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How do we begin to understand architecture when it completely erases the notion of scale to create an unfamiliar experience?

Human Scale. A selection of articles, interviews and projects

The Penn Community Defense Fund has filed a lawsuit against the State of New York over the development of the area surrounding Penn Station.

Housing activists in North Lawndale unite with Jewish groups during fall harvest festival.

Chicago Sukkah Design Festival will bring ad-hoc structures, or sukkahs, to Chicago's southside to coincide with the Jewish holiday Sukkot.

And they were just this vivian leigh, clark gable kind of pairing. > were flying, jack. >> "titanic" is this moment where james cameron is straddling these two worlds, the human scale and the computer scale putting them together. and from this moment on, 97, the world goes computer. >> you have to let it all go, fear, doubt. and disbelief. free your mind. >> whoa. >> "the matrix" changes >> "the matrix" changes everything. you have the embrace of eastern cinema into western canon. and youve got ...

Woman who was taken out of a hospital pregnant, that she died, her baby died, what goes through your mind? >> we have to do more. our earliest members, probably, of understanding world war ii, were the black and white footage of the blitzkrieg and the devastation left behind on a human scale and we knew that we could never let something like that happen again, and yet its beginning. >> well, you heard what the ukrainian president said. we just had a member of parliament on. their argument is, ev...

Read more from Lawrence Wright on The New Yorker

Elmgreen & Dragset New Tenants exhibition transforms Perrotin’s Matignon gallery in Paris into an uncanny massage parlour

Saying there? were not going to vote for it, not that the doesnt need to be done. what is at stake if this debt ceiling isnt raised? >> well, financial havoc is really at stake. i mean, youre talking about as we saw ten years ago, the credit rating of the united states government being reduced. financial chaos in the markets. the markets will tank. and most importantly, on a human scale, well have literally millions and millions of americans, veterans, teachers, so forth, who will not be getting...