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When it comes to New York City, we’ve brought you some glorious time-lapse footage and even taken you inside the homes of local New Yorkers, but you have never seen the most famous city in the world transformed like this. We don’t want to reveal too much, but below is animated film of NYC that…

The intersection of Northwest 2nd Avenue and 25th Street, in the center of Wynwood, will soon have a colorful crosswalk designed by kinetic artist Carlos Cruz-Diez, Curbed has learned from somebody involved with the project. It’s the first of many artist-designed crosswalks planned for Wynwood by the Miami Biennale which will collectively be called the…

Philippe Starck’s design career has been all over the place, what with his rocket-ship juicers, submarine yachts, New Mexican spaceport and this profoundly painful-looking chair for director Wim Wenders. It’s no surprise, then, that his latest project hails out of left field: It’s a line of chic scooter-cycle hybrids for a new bike-sharing program in…

Soon after President Obama places his hand on the Lincoln Bible on Monday, he will join lawmakers for a luncheon of steamed lobster, hickory-grilled bison and New England chowder in the Capitol’s ornate Statuary Hall. Meanwhile, in the trendy corridors of this city, the Good Stuff Eatery on Capitol Hill will be serving its signature…

Remember hipsters? That cultural relic of the aughts, whose lifespan was marked by derisive irony, faux working-class affectations, and a now-cliche hankering for Pabst Blue Ribbon beer? As an urban tribe, they are dead — decisively dead — having out-mainstreamed themselves back into the mainstream, an ouroboros of meta pop cultural references and sneering disdain…

Check out this blog post from the Atlantic Cities, even buildings are being connected to social media and not just through social media check-ins. According to Joshua Boltuch and his colleagues, “the built environment is in need of a social network of its own.”

Check out this blog post from The New York Times Opinionator on why we don’t read about architecture. According to Alexandra Lange “we need to engage our citizenry in architecture in ways that move from passivity or accusation and to do so we need more … architecture critics.”

Check out this blog post from the Atlantic Cities. Salvaged signs are receiving a breath of new life as part of a 50-foot-tall sign made in New York. According to Tom Fruin regarding his artwork, “it’s like sleeping in the middle of Times Square, but without the rat bites.”