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Aaron Smithson

Aaron Smithson

is a dual master in architecture and master in urban planning candidate at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.
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inside a greenpoint townhome that has been reclad in white oak
Greenpoint Sanctuary

Hatchet NYC brings the sunshine into a narrow Brooklyn rowhouse

inside offset house, with white scalloped ceiling and skylights
Scalloped Synergy

Overlay Office transforms a 19th-century Brooklyn rowhouse into the quirky Offset House

inside Bacetti, a roman inspired restaurant with exposed wood trusses
Textured Trattoria

Stayner Architects brings Rome-inspired materials to a new restaurant in Echo Park

A mountain of birds killed by flying into the glass of the world trade centers
Collision Crisis

Why do glassy towers keep killing so many birds?

east river park in the summer
Protection At A Price

New York begins demolition of East River Park for new concrete storm barriers

The sprawling averne east housing complex, with solar panels on top of buildings
Rockaway Resiliency

New York’s Rockaway Peninsula will be home to the city’s first net-zero development

a look at soho
Gone With The Garden?

SoHo/NoHo rezoning puts Elizabeth Street Garden on rockier footing

The chicago skyline
On Native Land

Chicago will fund the city’s first affordable housing complex for Indigenous residents

the national mall with washington monument where beyond granite will rise
More For The Mall

Van Alen Institute and The Urban Studio will go Beyond Granite on the National Mall

Timber wrapped shading pavilions designed by Kishore Varanasi
Cooling Down

Kishore Varanasi on preparing U.S. cities for rising temperatures

Beams in the Bronx

Sean Desiree’s Bronx Beam Ensemble pays homage to Black musical traditions

Harvard’s new Science and Engineering Complex, with a grated facade
Grate Design

Harvard’s new Science and Engineering Complex is wrapped in a shimmering second skin

New Front Yahd

Sasaki’s extensive renovation of Boston City Hall Plaza is moving along

aerial view of downtown Indianapolis
Local Hire

Indianapolis hires new deputy planning director with a focus on equity

facade of a museum in chinatown, manhattan
Money For MoCA

Public investment in Manhattan’s Museum of Chinese in America sparks anti-gentrification protests

Inside Berghain, converted to display projected photos of wildnerness
Dance Floor Dreamscape

Berlin’s famous Berghain nightclub gets transformed with hypnotic landscape imagery

Rendering of the Robert L.B. Tobin Land Bridge in San Antonio, which is now complete
Creature Comforts

This new San Antonio land bridge enables people and animals to safely cross a busy highway

The grounds of templo mayor
Tacky Tenochtitlan?

Mexico’s foam Aztec pyramid replica draws ridicule online

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