Articles Tagged with ''New York City''

NYC Airports to Receive Major Improvements

September 21, 2015

A slew of airportment improvements—some controversial—are headed for New York City over the next several years. Image courtesy Beyer Blinder Belle The only rendering of the proposed TWA Flight Center Hotel, designed by Beyer Blinder Belle, shows very little of the future structure except two six-story volumes behind Saarinen’s winglike forms. New York will see a slew of airport improvements in the next few years and, surprisingly, the only one not causing controversy is a $48 million terminal for animals known as the Ark. The same can’t be said for the other two projects—a $4 billion reconstruction of LaGuardia Airport

Rebecca Seidel

September 17, 2015

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With 19th-century grandeur and 21st-century upgrades, the cathedral awaits the Pope's arrival next week.

The New York Edition Hotel by Ian Schrager and the Rockwell Group

New York City

Suzanne Stephens

September 16, 2015

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The New York Edition hotel revitalizes an historic skyscraper with an interior that glamorously fuses past and present.

Red Bull Studios and Office

Buzz generator: The Manhattan base for a global brand reflects its youthful vibe with a pair of dynamic environments animated by bursts of color and light.

Sarah Amelar

September 16, 2015

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The energy-drink company Red Bull (RB) tends to engage the public in unconventional ways. As it plunges into adventurous youth culture—extreme sports, high-risk aviation feats, edgy art and music—it’s never just paying to affix its logo to a Formula 1 racecar or a radical skydive.

Fata Morgana

Miriam Sitz

August 16, 2015

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Named for the visual phenomenon of a mirage suspended just above the horizon, the installation Fata Morgana by Brooklyn-based artist Teresita Fernández hovers above New York's Madison Square Park.

Riverside Health Center by 1100 Architect

New York City

Josephine Minutillo

June 16, 2015

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A community New York City health center's deteriorating building is resuscitated with a hardy dose of design.

BIG Unveils Redesign of Two World Trade Center

What is the status of the development of Two World Trade Center?

Anna Fixsen

June 9, 2015

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Today, architecture firm Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) showed off its new design for 2 World Trade Center—a gleaming, 1,340-foot-tall stack of seven glazed volumes—that will replace an earlier scheme by Foster + Partners.

Olafur Eliasson's LEGO Cityscape at the High Line

Anna Fixsen

May 29, 2015

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The latest iteration of Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson’s traveling work “The Collectivity Project” has opened to the public at the High Line in Manhattan: an imaginary LEGO cityscape that viewers are free to alter as they wish.

Josephine Minutillo

May 16, 2015

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Designed by Ralph Walker—heralded in a 1957 New York Times article as the “architect of the century” but long since fallen into obscurity—the 19-story, dramatically setbacked, and ornately detailed structure was originally built for the New York Telephone Company in 1930.

Whitney Museum of American Art by Renzo Piano Building Workshop

New York City

Clifford A. Pearson

May 16, 2015

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After failed attempts to add on to its iconic uptown venue, the Whitney builds a new home in Manhattan that reaches out to its neighbors.

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