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Antoine Predock, Architect Who Channeled the Southwest, Dies at 87

His striking, acclaimed structures evoked the desert. But for major projects elsewhere in the world, he adopted the same principle:…

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‘An Incoherent Riot’: Why London’s Skyline Looks So Weird

London has a jarring profusion of odd skyscrapers with funny names or nicknames. There are the Shard and the Scalpel,…

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Billionaire-Built Cities Would Be Better Than Nothing

A company backed by Silicon Valley’s most powerful investors, including the LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman and the venture capitalist Marc…

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The OpenAI Coup Is Great for Microsoft. What Does It Mean for Us?

There was the coup that hit the headlines: the OpenAI board’s abrupt ousting of its co-founder and chief executive, Sam…

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New York City May Pay You to Build a ‘Granny Flat’ in Your Backyard

Fifteen New Yorkers living in single-family homes could get up to nearly $400,000 to build an extra apartment on their…

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California Slams San Francisco for ‘Egregious’ Barriers to Housing Construction

The city adopted a state-approved plan in January to build 82,000 new housing units in eight years. It’s already failing.

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Fossil Reveals Ancient Seafloor Communities

Remnants of decaying tiny animals were colonized by others in an interspecies interaction dating back 480 million years.

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Business

Vermont Utility Plans to End Outages by Giving Customers Batteries

Green Mountain Power is asking state regulators to let it buy batteries it will install at customers’ homes, saying doing…

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Biden, the Border, and Why a New Wall Is Going Up

The Biden administration said on Thursday that it would build up to 20 miles of border barriers authorized during the…

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Can Britain Boom and Bloom at Once?

“I feel somehow / That it isn’t going to last,” Philip Larkin wrote in “Going, Going,” his lament for the…

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