Reposted by Christopher Hawthornejamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13/10/2026ah, the return of merit 1975479574
Christopher Hawthorne @hawthorne.bsky.social · 09/10/2026I hope you'll read and share this one. On the Eames Institute and its hardline MAGA backer, Joe Gebbia, whose X feed mixes aphorisms from Charles Eames with praise for Alex Jones and the John Birch Society www.punchlistmag.com/p/the-eames-...punchlistmag.comThe Eames Institute has a Joe Gebbia problemWhat would Charles and Ray make of his praise for Alex Jones and the John Birch Society? For that matter, what would they make of Edward “Big Balls” Coristine? Plus: the Stahl House struggles to find ... 195
Christopher Hawthorne @hawthorne.bsky.social · 04/10/2026“Concrete has become the ultra-processed food of the construction industry. It’s crazy. Why take stone, crush it, heat it, process it and then pour it? Why not just use the stone?”ft.comHome - Financial TimesNews, analysis and opinion from the Financial Times on the latest in markets, economics and politics 4184
Christopher Hawthorne @hawthorne.bsky.social · 20/09/2026just going to leave this here www.punchlistmag.com/p/our-new-ar...punchlistmag.comNew postHow the Arc de Trump unveiling soft-launched the Venezuela takeover 030
Reposted by Christopher HawthorneAlexander Luckmann @aluckmann.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Pleased to have a note on The Sea Ranch in this week’s Punch List Architecture Newsletter alongside a great interview with Sekou Cooke www.punchlistmag.com/p/the-educat... 4257
Reposted by Christopher HawthorneNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Maybe some of those "why are you campaigning with an antisemite?" questions could go to Republicans backed by a Sieg Heiling white nationalist. The silence is especially deafening because Musk's involvement helped Republicans lose in WI in 2025, so the press even has its preferred horserace frame. 361856483
Reposted by Christopher HawthorneAlex Bozikovic @alexbozikovic.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Barton Myers, 1934-2026. A crucial figure in Toronto architecture and urban design has died 65216
Christopher Hawthorne @hawthorne.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Remember that @archpaper.com essay on NYC's containerization plan that all of @bsky.app hated on so aggressively last week? I asked Matt Shaw, who wrote it, if he'd join me on Punch List to defend the piece & discuss "the online ruckus." To his credit, he did: www.punchlistmag.com/p/dumpster-f...punchlistmag.comDumpster fireMatt Shaw, author of the summer’s most hated design essay, visits Punch List to defend himself. Plus, women run the Guggenheim(s), more on Tom Hines, and the sad state of L.A.’s Sixth Street Bridge 021
Christopher Hawthorne @hawthorne.bsky.social · 05/08/2026www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/u...nytimes.comParts of Trump’s New White House Helipad Disassembled, Photos ShowLast week, construction workers had begun to decorate the new South Lawn helipad with a giant presidential seal. By Tuesday, the design was gone. 020
Christopher Hawthorne @hawthorne.bsky.social · 05/08/2026"Lockheed Martin, which owns Sikorsky, has said it is paying to build the helipad as a donation." 110
Reposted by Christopher Hawthornekate wehwalt @katewagner.wehwalt.net · 06/07/2026i don't know why lying about this is such a priority for people. you should have the chutzpah to say it's ugly and we should build it anyway 1962
Reposted by Christopher Hawthorneflyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 28/07/2026It’s worth emphasising: the public have reached this conclusion all by themselves, because they sure as shit weren’t told it by the US press. 3779206
Christopher Hawthorne @hawthorne.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Sigh. I was actually curious to read this thread, but it seems Ms. Wilson is merely workshopping a pitch to the New York Times for one of its famously nuanced pieces on Los Angeles 121
Reposted by Christopher HawthorneEryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Wired sets the frame that the model “escaped containment,” but from an accountability perspective, OpenAI left a door open by failing to properly isolate their system. Real headline: “OpenAI’s security failure leads to cyberattack against another AI company.” 1126869
Reposted by Christopher HawthorneEryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 22/07/2026For posterity, from the NYTimes. Complete displacement of accountability. 211918
Christopher Hawthorne @hawthorne.bsky.social · 22/07/2026but this is the secret sauce! doing small "bland" buildings over and over as a way to learn where he wanted to go and how to get there—maybe 5x what morphosis and EOM built in the early years, or even 10x 270
Christopher Hawthorne @hawthorne.bsky.social · 22/07/2026"at the cost of research velocity" is such a petulant way to phrase it. sorry to interrupt your race to ruin the world! 041
Christopher Hawthorne @hawthorne.bsky.social · 22/07/2026also terrifying: the robo-language OpenAI is using as it struggles to do damage control. “We are implementing strict controls in infrastructure configuration at the cost of research velocity while the vulnerabilities are patched.” 130
Christopher Hawthorne @hawthorne.bsky.social · 22/07/2026well this is terrifying www.nytimes.com/2026/07/21/t...nytimes.comOpenAI Says Its A.I. Models Went Rogue and Attacked a Digital LibraryThe incident, which targeted the computer systems of another company called Hugging Face, happened while OpenAI was testing the systems. 251
Christopher Hawthorne @hawthorne.bsky.social · 21/07/2026all true! and it's also true that single-stair advocacy would be more effective if it were accompanied by more sophisticated architectural ideas and a less blinkered/thicker-skinned understanding of urban design and policymaking. the replies I'm getting are quite effectively proving my point 210
Christopher Hawthorne @hawthorne.bsky.social · 21/07/2026It's really tiresome having to explain one's, um, fatigue, but of course it's better! that's not the point. the point is the tone and blinkered nature of the advocacy for it, esp. in online discourse. and nearly every reply is proving my point, tyvm 000
Christopher Hawthorne @hawthorne.bsky.social · 19/07/2026why is this particular silver-bullet chimera so attractive to a certain kind of online bro 330
Christopher Hawthorne @hawthorne.bsky.social · 19/07/2026this sentiment really belongs more on twitter than here, but I would be happy never hearing from the single-stair obsessives ever again 330
Christopher Hawthorne @hawthorne.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Some thoughts on embellishment in architecture and sport, by way of Embolo, D. Wade, Loos, Picon, Bloomer, et al: www.punchlistmag.com/p/ornament-a...punchlistmag.comOrnament and crime at the World CupWhat soccer can teach us about performative architecture, and vice versa. Plus: 120
Christopher Hawthorne @hawthorne.bsky.social · 14/07/2026but adding an oxford comma would make this headline more ambiguous/confusing, not less! as written there's only one way to read it 110
Reposted by Christopher HawthorneAdam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Cool interview of Morgenstern about the story by urbanism critic Christopher Hawthorne here. Morgenstern, usually a film critic, wrote two architecture stories: an early profile of Frank Gehry and this one. Hell of a two-for-two on that beat. www.punchlistmag.com/p/i-beams-ar...punchlistmag.com“I-beams are bending like cigarettes in there”The latest on the crisis at the Pfizer building—including a conversation with Joe Morgenstern, who wrote a canonical New Yorker article on another midtown tower in danger of collapse. Plus: Stierli an... 031
Christopher Hawthorne @hawthorne.bsky.social · 09/07/2026lol we couldn't even build a passable Spinal Tap version of the arch for the 250th Imagine how the real thing is going to look! 030
Christopher Hawthorne @hawthorne.bsky.social · 09/07/2026"We change ideas when they are bad, and reject memorials that are unsuitable. We urge you to do the same." 021
Christopher Hawthorne @hawthorne.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Priya Jain of @sah1365.bsky.social testifying against the Arc de Trump at today's NCPC meeting: "Reject this hasty and inappropriate proposal." 251
Christopher Hawthorne @hawthorne.bsky.social · 08/07/2026envious! but why was the run of that show soooo short? barely six weeks, smack in the middle of finals and grad season. I don't get it 120
Christopher Hawthorne @hawthorne.bsky.social · 01/07/2026thanks for your service these pair nicely with the New Museum photos! 040
Reposted by Christopher HawthornePeter Hill @peterkhill.bsky.social · 27/06/2026From @hawthorne.bsky.social latest Punchlist Architecture Newsletter 044
Christopher Hawthorne @hawthorne.bsky.social · 24/06/2026also, the universal reports from ppl who have worked for him, or known him forever, are that lander is just the best 110
Christopher Hawthorne @hawthorne.bsky.social · 23/06/2026randomly he also looks just like the writer alain de botton! 020
Christopher Hawthorne @hawthorne.bsky.social · 23/06/2026If the Warriors can get either Burries or Morez, all good— 000
Reposted by Christopher HawthorneJames Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 02/06/2026Never gets old. J-school essay topic: Is there any performance test for essentially life-tenure columnists? A limit on how many big calls you can get totally wrong, before they say: Hey, buddy, how about taking a step back for a while. Maybe a few reported pieces? Where you go out and ask around? 2135445815
Reposted by Christopher HawthorneShannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 29/05/2026“To become president… in recent decades has required candidates to become prodigious fundraisers + expert shapers of their own personal and political narratives—two qualities that come in very handy when the time comes to craft a post-presidency plan + an architectural vision to go with it.” 071
Reposted by Christopher HawthorneShannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 29/05/2026“In order to ‘end the cult of personality that seems to be in place with the current Presidential Library system,… we need a single Prez Archives, housed in a facility run by the Nat’l Archives…in or nearby DC” Rotating exhibitions could be held there,… ‘but its primary purpose will be archival.’”punchlistmag.comIs it time to reinvent the presidential library?A road trip to Hyde Park reveals how far we’ve drifted from the original model 2326
Reposted by Christopher HawthorneBruno Tonelli @brunotonelli.bsky.social · 27/05/2026I will not be in L.A. but this must be very interesting: @hawthorne.bsky.social @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social @lamaterial.bsky.social luma.com/5ysm82a3?utm...luma.comA LACMA Therapy Session · LumaPlease join Punch List, New York Review of Architecture, and L.A. Material for a lively public forum on, and a chance for the people of Los Angeles to process… 084
Reposted by Christopher Hawthornederek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 24/05/2026faking an assassination attempt so you don't have to go to a wedding sounds like a curb your enthusiasm episode 238143531801
Reposted by Christopher HawthorneOl' Chef Dan @olchefdan.bsky.social · 25/05/2026Honestly, one of the funniest tweets I've ever seen. 737198273112
Reposted by Christopher HawthorneBruno Tonelli @brunotonelli.bsky.social · 10/05/2026"The new LACMA is a big deal for Los Angeles. The Wilshire subway is even bigger" In his "Punch List" @hawthorne.bsky.social discusses the D Line extension: www.punchlistmag.com/p/the-new-la...punchlistmag.comThe new LACMA is a big deal for Los Angeles. The Wilshire subway is even biggerA conversation with India Mandelkern about her new book on the D Line extension and the “chronic civic illness” of L.A. NIMBYism; plus: a Lamster Pulitzer and the latest architects to reimagine the Me... 063
Reposted by Christopher HawthorneEdward Russell @byerussell.com · 08/05/2026“The Wilshire subway is an especially notable milestone in this expansion. It remakes a key backbone of LA car culture, the home of the Miracle Mile and the Petersen Automotive Museum alike, as a heavy-rail corridor.” Excellent piece on the D Line opening from @hawthorne.bsky.social.punchlistmag.comThe new LACMA is a big deal for Los Angeles. The Wilshire subway is even biggerA conversation with India Mandelkern about the D Line extension, a key section of which opens today; plus: a Lamster Pulitzer and the latest young architects to reimagine the Met 0101
