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When the National September 11 Memorial opens at Ground Zero on the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks, it will be joined by another commemorative effort, across the Hudson River, in Jersey City, New Jersey.

September 2011 GROUND ZERO is a buzzing hive of activity ' cranes and construction everywhere, crowds of tourists and vendors. Projects are shaping up, too. David Childs's One World Trade Center (WTC) ' the erstwhile 'Freedom Tower' ' has passed 78 stories en route to 104, the Fumihiko Maki tower at the southeast corner of the site is more than 30 and heading for 72, and the National September 11 Memorial opens this month. Although Santiago Calatrava’s bony train station — morphed by budget cuts, according to wags, from bird to stegosaurus — has yet to emerge from the ground,

Under Mayor Bloomberg, New York City planners launched an aggressive initiative to compete in the global economy.

Photo ' Iwan Baan for Architectural Record Photo ' James Ewing This special section of RECORD is unabashedly devoted to New York City. We are not just commemorating the 10th anniversary of September 11. We want to give the city its due as a 21st-century design capital. There are more architects here than in any other U.S. city, but for decades, New York didn’t construct many innovative buildings. The city was a think tank for architecture — with its schools, institutes, and critics — a crucible for big ideas that got built elsewhere, if at all. About ten years ago,

New York New York champions design in municipal projects from fire stations and garages to libraries and courthouses. Photo © Nicholas Buccalo Click the image above to view recent civic projects in New York City. Click the image above to view recent civic projects in New York City. Located in Hunters Point — a formerly industrial neighborhood in the midst of a transformation every bit as sweeping as its view of Manhattan across the East River — a new branch of the Queens Public Library, designed by Steven Holl Architects, will be the jewel in a crown of several projects

New York City Spurred by city funds, arts organizations have built and expanded all over town Photo by Jeff Mermelstein Click the image above to view a slide show of New York's new arts spaces. In the last decade, the New York building boom spread to museums and performing arts organizations, with the construction or renovation of facilities all over the city. Thanks to years of a strong economy, there were generous private donors. But there was also a new patron for capital funds: the city itself. In 1998, then-Mayor Rudolph Giuliani announced the city would pay 10 percent of

Bronx, New York New parks are opening and old parks are being revitalized at a pace not seen since Robert Moses’s heyday. Photo by Jeff Mermelstein Click the image above to view a slide show of New York's new parks and public spaces. The corner of 157th Street and River Avenue in the Bronx, just south of Yankee Stadium, is a good place to examine the results of New York City's decade-long park-building binge. var so = new FlashObject ("http://construction.pb.feedroom.com/pb-comp/construction/custom1/player.swf", "player", "299", "196", "8", "#FFFFFF"); so.addVariable ("SkinName", "custom4"); so.addVariable ("SiteID", "construction"); so.addVariable ("SiteName", "Construction Online"); so.addVariable ("ChannelID", "7f3712edd53c963f8d8ddbb6e6a663e0f27d9bae"); so.addVariable ("StoryID",

High-profile architects define the new New York City apartment house with arresting designs.

A collaboration between an architect and an artist results in an intriguing two-part memorial in Norway.

“We have a saying in our office,” says Andre Santer, project architect at Berlin-based J. Mayer H. Architects. “Democracy follows form.