Kriston Capps

“Searching for Superpublics,” an exhibit at New York’s Center for Architecture, considers how super-sized events such as marathons reveal the underlying infrastructure of public space.

His planned space would be much larger than luxury banquet halls in the US capital and a departure from traditional presidential style.

By putting the demolition of the East Wing before the necessary approvals for his ballroom, President Donald Trump borrowed a tactic known as “stake-driving” to force an outcome.

With little fanfare, the Trump administration demolished the East Wing of the White House in order to make space for a new 90,000-square-foot ballroom. President Donald Trump teased the project for months, first announcing his plan to build a $100 million addition back in February. But the Trump administration didn’t originally say that construction of the ballroom — whose price tag has since more than tripled — would require the entire East Wing to be razed.

The US Department of Housing and Urban Development cut its inspection team two weeks after a public housing building partially collapsed in the Bronx.

An op-ed by a former Supreme Court justice reveals the values embedded in the court by the building’s designers.

Sara Bronin, founder of the National Zoning Atlas, has won the Heinz Award for her ongoing project to map the land-use rules that restrict housing production.

Hello and welcome to Bloomberg’s weekly design digest. I’m Kriston Capps, staff writer for Bloomberg CityLab and your guide to the world of architecture and the people who build things.

An exhibit at the National Building Museum explores the best practices of cities as they work to revive their downtowns. Plus: Take a tour of Chicago’s best brickwork.

By organizing renters across Capital Realty Group’s affordable housing complexes, the Tenant Union Federation hopes to bring sectoral bargaining to negotiations with large landlords.