

The Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza has completed a residential high-rise at 611 West 56th Street in New York City, his first work in the United States. With a limestone cladding striking a contrast with its neighbors, the slender, 137-meter tower c
The Upper East Side in Manhattan is known since the early 20th century as the luxury residential area of culture. The project, located on the southeast corner of Lexington Avenue with Gramercy Park, remodels a penthouse gallery on the top floor of a
The investment bank and financial services holding company’s headquarters at 270 Park Avenue in Manhattan will, says Foster + Partners, be “New York City’s largest all-electric skyscraper with net zero operational emissions and will be 100% powered b
Designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro in collaboration with FXCollaborative, Henry R. Kravis Hall and David Geffen Hall – standing 11 and 8 floors, respectively – are two new facilities in the Manhattanville Campus of Columbia University Business Scho
The location was the original Pier 54, on Manhattan’s southwest riverside, where the survivors of the Titanic disaster docked. Together with his wife Diane von Furstenberg, Barry Diller had been a key supporter of the celebrated High Line Park in New
On the banks of the East River, a branch of the Queens Public Library addresses a call for community space in an almost exclusively residential neighborhood. The building, low and compact, takes up little ground, and makes the much used riverside par
All the spaces sit under a large sloped roof, almost a circle, that is supported by a grid of beams. The house is built into the slope for protection, with light flowing around and underneath. Space shifts horizontally and vertically through three l
The pitched roof extends 7.30 meters symmetrically covering the house’s two floors – the top one for parents, the lower one for children. Each space looks out to the lake through cutouts in the exterior cladding of corrugated cement panel with aggreg
Resting on a slab, this studio with an accessible flat roof is configured according to the needs and budget available. Right now there are three volumes, but more could be added or subtracted, or they could all even be moved to a different place...
Four features stand out in this series of cabins scattered within the woods: the folded weathering steel outside and the plywood interior, a slightly off-center stove, a large thick living roof landscaped like the surroundings, and their square windo
This six-story building is conceived as a collective place. A core of communications and kitchens/bathrooms divides the space in two. The ground level contains kitchen, dining room, a shared courtyard, and the bedrooms on the top floors...
With a form that is a pure expression of the function, the tower is divided into three stacked volumes, with the core placed to the rear. Standing alongside icons by Mies, Saarinen, and Johnson, it is the first office block to go up on Park Avenue in
The complex is built entirely with organic and biodegradable bricks made of corn stalks mixed with live fungal organisms, creating a light and porous wall that makes it possible for the pavilion to function as a bioclimatic building...
The location was the original Pier 54, on Manhattan’s southwest riverside, where the survivors of the Titanic disaster docked. Together with his wife Diane von Furstenberg, Barry Diller had been a key supporter of the celebrated High Line Park in New
The studio was commissioned by Related Companies in 2015 to design a new residential project in Chelsea, Manhattan, at West 18th Street. The site is split in half by the High Line, the elevated public park, and called for an inventive solution that w
The commission involved designing a public centerpiece for Hudson Yards, a new 11-hectare development on Manhattan’s west side being constructed above a huge rail yard. To create something memorable, the studio decided to build a structure that visit
Part of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York, the Juilliard School and Alice Tully Hall occupy a brutalist-style building carried out by the Italian architect Pietro Belluschi in 1969. Besides enlarging the built area, the renovation ai
The Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts was built in the 1960s as part of an urban renewal program for the Upper West Side, with buildings by architects like Gordon Bunshaft, Eero Saarinen, Wallace Harrison, and Philip Johnson. After forty years i
The museum of modern art has completed a renovation and expansion project that has effectively increased gallery space by as much as 30 % besides making the building more functional and improving its connection with the urban fabric. The expansion yi
Designed in collaboration with James Corner Field Operations and Piet Oudolf, The High Line is a 1.5-mile long public park built on an abandoned elevated railroad stretching from the Meatpacking District to the Hudson Rail Yards in Manhattan. When th
Inspirado en el Fun Palace de Cedric Price, el centro para artistas ‘The Shed’ responde a las exigencias de flexibilidad espacial mediante su gran cubierta de ETFE telescópica.
A continuous band of circulations and communal spaces rises along the south facade of the Roy and Diana Vagelos Education Center, located in Washington Heights district, within the Columbia University Medical Center campus. The 14-story tower houses
The firm Snøhetta has gotten the New York City Planning Commission’s go-ahead to create a public garden in the AT&T tower that went up in 1984 at 550 Madison Avenue in Midtown Manhattan, designed by Philip Johnson and John Burgee. The announcemen
Often referred to as the “Father of Landscape Architecture,” Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903) —alongside Calvert Vaux (1824-1895)— designed Central Park in the 1850s to be a democratic greenspace in a growing metropolis. That “sense of enlarged free
The world's skinniest skyscraper has been completed, adding a new landmark to Manhattan's famous skyline. Steinway Tower, or 111 West 57th Street, has a height-to-width ratio of 24:1, making it "the most slender skyscraper in the world," according to
The spectacle is capital to such a degree of accumulation that it becomes an image. (Guy Debord) As designer Thomas Heatherwick’s second privately commissioned folly opened in New York City in the summer of 2021, his first closed. The city’s newest g
There’s a new way to take in the skyline. For Kenzo Digital, a lifelong New Yorker who designed its dreamlike interior, the city was his muse. One Vanderbilt, a new construction at the corner of 42nd Street, opens its observation deck, SUMMIT. From f
The condo board at the supertall tower 432 Park Avenue, one of the most expensive addresses in the world, is suing the developers for $125 million in damages, citing multiple floods, faulty elevators, “intolerable” noise caused by building sway, and
Located on Manhattan's Billionaires' Row and steps from Central Park at 217 West 57th Street, this new architectural landmark, by Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture, rises 1,550 feet (472 meters) above New York City and houses 179 of the mo
That was the worst day in the city’s history, but it also spurred its transformation. The morning after the September 11th attacks, as exhausted first-responders looked for survivors in rubble still wreathed in smoke, New Yorkers braced themselves fo
Visitors to the structure, located in Manhattan’s Hudson Yards complex, will no longer be able to enter alone, but its protective barriers will not be raised. The Vessel, the labyrinth of staircases at Hudson Yards that closed four months ago after s
The bold presence of this work by OLI architecture, which at first glance looks like a warehouse in the middle of private property in New York state – clad in a charred accoya timber rainscreen meant to naturally patina over time – evokes the Serra s
Luis Fernández-Galiano was twice on a scholarship program of the Fundación Juan March – in Spain in 1976-1977 and abroad in 1966-1968 – but his first lecture at the foundation headquarters took place in 2010. In the course of a decade thereafter, he
The Frick Collection will launch Frick Madison, its temporary new home on Madison Avenue in Manhattan, on March 18. Visitors will be able to experience the beloved holdings of the Frick Collection, reframed in a completely new context. Frick Madison
The largest private development in U.S. history has attracted marquee companies, but is struggling with unsold luxury condos and a mall barren of shoppers. When Hudson Yards opened in 2019 as the largest private development in American history, it as
The Rafael Viñoly-designed 432 Park Avenue supertall tower, one of the wealthiest addresses in the world, faces some significant design problems, and other luxury high-rises may share its fate. The nearly 1,400-foot tower at 432 Park Avenue, briefly
Gov. Andrew Cuomo will propose a 1,200-foot elevated pathway that will lead to the new Penn Station development, to be financed by public and private funds. For more than a decade, the High Line, an elevated park that stretches for nearly a mile and
Cities that can shrug off a disaster can still fade if their economic base—and with it their tax revenues—suffers a structural shift. Again, New York has the history to prove it...
Before the first Dutch colonists sailed through the Narrows into New York Harbor, Manhattan was still what the Lenape, who had already lived here for centuries, called Mannahatta. Times Square was a forest with a beaver pond. The Jacob K. Javits Fede
We used to be fascinated with the future and newness, we are now scared of it and comforted by nostalgia. Before, we were obsessed with crafting beautiful objects and buildings, today we are much more concerned with raising issues and creating social
Rem Koolhaas at the Guggenheim. The colonization of the field.
The rural world is the future. So says the great guru of international architecture, Rem Koolhaas, in the major show that recently opened its doors in the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum on Fifth Avenue in New York. The title, ‘Countryside, the Future,’
A wit in the publicity department of the Museum of Modern Art suggested that the new MoMA was like a favourite golf course to which, to your surprise, nine holes had been added. At a cost of $450 million, the distinguished New York architectural firm
Get ready for Two World Trade Center, Version 3.0. Larry Silverstein and architect Norman Foster are working on major changes to Foster’s original vision for the still-unbuilt skyscraper, the developer tells The Post. Foster’s old design was scrapped
A proposal by the British architect David Chipperfield has won for him the competition to erect a high-rise replacing a building at the corner of Fifth Avenue and 53rd Street in New York City, a site that has been the US headquarters of the Swiss lux
New York has just seen the opening of the Museum of Modern Art renovation and expansion, carried out by the local firm Diller Scofidio + Renfro. Since Goodwin and Stone raised the original building in 1938, this is the fifth enlargement to be carried
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