To celebrate this week’s release of The Dark Knight Rises, I thought I’d take the opportunity to repost an excerpt from one of the most popular articles ever published on Life Without Buildings, the story of Batman, Gotham City, and an overzealous architecture historian with a working knowledge [...]
What if Bruce Wayne wanted to demolish Penn Station in order to surreptitiously construct an auxiliary Batcave beneath the new building? That, in essence, is the plot of Chip Kidd’s new graphic novel Batman: Death by Design. Though a few familiar faces –and grins– make an appearance, Death by Design is, for better and worse, a [...]
[Looking west from across the Gotham River, by Anton Furst]
New York, Dubai, Tokyo, Moscow, Gotham. Every city in every atlas—real and fictional— has a unique character shaped by history and geography. More than a mere sense of place derived from architecture and planning, cities have a feeling that pervades the consciousness [...]
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