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What role will architecture and landscapes play in the newly authorized park?

New York has seen an explosion in a new type of food experience: the marketplace. These are rather t amer versions of Spanish boqueria or bustling marketplaces the world over, with a very tightly controlled space and often high-end shops. Chelsea Market, Gotham West, Gansevoort Market, Berg’n, Brooklyn Night Bazaar, Hudson Eats, and an upcoming Anthony…

Chicago has been in the architectural news quite a bit lately. Image via art.newcity.com However, th e city might also be getting one other feather in its cap. Artist Matthew Haussler recently completed what might be the world’s longest hand-drawn picture maze, and its subject: Chicago’s lakefront. The 73 1/2 feet long by 3 feet tall…

You spend all day staring at screens. Wouldn’t it be nice to occasionally look up and see a friendly face? Going against the current tide of all-too-smart automated kitchens, Moscow-based designers Tanya Repina and Misha Repin go low-tech with LO-LO, a simple suite of wooden “microkitchen” units ideal for storing refreshments around the office. Each…

Hot on the heels of the appointment of Aaron Betsky as dean of the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Arch itecture, we’re excited to hear more news about America’s best-known architect: Ten of his masterpieces have been nominated to the United Nation’s World Heritage List. If selected, Wright’s works will join the likes of the Sydney…

Rejoice and be merry, for architects are on the rise again! Ok, that statement may be overselling it . Nonetheless, new statistics indicate that a key trio of design and construction sectors — architecture, landscape architecture, and engineering — is continuing a steady recovery following the global financial crisis of 2008. Figures released by the U.S.…

“The unhappy city contains a happy city unaware of its own existence,” wrote Italo Calvino in his ma sterpiece Invisible Cities. Beyond designing the Ecole Normale Supérieure Cachan in Paris and the Columbia University Campus Plan in New York City, architect Renzo Piano has spent last year looking for fragments of happy cities around Italian suburbs…

Wearable cameras and point-of-view videos have opened our eyes to all sorts of new angles of viewing , including an eagle-eye view of the French Alps as it soars down a valley, all sorts of extreme sports videos that make your heart skip a beat, what sculptures in museums see, and even the first Google Glass…

A small organic brewing operating in St. Paul, Minn., needed a unique architectural solution.