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Architect and urban planner Vishaan Chakrabarti strives to address broader problems in his designs—climate change, housing costs, income inequality—and to “create civic delight.” That word "delight" is seldom applied to the current Penn Station.

Betsy Barlow Rogers says of Central Park, “I live overlooking the park, and I’m blessed at this stage in life just to know that heaven is at my doorstep." In the 80s, Rogers served as Central Park Administrator, leading the effort to restore it to its current glory. “It’s a wonderful feeling,” she adds. Rogers tell us about Frederick Law Olmsted and of course, Central Park.

The Thomas Cole National Historic Site has a new visitors center that transforms how people experience the national historic landmark. The building – named the Cole Center – has been designed by Stephen Shadley, the renowned New York City-based architectural designer who is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Thomas Cole Site.

Speaking at—and of— Gansevoort Plaza, a public space he designed, landscape architect Ken Smith considers the story of the past as well as the needs of the present: “Land has memory. It’s really a crime to erase the memory of a place.” Smith tells us about John Cage, Spiral Jetty and…acorns.

On March 2, 2023, the acclaimed architect Rafael Viñoly died suddenly, at 78, just two weeks before his scheduled “Person Place Thing.” Rather than cancel, his son Román used the occasion to reflect on his father.

Landscape architect Kate Orff has learned a lot — about nature, about human behavior, about their intersection. Her hope for the future: “Can we just make better mistakes, can we not make the really, really dumb mistakes.” Orff tells us about Forest Park and a he hori hori knife.

Architect Jason Korb discusses the construction of a mass timber building set to be the tallest of its kind.

This week on Person Place Thing, when Jonathan Marvel was a kid, his great-uncle Buckminster Fuller often came to the house. When he was a young man, he…

The Linde Center for Music and Learning is designed by William Rawn Associates Architects, led by William Rawn and Cliff Gayley, and is the largest…

“In Frederic Church’s Ombra: Architecture in Conversation with Nature” is a new exhibition on view at Olana State Historic Site in Hudson, New York.…