“Untapped Capital” was the theme of this year’s Ideas City festival, the second iteration of a biennial series of urban-focused events organized by the New Museum in Manhattan.
As a new exhibition at New York's Center for Architecture explores the 26-acre development, RECORD spoke with Bill Pedersen, whose firm Kohn Pedersen Fox is responsible for its master plan. Design in the Heart of New York, an exhibition at the Center for Architecture in Manhattan, includes many new renderings of the Hudson Yards development.
A slew of high-profile architects and critics, including Annabelle Selldorf, Steven Holl, Wendy Evans Joseph, Thom Mayne, Richard Meier, Michael Sorkin, and Robert A.M. Stern, have joined the campaign to save the American Folk Art Museum building.
Five days after the Museum of Modern Art announced it would raze the former home of the American Folk Art Museum (which it purchased in 2011) for a planned expansion, the controversy continues to simmer.
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.
When CookFox Architects was going after a LEED Platinum rating for One Bryant Park, in New York (2009), its younger staff approached principals Rick Cook and Robert Fox.
