Claude Dutson employs technology to snoop around the secretive headquarters of Silicon Valley, probing the methodological limits of proprietary architecture.

India Block reports on Citibin, the trash container pilot on the front line of New York City’s war on rats.

How architectural workers in the UK and US are unionising to resist the industry’s toxic culture of overwork and underpay.

MoMA curator Paola Antonelli on collecting code and their new exhibition, Never Alone: Video Games and Other Interactive Design.

Destiny Thomas asks what the unequal rollout of e-scooters in major American cities tell us about technology and racial equity.

Pinch punch, first of the month, it’s Design Line, with the Design Parade winners, senior leadership on the move at The Met, and drama in Ghana over David Adjaye’s landmark project.

She said no pickles. Kate Wagner mourns the loss of garish Hamburgler decor as McDonald’s revamps itself to fit with the trend for boring, brandless spaces.

An essay on the beheading of the Columbus statue in Boston’s North End and the political implications of monuments.