Stephen Shames Highlights a Transformational Era in ‘Black Panthers & Revolution’

Completed in 1940, California Highway 17—now Interstate 880—bulldozed a vast swath of Oakland’s African American community to make room for the route. Cut off from downtown, these neighborhoods were stripped of their economic connections to the commercial center, disrupting social cohesion and among other policies and attitudes at the time, setting in motion an era…

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perforated brickwork forms pixelated pattern upon restored seoul building by NOMAL

NOMAL reconstructs a 1960s structure in Seoul’s Sinchon district   Originally constructed in 1966, the Cracker building, restored by NOMAL, reflects a period of rapid urban growth in Seoul. Beginning as a two-story structure, it was gradually expanded with additional masonry and lightweight steel floors. These extensions, added without coherent planning, created structural instability, with…

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