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Antoine Predock, Architect Who Channeled the Southwest, Dies at 87
His striking, acclaimed structures evoked the desert. But for major projects elsewhere in the world, he adopted the same principle:…
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‘An Incoherent Riot’: Why London’s Skyline Looks So Weird
London has a jarring profusion of odd skyscrapers with funny names or nicknames. There are the Shard and the Scalpel,…
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Billionaire-Built Cities Would Be Better Than Nothing
A company backed by Silicon Valley’s most powerful investors, including the LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman and the venture capitalist Marc…
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The OpenAI Coup Is Great for Microsoft. What Does It Mean for Us?
There was the coup that hit the headlines: the OpenAI board’s abrupt ousting of its co-founder and chief executive, Sam…
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New York City May Pay You to Build a ‘Granny Flat’ in Your Backyard
Fifteen New Yorkers living in single-family homes could get up to nearly $400,000 to build an extra apartment on their…
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California Slams San Francisco for ‘Egregious’ Barriers to Housing Construction
The city adopted a state-approved plan in January to build 82,000 new housing units in eight years. It’s already failing.
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Fossil Reveals Ancient Seafloor Communities
Remnants of decaying tiny animals were colonized by others in an interspecies interaction dating back 480 million years.
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Vermont Utility Plans to End Outages by Giving Customers Batteries
Green Mountain Power is asking state regulators to let it buy batteries it will install at customers’ homes, saying doing…
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Biden, the Border, and Why a New Wall Is Going Up
The Biden administration said on Thursday that it would build up to 20 miles of border barriers authorized during the…
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Can Britain Boom and Bloom at Once?
“I feel somehow / That it isn’t going to last,” Philip Larkin wrote in “Going, Going,” his lament for the…
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