Michael Kimmelman

The city faces a choice: remake itself into something largely familiar or take a bolder path and emerge as a new metropolis.

The Paris cathedral has reopened, five years after a devastating fire. The Times’s chief architecture critic tells its story.

After Notre-Dame caught fire in 2019, France’s president, Emmanuel Macron, promised to reopen the cathedral in five years. The timeline seemed a Hail Mary. Yet here we are. Michael Kimmelman, architecture critic for The New York Times, brings us a behind-the-scenes look at the faithful restoration of Notre-Dame, which opens to the public on Dec. 8.

After Notre-Dame caught fire in 2019, France’s president, Emmanuel Macron, promised to reopen the cathedral in five years. The timeline seemed a Hail Mary. Yet here we are. Michael Kimmelman, architecture critic for The New York Times, brings us a behind-the-scenes look at the faithful restoration of Notre-Dame, which opens to the public on Dec. 8.

Five years after a fire nearly felled the cathedral that has dazzled visitors for almost 900 years, the heart of Paris beats anew.

A gay bar. A bookstore. Fresh salt air. We could learn to preserve what matters most to people.

A plan would demolish aged housing projects in Chelsea and build new homes and thousands of additional apartments. It could be a game changer.

His Brutalist buildings, praised during the Kennedy era, are now being demolished. A new exhibition in Manhattan looks at the limits of genius.

Building subsidized housing in America relies on cheap land, and creative ideas

While L.A. County grapples with homelessness, elegant new housing projects in Long Beach and Venice signal the solutions — and challenges — ahead.