Articles Tagged with ''New York City''

The downtown boutique aesthetic that emerged in New York City’s SoHo loft district in the late 1970s caught on––and stuck around––largely because it showed off arty clothes to striking effect.

While growing up in Mumbai, India, during the 1970s and ’80s, Abhay Wadhwa had little idea that one day he would helm his own architectural lighting design firm based in New York City, he says.

Poised on the southern tip of Manhattan, just blocks from the World Trade Center redevelopment site, Battery Park is one of New York City’s oldest open public spaces along the Hudson River.

Brooklyn’s Julian Lwin takes a full-spectrum approach to lighting Photography courtesy While the Brooklyn, New York, neighborhood of Williamsburg is now the picture of urban cool, walking toward Marta and Julian Lwin’s loft offers a glimpse of the area’s seedier, not-so-distant past.

Kings County Hospital Center provides medical care to an underserved, largely uninsured patient population in the center of Brooklyn, N.Y.

An estimated 10,000 people walk through the entrance to New York City’s Bellevue Hospital every day, many of them surely unaware as they traverse Pei Cobb Freed & Partners’ new glass atrium that the hospital is one of the oldest in the Western Hemisphere.

A new boutique brings European style to the Big Apple.

Okay, where do we begin here?

The editors of Architectural Record asked me to write a piece because of a letter I wrote through email about what I thought should be done with the World Trade Center site.