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Approaching from Gansevoort Street, one can’t help but anticipate the views from the stepped t erraces of the new Whitney Museum of American Art as its glazed-ziggurat aspect becomes a legible homage to the museum’s previous home, 3.3 miles to the northeast (as the crow flies), but a world away otherwise. If the iconic Breuer façade…
New York City continues to be one of the most coveted places in the world to develop, build, and buy property, yet the region is more and more strained every day. Infrastructure, housing, and employment continue to be of the utmost concern to city and state governments as they work to meet the demands of…
Tokyo – the city where radical architecture resides. No architects do it quite like the Japanese, wh o consistently upend formal conventions in an attempt to circumvent Tokyo’s idiosyncratic building regulations and react to the country’s unusual real estate economics. But these factors — building laws and financial drivers — only scratch the surface in terms…
Tomorrow, on April 16, after surviving the 10 plagues of delay — from hurricanes to the storms of lo cal politics — ground will be broken for the New York Wheel at the St. George tip of northern Staten Island. Opening is slated for summer 2017. Designed at a world record-setting 630 feet, the Wheel will…
When it comes to materials, Japanese maverick of modernism Sou Fujimoto is probably best known for h is use of snow-white steel members — impossibly slender beams and columns that lock together to form architecture that barely exists at all. His firm frequently veers into hyper-minimalism, framing space with skeletal structures that suggest a possibility of…
Despite approaching the grand old age of 80, Sir Norman Foster is showing no signs of resting on his laurels. His firm recently unveiled a wave of new projects which typify their unerring ability to work on the grandest of scales, with any kind of client: whether you are a private developer or a huge…
Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron are not your usual starchitects. Ever since rising to prominence 20 years ago, when they won the competition to transform Gilbert Scott’s Bankside Power Station into the iconic Tate Modern, they have reveled in the art of surprise. While many giants of the profession have honed their signature styles…
Some day soon, every day will be “Dollar Oyster Day,” thanks in part to architects. You never would think that oysters would become a demographic that designers came to rescue, but it is happening through a number of upcycling these days, both designed as temporary pavilions and through other initiatives. Oyster reefs once dominated the…
“Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter are fomenting the biggest revolution in architecture since the inv ention of steel, concrete, and the elevator. It is a media revolution.” Architizer cofounder Marc Kushner’s recent Op-Ed on how social media is changing the way we consume architecture felt all the more prophetic this week, as Facebook’s brand new headquarters in…