Michael Kimmelman

A singular genius, Gehry redefined architecture with joyful buildings like the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles and the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao.

After seven years and $160 million, the museum has an uplifting home on a street that has always been a barometer of Harlem’s fortunes and aspirations.

President Trump’s demolish first, ask-questions-later approach highlights a tension involved in a bipartisan desire to streamline the building process.

For $100 million, Sotheby’s bought a masterpiece by Marcel Breuer, the former home of the Whitney Museum. It has a thoughtful new interior.

A shuttered plant is reimagined as Manresa Wilds, an example of an old facility repurposed to solve a new century’s problems.

Two new parks fortifying the city’s coastline survived a bureaucratic gantlet that reveals why progress so often feels stuck.

These humble, concrete blobs, designed to ease entry into delis and other stores, can resemble glaciers, pancakes or clamshells and affirm the civic compact.

The rickety, beloved Delacorte Theater, built in 1962, leaked and was popular with raccoons. Now it’s a modern facility and still charmingly wild.

Tearing down a garage wall to renovate a park at the performing arts complex may help heal a civic wound and transform a neighborhood.

The $160 million Davis Center, with upgrades to six bucolic acres and a lake, writes a new chapter for the Harlem end of the park.