New York Architecture

Creating the Post-Hipster City: In Conversation With Urbanist Aurash Khawarzad

Tida Tippapart | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: New York Around Town, New York Hipster, New York City Urban, New York Architecture, Aurash-Khawarzad, Urbanism, Brooklyn Hipster, New York City, New York Art, Culture News
Tida Tippapart

Committed to exploring the multiple intersections between art and urbanism, Aurash Khawarzad speaks about creating the post-Hipster city, gentrification, and what it means to (re)build New York City from the ground up.

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LOOK: Architect Designs Giant Mountains To Cover Ugly Roofs

Posted 04.06.2012

Read More: New York Architecture, Lower East Side, Manhattan Mountain, NY Around Town, Spura, Ju-Hyun Kim, Slidewide, Slidepollajax, New York Design, New York News

Forget trekking beyond city limits to get your board on. A new design crafted by architect Ju-Hyun Kim seeks to blanket the tops of buildings with ma...

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Interactive Valentine's Day Art In Times Square

AP | Posted 02.07.2012

Read More: Video, Heart, Times Square, Times Square Heart, New York Architecture, Big Architecture, Valentines Day, Valentine's Day, Big, Love, New York, Arts News

NEW YORK -- There's a giant red heart in the middle of New York City's Times Square that can measure love's pulse. Touch the heart and it starts to b...

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Mr. Jobs, Meet Jackie O

Paul Gunther | Posted 02.01.2012

Read More: Historic Preservation, Jacqueline Onassis, Technology, Apple, Grand Central Terminal, New York Architecture, Ny Architecture, Steve Jobs, Grand Central Apple, Apple Grand Central, Architecture New York, New York History, Arts News
Paul Gunther

The new Apple store in Grand Central Terminal is cultural memory writ large, resulting in a renewal of artistic appreciation for a place at risk of being taken for granted.

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Masters of the Postmodern Universe

J. Michael Welton | Posted 01.04.2012

Read More: Goldberger New Yorker, Postmodernism Architecture, New York Architecture, Postmodernism New York, Postmodernism Art, Paul Goldberger Art, Suzanne Stephens Art, Suzanne Stephens Architecture, New York Art, Architecture Checkerboard Films, Suzanne Stephens Nyc, New York News
J. Michael Welton

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Paul Needham

Mercedes House Adds A New Letter To New York's Alphabet

HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Needham | Posted 10.09.2011

Read More: New York Architecture, TEN Arquitectos, Apartments, Architecture, Mercedes House, Enrique Norten, Steven-Holl, Two Trees Management, Jed Walentas, New York, Steven Holl, NY Real Estate, Culture News

NEW YORK -- In 1980, when Steven Holl wrote "The Alphabetical City" in Pamphlet Architecture, he focused on how the shapes of nine letters -- T, I, U,...

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LOOK: 'Project Neon' To Catalogue City's Neon Signs

The Huffington Post | Christopher Mathias | Posted 09.11.2011

Read More: New York Architecture, Neon-Signs, New York Real Estate, Slidepollajax, NY Around Town, New York Around Town, Project Neon, NY Real Estate, New York News

Kirsten Hively is on a quest to find New York's best neon signs. Every week she goes to a new glowing Gotham establishment and posts a photo and story...

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Landmarking Urban Change in New York

Roberta Brandes Gratz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Climate Change, Historic Preservation, Urban Design, Social Change, New-Urbanism, Density, Modernist-Architecture, 2 Columbus Circle, New York Architecture, NY Culture, NY Real Estate, New York News
Roberta Brandes Gratz

New York City has become a city for the rich and the poor for national and local economic reasons that have nothing to do with preservation.

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George Maciunas: The Man Who Invented SoHo

Roslyn Bernstein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Slidepollajax, Illegal Living, Trisha Brown, George Maciunas, New York Architecture, Fluxhouse, Fluxus, John Lennon, Jonas Mekas, Soho, 80 Wooster Street, Yoko Ono, Uniqlo, Soho Artists, New York News
Roslyn Bernstein

The grand shopping mall that is SoHo was until recently the arts center of New York City, a neighborhood created by artist visionary George Maciunas.

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ARCHITECTURE: Humanitarian Architecture Exhibit Opens In NYC In October

Los Angeles Times | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New York Architecture, Humanitarian, New York Museum of Modern Art, Architecture, Architects, Exhibitions, Moma, Museum of Modern Art, Humanitarian Aid, MoMA NYC, Arts News

Even before the economic collapse of 2008, architects -- and young architects in particular -- had turned away from designing splashy new icons and to...

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Fifty Cities in Twenty Years

J. Michael Welton | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Architecture, Kohn Pedersen Fox, Som, Duda Paine, China, China World TradeCenter, Hok, New York Architecture, Chinese Architecture, Chinese Architects, City Planning, World News
J. Michael Welton

The Chinese people, their collective memory wiped clean by Mao's Cultural Revolution, need context for their new cities. Not surprisingly, American architects are swarming there.

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Architecture's Terror and Wonder: A Conversation with Blair Kamin

Guy Horton | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Infrastructure, Art, New York Architecture, Chicago Architecture, Urban Planning, Chicago, Architecture, Design, Barack Obama, New York City, Arts News
Guy Horton

Blair Kamin, Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture critic for the Chicago Tribune, thoughtfully and provocatively defines the emotional and cultural dim...

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Design Directs Everything

Alla Kazovsky | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Architecture, New York Architecture, Architecture New York, Design Directs Everything, Archtecture Design Film Festival, Style News
Alla Kazovsky

"Design Directs Everything" is the mantra of the first of its kind in the United States Architecture & Design Film Festival which opened in New York City last night.

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At Home in Manhattan: Park51 as Global Architecture

Guy Horton | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Architecture, Religion, Urban Design, Sustainable Design, park51, New York Architecture, Ground Zero Islamic Center, Arts News
Guy Horton

2010-10-11-park51slim.jpgThe most recent conceptual images of Park51 compellingly show a building that, if built, could be positioned amongst some of the finest examples of global architecture.

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Meal Periods: Steaks and the City

Michael McCarty | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Michael McCarty, New York Architecture, Debragga and Spitler, Michael's, Food News
Michael McCarty

"Oh, by the way, I've invited 13 people over for dinner tonight." That's my wife breaking the news to me on a Sunday morning after I've just flown in on a late-night flight from L.A.

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A Mad Look At 225 Lafayette Street

Nick Carr | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mad Magazine, Tales From the Crypt, Times Square, New York Architecture, Sotheby's, New York News
Nick Carr

Before it became overpriced condos, 225 Lafayette Street was a typical Manhattan office building with one very atypical tenant: Mad Magazine.

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Scouting a Crypt

Nick Carr | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Crypt, Harlem, Old Trinity Cemetery, New York Architecture, Scouting Ny, Church of the Intercession, New York News
Nick Carr

Nothing beats days when you're asked to scout something as unusual as a crypt.

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A Secret Courtyard Just Blocks From Times Square

Nick Carr | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New York City Apartments, Carriage House, Times Square, New York Architecture, Hell's Kitchen, Scouting Ny, Manhattan Architecture, New York News
Nick Carr

A beautiful secluded courtyard is located just a few blocks from Times Square.

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Friday Odds & Ends: Umbrella Graveyard, Batman, Dutch Kills, & More!

Nick Carr | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Leonard Lopate, Upper West Side, New York Architecture, Scouting Ny, Umbrella, New York News
Nick Carr

Here's my Friday assortment of random pictures I took during the past week. Including what can only be described as an umbrella graveyard at Mulberry & Prince.

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The Animal Building on East 67th Street

Nick Carr | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Upper East Side, Art Deco, New York Architecture, 67th Street, Scouting Ny, New York News
Nick Carr

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The Rooftop Cruise Ship... Wait, What?

Nick Carr | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Architecture, Seamen's Institute, New York Architecture, Seamen's Church, Pearl Street, Cruise Ship, New York News
Nick Carr

Look at the building on Water Street between Beekman & Peck Slip, and you'll see a rooftop structure that can only be described as cruise ship-inspired architecture.

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The Death of Theatre Alley (New York, You've Changed)

Nick Carr | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Manhattan, Short Films, New York Architecture, Filmmaking, Architecture, Coke, Alleys, Scouting Ny, Movies, Theatre Alley, New York News
Nick Carr

One of New York's rare archetypal dank alleys is no more -- all the buildings on one side have been torn down to make way for what I can only imagine will be a sterile high rise.

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Best Buildings Of The Decade (PHOTOS, POLL)

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Slidepoll, Dubai, New York Architecture, Cctv-Tower, World's Best Buildings, Beijing, Architecture, World Architecture, Burj Dubai, Buildings, World News

Every decade brings with it new buildings that stir the imagination and push the limits of what was sought possible in terms of design. In the slidesh...

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Open House New York Offers Free Access to Architectural Wonders This Weekend

Jane Levere | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Little Red Lighthouse, Brooklyn Navy Yard, Apollo Theater, High Line, Open-House-New-York, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Richard Meier, Tom Otterness, New York Architecture, New York News
Jane Levere

Free access to places you can't easily visit: everything from the Atlantic Avenue Tunnel, the world's oldest subway tunnel, to a museum of models of the work of the architect Richard Meier.

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New York Buildings: Eyesores Or Landmarks? (SLIDESHOW/POLL)

The Huffington Post | Cara Parks | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Slidepoll, New York Architecture, Guggenheim Museum, Verizon Building, Trump Soho, New York Slideshow, Atlantic Yards, U.N. Headquarters, Marriott Marquis Hotel, New York Eyesores, New York Buildings, Slideshow, New York News

New York City is known for its architecture, but with great successes come great failures. For every Statue of Liberty of Chrysler Building, there is ...

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