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Bloomberg
05-05-2025
- General
- Bloomberg
CityLab Contributor Alexandra Lange Wins a Pulitzer Prize
Also today: Revisit the award-winning essays from CityLab contributor and design critic Alexandra Lange. By and Rthvika Suvarna Save We're thrilled to share that contributor Alexandra Lange has won the Pulitzer Prize in Criticism for her collection of essays in Bloomberg CityLab. The series explores design and architecture approaches to make urban spaces more family-friendly, including in housing, public spaces and cultural institutions. The Pulitzer board praised the pieces 'for graceful and genre-expanding writing about public spaces for families, deftly using interviews, observations and analysis to consider the architectural components that allow children and communities to thrive.'


Bloomberg
04-05-2025
- Business
- Bloomberg
Detroit Debates the Fate of GM's Hulking Former Headquarters
Plus: The president of the National Organization of Minority Architects talks about setting priorities in the second Trump era. By Save 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. This week a report by the Royal Institute of British Architects found that many UK designers aren't paid a living wage. Sign up to keep up: Subscribe to get the Design Edition newsletter every Sunday.


Bloomberg
27-04-2025
- Politics
- Bloomberg
Chicago's National Public Housing Museum Has a Message for Congress
With federal housing vouchers on the chopping block, lawmakers should consider the lessons learned from the last failed experiment in housing aid. By Save 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. This week the Nelson-Atkins Museum in Kansas City, Missouri, announced that Weiss/Manfredi/Architecture/Landscape/Urbanism will design a $160–170 million museum expansion. Sign up to keep up: Subscribe to get the Design Edition newsletter every Sunday.


Bloomberg
13-04-2025
- General
- Bloomberg
Inside Architect Annabelle Selldorf's Sensitive Frick Collection Renovation
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. This week commissioners for the US Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale gave a glimpse of their upcoming exhibit about porches. Sign up to keep up: Subscribe to get the Design Edition newsletter every Sunday.


Bloomberg
06-04-2025
- General
- Bloomberg
New York's Subway Map Embraces a Minimalist 1970s Throwback Vibe
By Kriston Capps and Save 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. This week's Design Edition is a dispatch by Mark Byrnes on New York's new subway map, which will be familiar to longtime New Yorkers and fans of minimalism. Sign up to keep up: Subscribe to get the Design Edition newsletter every Sunday.