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Design and construction

Supernumerary

by Christopher Beha,

Onstage with the People’s Opera

Lulus, do-nothings, and the machinery of the state

by Heather Smith,

by Frederick Seidel,

My father was a hunchback. He had an accident on his bicycle when he was a child, which ended with his falling into a coal cellar, a fall of thirty…

Art by Huan Zhang,

by Doris May Lessing,

by Daniel Brook,

What public-housing design can learn from its past

Art by Graham Anderson,

by Jake Silverstein,

Ronald McDonald conquers New Spain

Art by Mark Shetabi,

by Alexander Blakely,

Russia paves the Trans-Siberian gap