SOM’s New Terra-Cotta-Clad Headquarters for Disney Adds a Touch of Magic to Manhattan

On a full-block site, a rarity in high-density Manhattan, an enormous new corporate headquarters has risen. For its bulk, it is almost obsessively unshowy, though its oversize windows, framed in rounded extrusions of iridescent terra-cotta, reward notice along the street. Identified only as 7 Hudson Square, the 19-story Robert A. Iger Building gathers the disparate New York production […]

5 Key Facts About Medicaid and Pregnancy

Improving maternal and infant health is a national priority at the state and federal level. In the face of preventable maternal mortality, stark racial and ethnic disparities, and large gaps in the availability of maternity and reproductive health care in many communities, policymakers, clinicians, and other health care stakeholders have turned to the Medicaid program […]

LACMA Defends Its New Building by Peter Zumthor | 2020-09-17

Though the long-planned building for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), designed by Pritzker Prize–laureate Peter Zumthor, received the unanimous approval of the L.A. County Board of Supervisors last year, it has been an ongoing target of withering criticism, from ad hoc groups and the Los Angeles Times art critic, Christopher Knight, who […]