Taking the edge off: A federal plaza with a controversial history undergoes another revolution, this one combining elements of a public square and a garden with a high level of craft.
Sitting in Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates' (MVVA) Jacob K. Javits Federal Building Plaza in downtown Manhattan, at Worth and Lafayette streets, you could forget that a former iteration of the quiet plaza sparked one of the most outsized controversies about public sculpture and artists' control over the fate of their work.
A 240-foot-long, sculptural white marble bar in the Stella 34 Trattoria sinuously snakes through the city-block-long new restaurant on the sixth floor of Macy's Herald Square in New York City.
The Art of the Matter: On the site of a former parking garage, Annabelle Selldorf creates a gallery building that exudes restrained drama and quiet rigor.
'It is special and ordinary at the same time,' says architect Annabelle Selldorf while standing on West 20th Street in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood.
In this issue of RECORD, we explore works of architecture as urban catalysts—buildings that raise the stakes for design in their neighborhoods while successfully engaging the surrounding context.
Game Changer: Columbia University's quirky but tough field house bridges the divide between its gritty surroundings and the athletic playing fields beyond.
There are few American campuses more urban than Columbia University's; even its athletic fields are in Manhattan, grouped together in the cramped Baker Athletics Complex at the island's northern tip.
The Museum of Modern Art in New York announced today that it has commissioned Diller Scofidio + Renfro to plan an expasion into the former site of the American Folk Art Museum.