Oct 14, 2025 Rio de Janeiro Brazil Caixa de Amortização, Rio de Janeiro Haussmannian urban renewal in the tropics, a facade competition, and a precursor to the Central Bank of Brazil.
Sep 30, 2025 Rio de Janeiro Brazil Ministry of Education & Health Building / Palácio Gustavo Capanema, Rio de Janeiro The big bang of Brazilian modernism...but someone else won the initial design competition.
Sep 22, 2025 San Francisco California From the archive Radio City, San Francisco Born a white elephant, one of the least streamlined Streamline Moderne buildings.
Sep 19, 2025 Chicago Illinois Crematorium, Chapel & Vault, Oak Woods Cemetery, Chicago Soon after first firing the crematorium here in 1909, the management at Oak Woods Cemetery turned around and instituted a color line—racist even in death, “we only burn white bodies here”.