Last week, two years after its first occupants moved in, the owners of the 55-story office tower at New York City’s One Bryant Park celebrated the building’s official opening with a reception in the lobby.
Project Specs Armani/5th Avenue New York, USA Studio Fuksas Architects << Return to article the People Architect Studio Fuksas Architects Piazza del Monte de Pieta, 30 00186 Roma T: +39 06 6880 7871 F: +39 06 6880 7872 Personnel in architect's firm who should receive special credit: Interior designer: Studio Fuksas Engineer(s): Rosini Engineers Consultant(s) Lighting: Speirs and Major Associates General contractor: Americon Photographer: Ramon Prat, Alan Toft Renderer(s): SaMA CAD system, project management, or other software used: Autocad, Photoshop, Excel the Products
Lighting: Armani/5th Avenue Canada Line Mitchell Park Horticultural Conservatory New York, USA Studio Fuksas Architects Armani animates 5th Avenue On a crisp evening before Christmas, New York City’s Fifth Avenue was packed with shoppers hurrying to pick up last-minute gifts. The stores — appropriately decked out with the subtle signage and tasteful decorations mandated by the city for businesses here — beckoned customers with softly glittering LED bows, stars, and supersize trimmings. But none conveyed the dynamic aura of the year-old Armani/5th Avenue boutique, a four-story glass-enclosed box on the corner of 56th Street wrapped in a virtual blizzard of
Imagine New York City’s UN Headquarters building transported from its stuffy midtown location to a trendy downtown spot, kinked in the middle, rotated 90 degrees, and balanced over an elevated rail-line-cum-popular parkland and you’ve got the Standard New York.
Project Specs Standard New York New York, New York Polshek Partnership << Return to article the People Architect Polshek Partnership Architects 320 West 13th Street New York, NY 10014 212-807-7171 tel 212-807-5917 fax Todd Schliemann FAIA, Design Partner Kevin McClurkan AIA, Management Partner Megan Miller AIA, Project Architect Amy Lin AIA, Project Designer Tara Leibenhaut-Tyre AIA, Project Architect Michael O’Meara Frederick Tang Gary Anderson Darla Elsbernd John LaBombard Apichat Leungchaikul Saem Oh Jesse Peck Alan Slusarenko Maya Weissman-Ilan Interior designer(s): Shawn Hausman; Roman & Williams—Stephen Alesch, Principal Robin Standefer, Principal Eric Cheong, Project Manager Jennifer Dubas, Project Designer; André Balazs
Project Specs High Line New York James Corner Field Operations and Diller Scofidio + Renfro << Return to article the People Architect James Corner Field Operations 475 Tenth Avenue, 10th fl New York, NY 10018 Phone: 212 433 1450 Fax: 212 433 1451 Diller Scofidio + Renfro 601 West 26th Street, Suite 1815 New York, NY 10001 T: 212-260-7971 F: 212-260-7924 James Corner Field Operations Project Leader / Landscape Architecture / Urban Design James Corner, Lisa Switkin, Nahyun Hwang, Sierra Bainbridge, Tom Jost, Danilo Martic, Tatiana von Preussen, Maura Rockcastle, Tom Ryan, Lara Shihab-Eldin, Heeyeun Yoon, Hong Zhou Diller Scofidio
Hell’s Kitchen, a gritty, rapidly gentrifying district on Midtown Manhattan’s west side, buzzes with a mix of prewar residential and commercial buildings, Modern towers, hotels, theaters, and shops.
Smith Street, in Brooklyn, New York’s Carroll Gardens neighborhood, has evolved over the course of the past decade from a rugged urban commercial strip peppered with family shoe stores, bodegas, and windowless Italian social clubs, to the area’s restaurant row, playing host to a mix of both serious and theme-heavy establishments, from top-ranked restaurants run by ambitious chefs to a tiki bar named the Zombie Hut.