It is striking to discover the unabashedly futuristic architecture of spectacle of the Zenith concert halls cropping up on the outskirts of French towns and cities often best known for the soaring spires of their Gothic cathedrals.

Amy Archer began making large-scale, photographic art works by accident. In 2005, she was meeting a friend for breakfast at the Rockefeller Center Club in Manhattan. While waiting, she snapped some photos of the light glinting off the restaurant’s Art Deco-style chairs.

A noticeable trend of late seems to be for major art collectors to create their own private museums, much as their Enlightenment forebears did in the 18th century. 

It’s hardly a secret that Germany has long been at the forefront of energy-saving design. Even back in the early Modern days, its health-oriented obsession with getting natural light and cross ventilation into living quarters paved the way for later passive-energy-saving strategies.

In the past few years, New York City has been valiantly trying to turn around its deserved reputation for treating innovative architecture like an exotic disease that should be stamped out by courageous developers, bankers, and government officials.

The wisest architects are often ones who do not hang on too long to their first scheme.