Image courtesy Silverstein Properties Photo ' Joe Woolhead Related Links: Death and Life of a Great American City New York After 9/11 On Wednesday, September 7, just days before the opening of the National September 11 Memorial in Lower Manhattan, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, master planner Daniel Libeskind, developer Larry Silverstein, and a host of other officials gathered at 7 World Trade Center to report on construction progress at the site. Almost a decade after the terrorist attacks, Silverstein was visibly pleased to tell a room filled with international press that, after many starts and stops, “every part of
Rogers Marvel Architects is designing the new, 2,000-square-foot space, which is slated to open in early 2012. Photo ' Carl Yost The NYC Center for Architecture is expanding. AIA New York recently signed a 10-year lease for the ground floor and basement of 532 Laguardia Place, a neighboring five-story brick building with rental apartments on the upper floors. The new space will add 2,000 square feet'1,200 at street level and 800 below'to the center's existing 12,000 square feet, a 16 percent increase. Related Links: AIA Philly Opens a Center for Architecture Dallas Center for Architecture: Lighting AIA's Center for Architecture
More than three decades after its inception, this planned community in Lower Manhattan is nearly complete. Photo ' Michael S. Yamashita/National Geographic Stock The master plan for Battery Park City was created in 1979. More than three decades later, this 92-acre development in Lower Manhattan is almost finished. As Tropical Storm Irene roared toward New York last week, Mayor Michael Bloomberg gave the order to evacuate Battery Park City (BPC), on the waterfront in Lower Manhattan. Now, as the development’s 13,000 residents make their way back, the largely unscathed neighborhood is about to pass a milestone. With two condominium towers
Photo ' Jenna M. McKnight 125th Street and Lenox Avenue. Click on slideshow button to view additional images. New additions to Harlem include the modern Parc Standard located on Frederick Douglass Boulevard. For much of the 20th century, private developers ignored Harlem, deterred by its high crime rate, profusion of subsidized housing, and long trek from Midtown. During the malaise of the 1970s, the city owned well over half of the real estate in this storied neighborhood, long regarded as the nation’s black cultural capital. Then, in the past decade, everything changed. As property values in other Manhattan districts soared,
MGM Resorts International intends to implode Foster + Partners’ unfinished Harmon Hotel due to “serious structural defects” and “public safety concerns,” the company announced on August 15. The news comes a month after the release of a report claiming the Las Vegas building was beyond repair. Photo courtesy Wikipedia MGM hopes to demolish the 28-story hotel. Related Links: Who's To Blame for Faulty Foster Tower? Foster's CityCenter Tower Pared DownCityCenter Coverage Demolition is not a sure bet, however. County officials have to approve the demolition plans. Plus, MGM would have to get a Clark County district court to overturn an
One of the replacement schools was a supermarket that had been empty for 10 years. Another structural conversion reconfigured a warehouse. The team selected materials based on availability and delivery time. It took just minutes for a tornado packing 200-mph winds to level a third of Joplin, Mo.'s public schools last spring. In a remarkable turnaround, it took less than three months to bring the schools back on line in time for the new school year. On Aug. 17, classroom sessions resumed on schedule in Joplin, even as construction crews continued cleaning up from the May 22 tornado, an EF5
Image courtesy Perkins + Will Shanghai Natural History Museum, Shanghai, China, Perkins + Will When it is completed at the end of 2012, Perkins + Will’s nautilus-shell-shaped Shanghai Natural History Museum will emerge from a proposed sculpture park and provide views of the surrounding city. Perkins + Will won the international competition in 2007 to design the museum, which will replace an existing natural history museum. The architects were inspired by the classical gardens in Suzhou with their water features, rock formations, and screened walls, which they abstracted in their design. “It’s important that the museum is in the old
Image courtesy WORKac New Holland Island in St. Petersburg, Russia, designed by WORKac. Click on the slideshow button to see more images. With a plan to create a park and transform existing warehouses into spaces for art, design, education, and commerce, WORK Architecture Company (WORKac) won an international competition to redesign New Holland Island in St. Petersburg, Russia. The 19.8-acre island, which Peter the Great developed as the country's first military port in 1721, will be opened to the public for the first time in its history. WORKac beat out David Chipperfield from London, MVRDV from Rotterdam, and Studio 44
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