feel superior. I would never live in that tacky monstrosity, they might think—nice marble countertop, though.” lorakelley.bsky.social homes in on chez HOUSEWIVES in NYRA no. 50. https://nyra.nyc/articles/mcmansion-tele18 Jun 2026 14:35 +0000at://did:plc:zsoxo554lg7zu3se6xeevfea/app.bsky.feed.post/3mol2fipbk22ihttps://bsky.app/profile/nyreviewofarch.bsky.social/post/3moiirzv7l22z“THE QUEEN OF VERSAILLES on Broadway has a special way of rankling its audience. It reminds you how your caviar dreams are going—and how dearly you paid for a few hours in that seat.” Travis Diehl assails THE QUEEN OF VERSAILLES on Broadway in NYRA no. 50. https://nyra.nyc/articles/supersize-moi17 Jun 2026 14:15 +0000at://did:plc:zsoxo554lg7zu3se6xeevfea/app.bsky.feed.post/3moiirzv7l22zhttps://bsky.app/profile/nyreviewofarch.bsky.social/post/3mofw45sqak2d“I often call weeds a commons, believing that under capitalism they are what is left for the rest of us.” Jennifer Kabat botanizes on the asphalt in NYRA no. 50. https://nyra.nyc/articles/weed-habit16 Jun 2026 13:35 +0000at://did:plc:zsoxo554lg7zu3se6xeevfea/app.bsky.feed.post/3mofw45sqak2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/nyreviewofarch.bsky.social/post/3mnwrp5fyhk2s“If you come on the right day in early summer, you can see big piles of exuberant horseshoe crabs crawling all over each other in a festival of reproduction.” James Andrew Billingsley day-trips to Ward’s Point in NYRA no. 50. https://nyra.nyc/articles/the-nyra-guide-to-new-york-city10 Jun 2026 13:06 +0000at://did:plc:zsoxo554lg7zu3se6xeevfea/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnwrp5fyhk2shttps://bsky.app/profile/nyreviewofarch.bsky.social/post/3mnuocjzu4k26“The reality is a greenwashed Tatlin’s Tower by way of Tishman Speyer.” Ann Manov endures corporate drudgery and shrubbery in Hudson Yards in NYRA no. 50. https://nyra.nyc/articles/doom-spiral09 Jun 2026 17:00 +0000at://did:plc:zsoxo554lg7zu3se6xeevfea/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnuocjzu4k26https://bsky.app/profile/nyreviewofarch.bsky.social/post/3mnfhfapm622i“If nostalgia for imperialish grandeur and a longing for a suburban lifestyle are two pillars of Victorian Flatbush, the third is exclusivity.” Randle Browning finds rus in urbe in NYRA no. 50. https://nyra.nyc/articles/ditmas-be-the-place03 Jun 2026 15:46 +0000at://did:plc:zsoxo554lg7zu3se6xeevfea/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnfhfapm622ihttps://bsky.app/profile/nyreviewofarch.bsky.social/post/3mmwg6rchtc2y“The Shakers may be the only millenarian Christians in American history who need sinners like you and me to think they’re cool.” Jackson Arn contemplates the work of art in the age of puritanical reproduction in NYRA no. 50. https://nyra.nyc/articles/shaker-chic28 May 2026 16:15 +0000at://did:plc:zsoxo554lg7zu3se6xeevfea/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmwg6rchtc2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/nyreviewofarch.bsky.social/post/3mlt3sqpln22e“Showy and detached and hyperformally expressive buildings cannot be merely coincidental with showy and detached men who believe they have a lot to say.” @monchaux.bsky.social judges David Adjaye’s recent museum projects in NYRA 50. nyra.nyc/articles/debris-of-separation14 May 2026 15:06 +0000at://did:plc:zsoxo554lg7zu3se6xeevfea/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlt3sqpln22ehttps://bsky.app/profile/nyreviewofarch.bsky.social/post/3mlqm6kwdnc2eThank you to all our readers and subscribers for fêting the big 5-0 with us! https://www.instagram.com/p/DYSIE0TEdgp/?img_index=113 May 2026 15:21 +0000at://did:plc:zsoxo554lg7zu3se6xeevfea/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlqm6kwdnc2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/nyreviewofarch.bsky.social/post/3mlnvgqnl5k2s“Who but Wallace Shawn and André Gregory would dare serve up this steaming brew of Sleepytime and manage to make such a riveting night of theater?” Moze Halperin is aflutter over Wallace Shawn’s MOTH DAYS in NYRA 50. nyra.nyc/articles/shawn-of-the-dead12 May 2026 13:29 +0000at://did:plc:zsoxo554lg7zu3se6xeevfea/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlnvgqnl5k2shttps://bsky.app/profile/nyreviewofarch.bsky.social/post/3mle7kahiqk24About last night.08 May 2026 17:03 +0000at://did:plc:zsoxo554lg7zu3se6xeevfea/app.bsky.feed.post/3mle7kahiqk24