Articles Tagged with ''New York City''

Big, splendid and very expensive (mere art lovers may buy a drink at the bar), the new restaurant in the Seagram building is called The Four Seasons.

The renowned piano manufacturer Steinway & Sons recently moved its flagship, Steinway Hall, from the Beaux- Arts New York City landmark it called home for 90 years to a modern Midtown skyscraper. The upshot is a project that will illuminate its brand for 21st-century clientele.

After more than four decades, a congregation in New York finally gets a synagogue taliored to its needs.

Eclectic and eccentric, with influences that range from Islamic to Celtic to Japanese, the Veteran’s Room at the Park Avenue Armory was reopened to the public in March as an intimate space for lectures and recitals.

The New York architecture community has been in a swivet since the posting of an article titled “MoMA to Abolish Architecture and Design Galleries” in Architects Newspaper on April 12.

Architects often find competitions — which require large amounts of work for little or no pay – exploitative. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey did little to improve that situation when, on March 11, it announced a competition to replace Manhattan’s 65-year old Port Authority Bus Terminal.

A spiraling staircase is the centerpiece of the new Barney’s Chelsea.

A traveling exhibition, now closed, is well documented in a book of the same name.