As a new breed of super tall and super skinny towers rise in Midtown, Manhattan, local residents, politicians, and activists are increasingly worried that these gargantuan glass structures will cast long shadows over Central Park.
Stephen Johnson created synthetic dough for this colorful tabletop in the new Play collection for Decode. Product designers descended on New York last week for NYCxDESIGN, an annual week-long celebration of design in May that includes the International Contemporary Furniture Fair, WantedDesign, BKLYN Designs and dozens of other events and showcases in warehouses, galleries, showrooms, and studios throughout the city. RECORD's team scouted the venues for the best and most interesting product innovations. Click the image above to view a slide show of our favorites. Rita Catinella Orrell writes about product design at designythings.com and architectstoybox.com.
Dedicated to the campus police officer killed by the Tsarnaev brothers as they fled, the Sean Collier Memorial is both a poetic sculptural form and an amazing feat of engineering and technology.
Image courtesy El Puente Organizations such as Brooklyn’s El Puente will benefit from New York’s proposed cultural plan. When people call New York a cultural capital, they’re probably thinking of the Met, Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall—not El Puente, a South Williamsburg–based center for Latino arts and culture, or Arts East New York, a hive of visual and performing arts in Brooklyn. That may soon change. Such less known but vital elements of the city’s cultural life will get a boost—as will arts education in public schools and individual artists—when legislation mandating the creation of a comprehensive citywide cultural plan, passed
Dharahara Tower in Kathmandu is just one of many historic monuments destroyed in Nepal’s recent earthquake. Dozens of visitors were killed in its collapse.
Painted by James McNeill Whistler in the 1870s, the Peacock Room, on display in the Freer Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., is one of the most celebrated interiors in history. Decorations in teal and gold swirl over every surface—even the ceiling and shutters. Now, in a twist worthy of The Picture of Dorian Gray, the Peacock Room has acquired a doppelganger. New York-based artist Darren Waterston has made a full-scale, warped replica of Whistler’s masterpiece, with broken shelves, smashed pottery, and gold paint pooled on the floor. This dark homage, called “Filthy Lucre,” is the heart of a larger
Architectural Record's Advertising Excellence Awards architect jury. On Friday, May 15, architects, product representatives, and advertising professionals gathered over breakfast at the iconic John Portman-designed Marriott Marquis in downtown Atlanta for the announcement of Architectural Record’s annual Advertising Excellence Awards. The awards, now in their 19th year, honor the most compelling building product advertisements in the magazine’s pages—both print and digital—as well as the companies that design them. “Getting an architect’s attention is a special challenge for advertisers,” said RECORD publisher Laura Viscusi. “Our program recognizes those advertisers who have successfully met that challenge with advertising that has both visual appeal and
The construction recovery in the retail sector has not kept pace with the improvement in other commercial markets, due to weak consumer confidence and the growing popularity of online shopping. Click on the image above to view a full presentation of these stats [PDF].
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