First look inside the George Lucas Museum, 9/11 Toxic Air Cover-Up & Brad Pitt's Architecture Movie

<p>This week we get our first real look inside MAD Architects&#39; long-awaited Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, opening September 22nd in LA after a wild history that started in Chicago. We compare the polished press photos to the more candid, &quot;banal&quot; behind-the-scenes shots making the rounds — and talk about what actually happens when hype meets reality on a capital-A architecture project.</p><p>We also mark 9/11 with a look at a moving drone memorial over the NYC skyline, the debate over how younger generations relate to the day, and the bombshell records released by Mayor Mamdani confirming officials — including Giuliani — knew about toxic ground zero air and worked to cover it up.</p><p>From there: Brad Pitt is producing a film about Peter Zumthor directed by Wim Wenders (plus the real story on Brad&#39;s architecture background), the Empire State Building&#39;s surprisingly massive TikTok following, Archtober events to watch, Archisource&#39;s Drawing of the Year winners and what even counts as a &quot;drawing&quot; anymore, and why the architecture subreddit is full of people asking if the profession is dying.</p>