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Batman Demolishes Penn Station in Chip Kidd’s Death by Design

[The cover to Batman: Death by Design]  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 […]

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Batman, Gotham City, and an Overzealous Architecture Historian With a Working Knowledge of Explosives

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 of those who live there until they themselves become a piece of the […]