Architecture — Architecture in Limbo

Architecture in Limbo Aaron Betsky on how the COVID-19 pandemic has brought the profession to an apparent standstill. Laurian Ghinitoiu OMA's Norra Tornen highrise in Stockholm It is a boring time for architecture. That is not necessarily a bad thing. New buildings that have been recently been announced or have just opened include the elegant (David Adjaye, Hon. FAIA’s proposed addition to the Princeton Art Museum or Diller Scofidio + Renfro’s Rubenstein Forum at the University of Chicago), the head-scratching (OMA’s pixelated block tower in Stockholm, which somehow won this year’s Highrise Award), and the seemingly banal (Berlin’s long-awaited new...