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Edward Gunts

Edward Gunts

is the former architecture critic for The Baltimore Sun. He writes for The Architects Newspaper and other publications about architecture, art, real estate development and preservation issues.
Latest Stories
Bard Building prior to major demolition work
Bye Bye Bard

Demolition underway on Anthony Lumsden’s Bard Building in Baltimore

Good News

Modernist structures by Paul Rudolph and Ulrich Franzen are New York City’s newest landmarks

Second Renaissance

Benjamin Thompson’s Harborplace in Baltimore reimagined as a mixed-use development with buildings by Gensler, 3XN Architects, and BCT Design Group

Under One Roof

Ennead Architects, Rockwell Group, and SmithGroup reinterpret the former Newseum as a new academic base for Johns Hopkins University

Ahoy!

Designs unveiled in “artistic ideas competition” for new National Museum of the United States Navy

lakefront library rendering
Biophilic Bibliophiles

Heatherwick Studio unveils design for Lakefront Library in Columbia, Maryland

flatiron building
Sold!

New York’s historic Flatiron Building sells at auction for $190 million

Check In

A plan for McGraw-Hill building to go partially residential prompts calls for its original lobby design to be brought back

crane and construction workers demolishing glass building
Breaking Ground for Bezos

Demolition begins on Gyo Obata–designed restaurant pavilion in Washington to make way for Bezos Learning Center

A pale pink building that says
Simple Twist of Tulsa

Olson Kundig transforms Tulsa warehouse into museum devoted to the life and work Bob Dylan

portrait of architect harold adams
1939–2022

Harold L. Adams, longtime CEO of RTKL, passes away at 82

aerial view of the National Air and Space Museum in black and white
Pave The Way

Gyo Obata’s restaurant pavilion on the National Mall to be demolished to make way for $130 million Bezos Learning Center

The exterior of the FBI headquarters in DC
Under Consideration

Fourteen D. C. sites are under consideration for the two new Smithsonian museums, including the FBI headquarters

view from behind home plate at the camden yards baseball field
On The Fence

Camden Yards seeks to level the playing field for pitchers and hitters—by enlarging it

Eaton Centre, a mall with an enclosed glass roof
Look Up

Toronto’s Eaton Centre will get a $77 million makeover led by Zeidler Architecture

Eberhard Zeidler, an elderly man, in black and white sitting on a chair
1926–2022

Eberhard Zeidler, architect behind many of Canada’s best-known buildings, passes away at 95

a mural on the side of a building in the Gansevoort Market Historic District
Enthusiastic Thumbs Up

The Whitney Museum’s Gansevoort Market Historic District art program gets another renewal

One of the confederate monuments that will go on display in a new show of the same name
Same Name, Different Theme

Toppled Confederate statues will be paired with contemporary art in L.A.’s new MONUMENTS exhibition

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