New York City is finally trying out the Portland Loo, a prefabricated public bathroom that cities like Portland, Oregon — where it originated — Seattle, and Boston have turned to as a cost-effective toilet solution. As The City More »
Los Angeless Conflicted Hype-House King
Lil Nas X had a rager of a birthday last year: Zedd DJ-ed, and the man of the hour, wearing a pink sequined football uniform, partied with a thousand of his closest friends under the light of what looked like...
Rupert Murdoch Is Returning to Hampshire House
Rupert Murdoch is returning to Hampshire House. As The Wall Street Journal reports, the nonagenarian conservative media mogul is in contract to purchase a rare flo... More »
An Installation of Clothes, Cardboard, and Plywood Takes Over the Japan Society
At the end of January, Japan Society was packed for an event it hadn’t staged since the 1970s: a runway show. Models decked out in pants with large dangling fringe; plastered in tops made of layered text; and wrapped in...
A Brief History of Elon Musks Master Plans
Elon Musk has a vision for “a fully sustainable energy future for Earth,” he announced earlier this month. If you would like to know what that entails, you can tune in for Investor Day, the Ma... More »
Skyscrapers, Now With More Terror
Vertical-drop rides are usually a mainstay of amusement parks. The tallest, at 415 feet, is just across the river at Six Flags in New Jersey. Disney had its own version for more than a decade — the 130-foot-high... More »
Theres a War Going on in Your Local Buy Nothing Group
In mid-January, the Buy Nothing group in Milton, Washington, interrupted its usual feed of free baby onesies and old desk chairs with an abrupt announcement. The group, wrote admin Mari Pepping, would “no longer be associated” with the Buy Nothing...
The Bronx Childrens Museum Is Just Antic Enough
It’s never simple for an architect to please a client, serve the public, stick to a budget, satisfy bureaucrats, and produce a pleasing whole, all at the same time. It becomes even more challenging when the client is used to...
A Trailer in the Hamptons Sells for $3.75 Million
A single, 800-square-foot beachfront mobile home in the Hamptons just sold for $3.75 million. This extremely expensive trailer beat the area’s previous record for an extremely expensive trailer, which sold last year for $1.85 million. As the New York Post...
Listening In on Line at Glossier
Living in New York means constantly, discreetly listening in — to breakups at bars, friend fights on the subway, and gossip about complete strangers or, from time to time, people you do in fact know. But what happens when you...