Rafael Viñoly's exhibition scheme for Spring Masters New York, which will take place at the Park Avenue Armory in Manhattan, challenges art fairs’ status-quo rectangular grids. The Park Avenue Armory has long been a New York powerhouse. The 1881 behemoth was built for the Seventh Regiment of the National Guard with money donated by the city’s resident elite. Today the armory is a bastion of creative strength: as a venue for art and performances; subject of an ongoing restoration led by Herzog & de Meuron; and, later this spring, Rafael Viñoly’s laboratory. On April 30 Artvest Partners will launch Spring
The Ice Rink Cometh: At the heart of Brooklyn's Prospect Park, a new public recreation area updates and restores a section of the borough's revered green space.
When Focus Lighting carved a new office out of a trio of two-story 1910 retail buildings on a busy street in Harlem five years ago, principal Paul Gregory wanted the facility to be more than a functional workspace for ongoing projects.
Order in the Court: A multidisciplinary design team applies a light and skillful touch to restore luster to a faded Lower Manhattan landmark while bringing it up to current standards.
A multidisciplinary design team applies a light and skillful touch to restore luster to a faded Lower Manhattan landmark while bringing it up to current standards.
REX principal Joshua Prince-Ramus is renovating a Brutalist office building near Hudson Yards. For his firm’s first project in New York City, REX principal Joshua Prince-Ramus is giving an unloved Brutalist office building a $200 million makeover. The firm unveiled plans yesterday for the renovation of 450 West 33rd Street, a 16-story, pyramid-shaped edifice dating to 1969 in Midtown Manhattan.
“The public is invited into the process very late,” said Nicolai Ouroussoff, the architecture critic, referring to the decision by the Museum of Modern Art and its architects, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, to tear down the former home of the American Folk Art Museum, which stands in the way of MoMA’s recently announced expansion. And Ouroussoff was right: Eight hundred people turned out for what was, in effect, a town hall meeting on the demolition of the Tod Williams Billie Tsien building, which heated up a Manhattan auditorium on a very cold night. But then, after nearly two hours of