Studio Gang   United States   The 154-year-old American Museum of Natural History across the upper west side of Central Park has a new wing that establishes a fluid connection among the institution’s various buildings. The new educational programs of the AMNH are organized around

Herzog & de Meuron   United States   The Swiss firm Herzog & de Meuron was commissioned to restore the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Power Station, built in 1904, and transform it into an art manufacturing hub. In the 1950s, half the original structure – the Boiler House – was demolished.

OMA - Office for Metropolitan Architecture   United States   The flagship store of Tiffany & Co., the luxury jewelry and specialty design house, has reopened on Fifth Avenue in New York City, after completion of its first holistic renovation since opening in 1940. Shohei Shigematsu of OMA did the revamp an

Rafael Moneo Belén Moneo Jeffrey Brock   United States   The plot on which these laboratories are located was the last one available at Columbia University’s Morningside campus, and therefore the new gateway to the campus from its Manhattanville expansion. From the start it was decided that the new buildin

OMA - Office for Metropolitan Architecture   United States   In Greenpoint, the northernmost neighborhood of the New York City borough of Brooklyn, the development called Eagle + West presents two high-rises which complement one another and a smaller third building. The towers – rising 30 and 40 floors – inclu

Snøhetta   United States   “The non-building of the year.” That is how the grand dame of architectural criticism, Ada Louise Huxtable, dubbed the skyscraper – crowned like a piece of English furniture – that Philip Johnson raised in Midtown Manhattan in the 1980s, and which de

Bates Masi + Architects   United States   This home is located in Amagansett, an early English and Dutch settlement in Long Island. The site served as communal grazing pasture for the early settlers, who divided the land into parcels where farmers rotated their livestock from one parcel to t

Foster + Partners   United States   The 308-meter-tall office tower 50 Hudson Yards officially opened in Manhattan. The carefully planning of the minimized core and the section gives the flexibility needed to create new reconfigurations, with spaces free for columns and generous ceilin

Snøhetta   United States   On average, 330,000 people move through Times Square every day. Understanding the magnitude of these crowds and patterns of movement was fundamental to creating a new life for one of the most iconic public spaces in the world. The reconstruction radi

Álvaro Siza   United States   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

Adjaye Associates   United States   Located on 125th Street, one of Harlem’s main thoroughfares and co-named Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, the new building seeks to push the museum typology to a new place through a fresh approach to both displaying and receiving art. The main façad

Adjaye Associates   United States   Located in the Lower Manhattan financial district, near Tribeca and South Street Seaport, 130 William will rise 240 meters tall, making a bold architectural statement and a unique addition to Manhattan’s iconic skyline. The mixed-use high-rise is des

Adjaye Associates   United States   Part of an initiative of the non-profit developer Broadway Housing Communities, this mixed-use complex in the historic Sugar Hill district of Harlem sought to give the neighborhood new affordable housing options and also a cultural institution that w

Adjaye Associates   United States   This four-story building in Brooklyn houses the studios and offices of the artists Lorna Simpson and Jim Casebere. The front and side facades are clad in black polypropylene panels, while the rear is almost entirely made of glass. The canted profile

Tadao Ando   United States   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

Foster + Partners   United States   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

Diller Scofidio + Renfro   United States   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

Heatherwick Studio   United States   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

Steven Holl   United States   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

MOS Architects   United States   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

MOS Architects   United States   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

MOS Architects   United States   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... 

MOS Architects   United States   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

Perhaps because they came from trees, human beings have always had a yearning for heights. First there were the pyramids, the ziggurats, and the towers of Babel, stairs up which to climb to the heavens in pursuit of the gods. Then came the spires of

At the base of the residential high-rise at 56 Leonard Street in New York, a work of Herzog & de Meuron, is this permanent sculpture of stainless steel by the artist Anish Kapoor. Seemingly squashed by a 250-meter-tall building, the 15-meter-long, 6-

In obstinate resistance to real estate speculation, the small early 20th-century St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church stood in the vicinity of the World Trade Center like an anachronistic residue of 1920s Manhattan, but was completely destroyed in the

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

CNN   Lydia Armstrong   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

Patrick Templeton   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

The New York Times   Alyson Krueger   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 New York Times   Stefanos Chen   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

Central Park Tower   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

In New York, in line with the twentieth anniversary of 9/11, the Santiago Calatrava-designed St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church was lit for the first time. The original temple was totally destroyed when Tower 2 of the World Trade Center collapsed. Pr

The Economist   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

The New York Times   Michael Gold   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

Forbes   Jane Levere   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 New York Times   Matthew Haag   Dana Rubinstein   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 New York Times   Stefanos Chen   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

The New York Times   Mihir Zaveri   Daniel E. Slotnik   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

The Economist   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...

The New York Times   Michael Kimmelman   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

Vladimir Belogolovsky   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,’

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