https://www.architecturalrecord.com/rss/2300 en-us http://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/17305 Mon, 13 Jan 2025 00:31:12 -0500 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/17305-lever-architecture-and-field-operations-marries-the-pastoral-to-the-corporate-for-nbcuniversals-la-campus http://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/16670 Mon, 08 Jan 2024 00:04:00 -0500 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/16670-field-operations-tackles-a-wild-and-strange-park-on-staten-island Designed by SOM and James Corner Field Operations, the dual-bridge High Line – Moynihan Connector marks the latest chapter in the ongoing development of the Far West Side.

]]> http://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/16339 Fri, 23 Jun 2023 08:21:03 -0400 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/16339-manhattan-gains-an-elevated-pedestrian-path-linking-the-high-line-with-moynihan-train-hall http://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/16230 Thu, 27 Apr 2023 17:27:28 -0400 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/16230-dallas-museum-of-art-announces-shortlist-for-international-design-competition Dallas-Museum-of-Art-Finalists-2.jpg Dallas Museum of Art (in July 2015), edited. Photo by Michael Barera, CC BY-SA 4.0, https: creativecommons.org licenses by-sa 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Dallas-Museum-of-Art-Finalists-1.jpg Dallas Museum of Art. Photo by arcticpenguin, via Flickr http://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/15987 Mon, 19 Dec 2022 13:32:52 -0500 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/15987-oma-completes-yin-and-yang-towers-on-the-brooklyn-waterfront OMA-Greenpoint-2.webp OMA's project in Brooklyn's Greenpoint neighborhood consists of two high-rises with a seven-story midrise sandwiched between them. Photo by Jason O'Rear OMA-Greenpoint-1.jpg There are four cantilevers of 24 feet each on the Eagle tower. Photo by Jason O'Rear OMA-Greenpoint-3.webp Eight by eight feet windows offer commanding views from the apartments. Photo by John Cole OMA-Greenpoint-4.webp Generous amenity spaces feature ceiling heights of up to 30 feet. Photo by Jason O'Rear At the heart of the Minnesota mall, pedestrians might gather, find respite, or take a selfie underneath the LEDs.

]]> http://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/14200 Mon, 12 Aug 2019 09:00:00 -0400 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/14200-nicollet-mall-in-minneapolis The design team created welcoming public spaces: a reading “room” (shown) with floor-lamp-style fixtures, and a two-block-long mirror-topped trellis outlined with light. Photo © John Muggenborg The design team created welcoming public spaces: a reading “room” with floor-lamp-style fixtures, and a two-block-long mirror-topped trellis (shown) outlined with light. Photo © John Muggenborg Street poles feature color-changing beacons, small floodlights, and sculptural lanterns. Photo © John Muggenborg Photo © John Muggenborg The Spur has just opened on the south edge of Hudson Yards.

]]> http://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/14130 Fri, 07 Jun 2019 09:00:00 -0400 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/14130-lush-hillock-and-public-art-plinth-culminate-nycs-high-line “Brick House” by Simone Leigh, is a monumental bronze bust of an African-American woman presiding above the traffic-clogged cacophony of 10th Avenue. Photo © Timothy Schenck A passage through the piers culminates in a mass of trees planted on a steeply sloped hillock. As it continues, it slices through the hillock, walled by thick sheets of weathering steel. Photo © Timothy Schenck Delicate wood-floored balconies project over the sidewalk below, offering kaleidoscopic views of the surroundings and a look back along the original High Line. Photo © Liz Ligon The monumental broze bust sits in a surprisingly welcome open plaza. Photo © Liz Ligon The entire 1.4-mile park, with its elevated vistas of the surrounding city, draws millions of visitors every year to the improbable wild garden planted on the old viaduct. Photo © Liz Ligon A central grouping of buildings creates a gateway and support system for 4,500 acres of parkland in Memphis.

]]> http://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/13576 Wed, 01 Aug 2018 08:00:00 -0400 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/13576-shelby-farms-park-by-james-corner-field-operations-and-marlon-blackwell-architects As the final piece of a transformative master plan for the larger nature and recreation area, the 275-acre Heart of the Park developed as a procession of structures along the expanded Hyde Lake. Photo © Timothy Hursley Photo © Timothy Hursley A picnic pavilion is little more than a standing-seam roof on a steel frame. Photo © Timothy Hursley For the boathouse, aluminum bar grating forms a ventilated vitrine for kayaks. Photo © Timothy Hursley The same material clads the visitors center, exposing the structure above the cantilever, which shades a deep porch. Photo © Timothy Hursley Aluminum bar grating clads the visitors center, exposing the structure above the cantilever, which shades a deep porch. Photo © Timothy Hursley Visitors exercise on and around Hyde Lake. Photo © Timothy Hursley All the new buildings function as porches. The metal-clad and cypress-lined stage pavilion provides shade even when it is not hosting events for audiences as large as 20,000 on the lakeside lawn. Photo © Timothy Hursley The building that holds the Kitchen restaurant and event space employs the same materials, as well as stone, for its spacious open-air dining room. Photo © Timothy Hursley 1808-James-Corner-Field-Operations-Marlon-Blackwell-Architects-Memphis-Shelby-Farms-Park-10.jpg Photo © Timothy Hursley 1808-James-Corner-Field-Operations-Marlon-Blackwell-Architects-Memphis-Shelby-Farms-Park-11.jpg Photo © Timothy Hursley 1808-James-Corner-Field-Operations-Marlon-Blackwell-Architects-Memphis-Shelby-Farms-Park-12.jpg Photo © Timothy Hursley 1808-James-Corner-Field-Operations-Marlon-Blackwell-Architects-Memphis-Shelby-Farms-Park-13.jpg Photo © Timothy Hursley 1808-James-Corner-Field-Operations-Marlon-Blackwell-Architects-Memphis-Shelby-Farms-Park-14.jpg Photo © Timothy Hursley A waterfront park on the site of an abandoned sugar factory pumps up a once barren post-industrial neighborhood in New York.

]]> http://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/13586 Wed, 01 Aug 2018 07:59:00 -0400 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/13586-domino-park-by-james-corner-field-operations Inaccessible to New Yorkers for over a century, the erstwhile Domino Sugar plant’s sweeping waterfront now connects to the neighborhood. JCFO transformed the once dilapidated pier into a quarter-mile long esplanade anchored by the original 1882 refinery building. Photo © Daniel Levin Salvaged factory artifacts are woven into the fabric of the park, which features nearly 175 different species of trees. Photo © Daniel Levin The park is rooted in the site’s industrial past. Two gantry cranes signal the park’s presence and serve as the base of an elevated promenade, a reference to the catwalks connecting the original factory buildings. Photo © Daniel Levin The walkway is supported by steel columns from the demolished Raw Sugar Warehouse. Photo © Daniel Levin Image courtesy James Corner Field Operations The much-anticipated park, designed by James Corner Field Operations, will open six acres of the Brooklyn waterfront to the public.

]]> http://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/13479 Wed, 06 Jun 2018 11:56:00 -0400 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/13479-williamsburgs-new-domino-park-opens-this-weekend Photo © Daniel Levin Photo © Daniel Levin Photo © Daniel Levin Photo © Daniel Levin Photo © Daniel Levin Photo © Daniel Levin Photo © Daniel Levin Photo © Daniel Levin Photo © Daniel Levin goncharj@bnpmedia.com (Joann Gonchar, FAIA) “The idea was to create a ribbon in the middle of the canyon,” says Hervé Descottes, principal of L’Observatoire International, about the High Line project.

]]> http://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/11820 Mon, 01 Aug 2016 09:00:00 -0400 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/11820-dark-sky-design-the-high-line The High Line | Diller Scofidio + Renfro Photo © Studio Dubuisson Photo © Studio Dubuisson goncharj@bnpmedia.com (Joann Gonchar, FAIA) After the London 2012 Summer Olympics, lighting design firms Speirs + Major and Michael Grubb Studio worked with landscape architect James Corner Field Operations to transform what had been an open concourse in the Olympic Park into a 1,600-foot-long promenade.

]]> http://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/11818 Mon, 01 Aug 2016 09:00:00 -0400 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/11818-dark-sky-design-queen-elizabeth-olympic-park Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park | Speirs + Major & Michael Grubb Studio Photo © James Newton Photo © James Newton