Architecture

Bruce Ratner’s Brooklyn Arena Awaits Judges’ Ruling, Bond Sale I’m standing on the roof of a building in the New York borough of Brooklyn that offers a panorama of rusting rail yards and several empty commercial buildings and row houses. This could become the $800 million Barclays Center arena.

Helsinki’s $208 Million New Music Center Upstages Aalto’s Hall Osmo Vaenskae, the Finnish music director of the Minnesota Orchestra in Minneapolis, is looking forward to the opening of a new music center in Helsinki. He doesn’t have anything nice to say about the acoustics in Finlandia Hall, the city’s current main concert venue.

Sanctuary That Saves Racehorses From Slaughterhouse Needs Help There’s a gated community on Long Island’s south shore where valuable real estate is set aside for the homeless and unemployed, former professional athletes, now too old or injured to compete: thoroughbred horses.

Springer CEO Saves Potsdam Villa to Recall Cold War Spy Swaps Mathias Doepfner, the chief executive officer of Axel Springer AG, drives past Villa Schoeningen twice a day -- once on his way to work in Berlin and again on his way home to Potsdam.

Mad Housewife, Billion-Mark Note Renew Bauhaus at MoMA: Review Marcel Breuer’s tubular-steel chairs and the glass-walled buildings copied from Walter Gropius are everywhere. Can a retrospective on the Bauhaus -- the art school that nurtured such work -- say anything new?