Nabbing the title from long-standing leader AECOM, Gensler claimed the top spot in our 2012 “Top 250 Architecture Firms” list, which ranks U.S. companies based on architectural revenue from the prior year.
Image courtesy Drexel University Plans call for restoring the stone-clad house and constructing a 4,600-square-foot addition. The building will double as an educational space and dorm. Image courtesy Drexel University The dwelling, built in 1872, has sat vacant since the late 1990s. Situated on a tree-lined street on the Drexel University campus in West Philadelphia, a stone-clad dwelling circa 1872 served as the Pi Lambda Phi fraternity house for three-plus decades. In the late 1990s, however, the university shuttered the residence following an arson incident. It has sat vacant ever since. Now, a student-run organization backed by faculty members is
Plans for a pyramid-shaped building on Manhattan's West Side are as ambitious as its young architect, Bjarke Ingels, 36, who recently opened a New York City office, the first outside his native Copenhagen.
Long Island City, Queens FXFOWLE, SHoP Architects, Ismael Leyva Architects Status: Under Construction Image courtesy NYC Economic Development Corporation Similar to many postindustrial districts, Hunters Point is undergoing a remarkable transformation. In the past decade, warehouses and factories in this Long Island City neighborhood have given way to glass towers and waterfront promenades. Now, construction has begun on a multiphase affordable housing complex that eventually will provide thousands of units for low- to middle-income tenants. The 30-acre development, Hunters Point South, is a key component of Bloomberg's New Housing Marketplace Plan, an $8.4 billion initiative to build 165,000 affordable housing
Staten Island James Corner Field Operations Status: Under construction Image courtesy James Corner Field Operations/City of New York In 1948, the City of New York opened the 2,200-acre Fresh Kills Landfill along a marshy shore of Staten Island. By 1955, it was the world’s largest waste depository — a claim to fame that infuriated the borough’s residents, who lobbied fiercely to close the stinky dump. At its peak, 29,000 tons of trash arrived daily. Image courtesy courtesy James Corner Field Operations/City of New York Environmental regulations ultimately led to the landfill’s closure in 2001. That same year, the city put
Midtown Manhattan Ateliers Jean Nouvel Status: Revised design under review Image courtesy Hines In early 2007, Hines purchased an empty lot on West 53rd Street from the Museum of Modern Art for $125 million. Soon after, the mega-developer unveiled its design for the 17,000-square-foot site: a slender, 75-story steel-framed skyscraper (pictured above) by French architect Jean Nouvel. Plans for 53 West 53rd, more commonly known as Tower Verre or the MoMA Tower, included 120 condominiums, a 100-room hotel, a restaurant, and 50,000 square feet of gallery space for MoMA. Most notably, the building was slated to rise 1,250 feet, which