Michael Kimmelman

He was known as the Man of Steel. But the sculptor was also an eternal poet, reshaping our perception of space, says our critic.

Via Verde aspired to serve as a model of beautiful, sustainable subsidized housing. A decade later, our critic finds that a building can change minds, but maybe not systems.

This flood-prone city on the Hudson River balances climate infrastructure with resident needs.

Transformative projects don’t conform to election cycles. They’re not the work of any single person.

Bogotá led the world with innovation in inexpensive mass transit. Its experience shows what it takes to keep progress going.

The Perelman Performing Arts Center, a glamorous $500 million project, may yet turn the World Trade Center into a neighborhood. The New York Times architecture critic, Michael Kimmelman, discusses Lower Manhattan’s new beacon.

The stylish new Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center took over a former museum in Washington. It’s got potential to become a community hub.

This flood-prone city on the Hudson River has bundled water-absorbing infrastructure into benefits residents asked for, like parks and safer streets.

Views of the Empire State Building are being obscured by a new 860-foot luxury tower rising just blocks away. Should New York regulate its skyline?

Designed by David Adjaye, a $50 million Dream Charter School rises from a ruined plant on the Harlem River. But the construction process was tragic.

Cities are a form of life and they need constant care to stay strong. They didn’t get that care in Turkey.

Over the past century it has been channeled, subdued, blighted. Is it time for the Los Angeles River to serve the city in a new way?

David Geffen Hall, the New York Philharmonic’s Lincoln Center home, is reopening after a $550 million renovation aimed at breaking its acoustic curse — and adding a dash of glamour.

Take a unique tour of the renovated U.S.T.A. Billie Jean King National Tennis Center. Michael Kimmelman, The Times’s architecture critic, says that despite being a corporate playground, it maintains the spirit of the 1964 World’s Fair, on whose bones the tennis center rests.

How a crisis can help us rethink space and reimagine the future.

A new collective of Black architects and artists, formed out of a show now at MoMA, aims to “reclaim the larger civic promise of architecture.”

Stroll through the city’s most global neighborhood with the author Suketu Mehta, featuring Diversity Plaza, Roosevelt Avenue and the birth of Scrabble.

Yankee Stadium was the site of a salt marsh. Concourse Plaza was a valley. Our critic walks with Eric W. Sanderson, a conservation ecologist.

In the waterlogged Netherlands, climate change is considered neither a hypothetical nor a drag on the economy. Instead, it’s an opportunity.

Cities are epicenters of capital and creativity, designed to be occupied collectively. Pandemics are anti-urban, preying on our human desire for connection.