270 x 405 mm, 48 pages (staple bound), plus 32 page supplement

New York, US

Bimonthly

First published in 2019

Editor: Samuel Medina

Art director: Laura Coombs

Cover: Sean Suchara

Tall and slim (much like a skyscraper...), NYRA naturally ‘reviews architecture in New York,’ featuring opiniated columns, essays, criticism and more, beginning with an always enjoyable Letters to the Editors section (yes, this is a magazine that gets a repsonse from its readers!)

Smartly redesigned in 2022—its newsprint pages and slab serif typography Interview-esque—you’ll find plenty of visual character to go alongside the sharp writing (not least the illustrated rodent mascot, seen here in a prescient image of NY snow.

Inside this 50th anniversary issue, Norman Foster’s massive new JP Morgans Manhattan HQ is assessed from two angles, museum architecture is questionned via two new museums (The Princetown University Art Museum and Harlem’s Studio Museum), and a host of book reviews include a lengthy review of ‘The Alienation Effect: How Central European Émigrés Transformed the British 20th Century.’

Plus a special supplement; NYRA’s guide to NYC brings together 50 buildings in the city that are, ‘off the well-trodden path of canonized skyscrapers and touristic landmarks.’

On the Journal
At Work With Samuel Medina: ‘It’s important to us that NYRA feels rooted in New York City, by which I don’t just mean Manhattan or North Brooklyn but also Queens, the Bronx, the rest of Kings County, even Staten Island (within limits). We tend to prioritize working writers over academics or practicing designers, but we’re interested in working with anyone who can write creatively and critically about the city.’
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