ArchDaily | Broadcasting Architecture Worldwide https://www.archdaily.com/ Thu, 17 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://assets.adsttc.com/doodles/archdaily-logo-feedly.svg 026CB6 https://www.archdaily.com/614156/8-influential-art-deco-skyscrapers-by-ralph-thomas-walker Wed, 01 Apr 2015 06:00:19 +0000 David Langdon https://www.archdaily.com/614156/8-influential-art-deco-skyscrapers-by-ralph-thomas-walker No architect played a greater role in shaping the twentieth century Manhattan skyline than Ralph Thomas Walker, winner of the 1957 AIA Centennial Gold Medal and a man once dubbed “Architect of the Century” by the New York Times. [1] But a late-career ethics scandal involving allegations of stolen contracts by a member of his firm precipitated his retreat from the architecture establishment and his descent into relative obscurity. Only recently has his prolific career been popularly reexamined, spurred by a new monograph and a high-profile exhibit of his work at the eponymous Walker Tower in New York in 2012.

]]> https://www.archdaily.com/453567/cooper-union-students-campaign-to-keep-architecture-education-free Mon, 02 Dec 2013 00:00:00 +0000 Rory Stott https://www.archdaily.com/453567/cooper-union-students-campaign-to-keep-architecture-education-free With the news earlier this year that The Cooper Union in New York will, for the first time in 155 years, begin charging tuition fees to students in 2014, the existing students at its Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture are taking steps to ensure that it stays true to the meritocratic principles on which it was founded. To achieve this, they have launched the One Year Fund, an attempt to crowdsource $600,000 in order to cover the tuition fees of the incoming students in 2014.

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