Jack Murphy

Manhattan’s skyline has a new king: Tall, dark, and handsome, 270 Park Avenue, the JPMorgan Chase headquarters by Foster + Partners now lords over Midtown. Similar to SHoP’s Brooklyn Tower across the East River, its expressive exterior is bronzed and high... See more

What follows in this issue is the year’s best design projects, products, and practices as selected by three external juries organized by AN. When you flip through these pages, you are seeing the impressive results not only of hours of study and debate by ... See more

In 1957, Mies van der Rohe worked on a proposal for a series of towers adjacent to Battery Park at the tip of Manhattan. It was scrapped, and a decade later, Carson, Lundin & Shaw designed an imposing brick-clad fortress for Manufacturers Hanover Trus... See more

Lars Lerup died on November 5, 2025. He was an architect, author, theorist, educator, and dean who was best known for his academic leadership at UC Berkeley and Rice University. He is survived by his wife, Eva, and their son, Darius. Lerup grew up in Växj... See more

Hunting bin Laden on 'the roof of the world' How an encounter in a remote Pakistani bazaar prompted a search for the al-Qaida leader In September 2005, in a remote valley in Pakistan, a CIA contractor locked eyes with a man he was sure was Osama bin Laden... See more