Feature / Special StoryThe Lucas Museum Turns an Asphalt Lot Into a Civic Landscape
In Los Angeles, Ma Yansong’s museum and Mia Lehrer’s park replace a field of asphalt with a new public landscape for visual storytelling.
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Special Story
Long-form reporting and visual essays developed with greater depth and context.
18 stories in the seriesSpecial Story is reserved for subjects that need room: cultural investigations, visual essays and reported narratives in which architecture, art and material history connect to a larger question.
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Feature / Special StoryTaryn Simon Turns the Guggenheim Into a Chain of Evidence
Father Country I Do Love You follows one unnamed federal agent through 42 works—and asks what a life becomes when every trace can be classified.
Feature / Special StoryAperture Gives Photography a Permanent Room in New York
The nonprofit publisher’s Upper West Side home makes the work behind books, exhibitions and photographic culture visible from the street.
Feature / Special Story730 Stanyan Makes Affordable Housing Hold the Corner
OMA and Y.A. Studio turn a long-contested San Francisco site into 160 deeply affordable homes—and make the ground floor answer to the neighborhood.
Feature / Special StoryGrace Weir Brings the Cosmos Back to the Dining Table
At the Herschel Museum in Bath, a contemporary artist places astronomy inside the domestic rooms where observation became discovery.
Feature / Special StoryKoyo Kouoh’s In Minor Keys Teaches the Biennale to Listen
Completed by the team she selected, the 2026 Venice Biennale carries Koyo Kouoh’s relational curatorial method across 110 participants and many geographies.
Feature / Special StoryOriginality Is Becoming Distribution Infrastructure
As search and social platforms prioritize primary, useful material, a design studio’s project archive is becoming both its evidence and its route to discovery.
Feature / Special StoryThe Living Compositions of Lauren Williams
From a blank wall in her Dallas home to architectural installations collected around the world, Lauren Williams has spent more than fifteen years transforming fiber, light and movement into a distinctly living form of art.
Feature / Special StoryA Library That Disappears Into the Badlands
Snøhetta’s new Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library begins with a radical premise: the landscape is not the setting for the architecture. It is the architecture.
Feature / Special StoryThe Architecture Hidden Inside a Cup of Tea
A four-day exhibition in Munich followed tea from West Java to German tables, revealing the plantations, ports, warehouses and images concealed inside an everyday ritual.
Feature / Special StoryLee Miller Was Never Only the Muse
A major Paris retrospective brings Lee Miller back into view as the author of her own images: a surrealist experimenter, fashion photographer and war correspondent whose work refused a single identity.
Feature / Special StoryThe Department Store That Learned to Slow Down
Six Senses London transforms the former Whiteleys emporium into a hotel, spa and social club where preservation, wellness and urban hospitality are designed as one continuous experience.
Feature / Special StoryThe Office Building That Became a Place to Live
The Source on South Temple combines a preserved midcentury IBM building with new housing, testing how adaptive reuse can turn architectural memory into everyday value.
Feature / Special StoryTomás Saraceno Turns a Museum Into a Living System
At Haus der Kunst, air, spiders, water and Indigenous knowledge reorganize the museum as a network of human and more-than-human relationships.
Feature / Special StoryThe Airport Hotel That Became a Base Camp for Japan
A reworked hotel beside Haneda Airport replaces the anonymous stopover with local movement, music and a deliberate invitation to begin exploring.
Feature / Special StoryA 1940 Polanco Landmark Checks In Again
Kimpton El Castelar converts a historic Mexico City apartment building into a 34-room hotel where preservation is measured in atmosphere, not imitation.
Feature / Special StoryArles 2026 Makes Photography Answer to the Present
The festival’s 57th edition turns archives, data streams and contested histories into a city-wide argument about what images do now.
Feature / Special StoryA Manhattan Parking Lot Becomes 1,127 Homes
A state-owned site beside the Intrepid Museum is selected for two connected towers, affordable housing and a new piece of public waterfront infrastructure.
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