Articles Tagged with ''New York City''

Jahn and Walker's Plan for Hudson Yards Victorious

March 27, 2008

Developer Tishman Speyer won rights to develop Manhattan’s Hudson Rail Yards with a scheme designed by architect Helmut Jahn and landscape architect Peter Walker. Announced yesterday, the deal is expected to be formalized within 14 days.

Arario Gallery by Adjaye Associates

New York City

David Sokol

March 19, 2008

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David Adjaye divides a former warehouse floor into the domestically scaled rooms of Arario Gallery.

Behind SANAA's Illusion of Weightlessness

Joann Gonchar, FAIA

March 16, 2008

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Now that the New Museum on Manhattan’s Lower East Side is complete, and its structure enclosed, there is little evidence of the system that supports the seven-story building that seems to be made up of nothing heavier than precariously stacked cardboard boxes.

New Museum of Contemporary Art by SANAA

New York City

Clifford A. Pearson

March 1, 2008

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At New York's smart New Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo-based SANAA creates an ambiguous icon for an area in transition.

The New York Times Building

Renzo Piano Building Workshop and FXFOWLE present a quietly luminous addition to the Manhattan skyline with The New York Times Building.

Suzanne Stephens

February 19, 2008

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In the past few years, New York City has been valiantly trying to turn around its deserved reputation for treating innovative architecture like an exotic disease that should be stamped out by courageous developers, bankers, and government officials.

The New York Times Building

Sara Hart

February 19, 2008

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New York City Renzo Piano Building Workshop with FXFOWLE Curtain-wall ingenuity eliminates the fear factor Fear factor. That was the obstacle the New York Times and its New York–based architect, FXFOWLE, faced when it was time to bid the curtain wall for the media giant’s new headquarters in Midtown Manhattan. Design architect Renzo Piano conceived of a brise-soleil made of horizontal rods to project 18 inches from the curtain wall. Simple in concept, confounding in execution, when one imagines finding a strategy that would work for a 52-story tower. “While this approach has been achieved on a smaller scale in

Provoking Magic: Lighting of Ingo Maurer

In a show of magical thinking, the Cooper-Hewitt surveys Ingo Maurer.

David Sokol

February 19, 2008

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Although the Cooper-Hewitt exhibition “Provoking Magic: Lighting of Ingo Maurer” represents less than one-third of the German designer’s oeuvre, the show’s 53 pieces reveal the staggering breadth of Maurer’s imagination.

New York Public Library - Mulberry Street Branch - Building Types Study

Rogers Marvel Architects inserts a grand stair into an old loft floor, allowing light to penetrate into two subterranean levels.

January 18, 2008

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During the 1970s, artists transformed light industrial buildings in New York City’s SoHo district into studios and residences.

SANAA's New Museum Opens in NYC

Alec Appelbaum

November 29, 2007

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The design for the New Museum, which the Tokyo-based firm Sejima + Nishizawa/Sanaa first revealed in 2003 for New York City’s only all-contemporary art institution, layers six off-kilter white boxes above a formerly grungy block on the Lower East Side.

Peter Marino and I. M. Pei Design Hotel Room With a $30,000 View

Jenna M. McKnight

November 7, 2007

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The Four Seasons Hotel New York has unveiled its new 4,300-square-foot penthouse suite with nine rooms, ceiling heights up to 25 feet, and breathtaking city views.

Credits: 1 AIA LU/HSW; 1 AIBD P-CE; 0.1 ICC CEU

Upon course completion, participants will possess a deeper understanding of glass railings to help ensure that safety, aesthetic, and performance objectives are achieved.

Credits: 1 AIA LU/HSW; 1 AIBD P-CE; 0.1 ICC CEU

Explore how propane-powered systems and whole-home generators can improve energy resilience, reduce electrical loads, and lower long-term residential costs.