Bannerman's Castle was already an enigmatic ruin in the middle of the Hudson River, but then in the silence of last Saturday night, a large chunk of h...
The Washington Post | Posted 12.27.2009 | Home
Architecture is symbiotically linked to the flow of money, and so it was a topsy-turvy decade, beginning in exuberance, and ending with talk that perh...
Posted 12.19.2009 | World
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...
Evelyn Leopold | Posted 12.15.2009 | New York
The bustling corridors of the UN are quiet. There are no lines in the cafeteria as the campus is being steadily dismantled in the 39-floor high-rise glass tower on New York's East River.
Cameron Sinclair | Posted 12.07.2009 | Impact
Architecture for Humanity has spent the last decade building a more sustainable future using the power of design.
Cameron Sinclair | Posted 12.03.2009 | World
The recent vote by the people of Switzerland to ban minarets is at best misguided, at worst downright racism. Architecture is a political act. What, where and how we build is affected by politics, but this is beyond the pale.
Robert M. Edsel | Posted 12.01.2009 | Books
I am driven by my passion to tell the story of a group of men and women who volunteered for service during World War II to save the greatest structures and other priceless works of art from destruction.
Jerry Zezima | Posted 11.25.2009 | Living
The braces on my teeth ought to be called the Great Project of Geezer. This architectural marvel has been engineered and constructed by Dr. Ben Murray, an orthodontic resident at the Stony Brook University.
Doree Lewak | Posted 11.13.2009 | New York
The fourth NYC Apple retail store is launching this weekend, this time on the UWS, raising the unavoidable question: has anyone actually gotten laid from the launch of an Apple store?
Dornob Design | Posted 11.13.2009 | Green
More than just its composite materials, however, built-in grooves are designed to funnel water for gardening or even long-term underground storage....
Cameron Sinclair | Posted 11.10.2009 | Impact
Through Architecture For Humanity's "Do A Latte Good" campaign, you can bid on coffee with one of our great supporters, and in return they'll contribute to help reconstruction efforts post-Typhoon Ketsana.
Shelterpop | Jaime Derringer | Posted 11.01.2009 | Technology
The brand new Facebook offices in Palo Alto, California got the designer treatment from Studio O+A architects....
Tiffany Persons | Posted 11.04.2009 | Impact
In 2006, I saw an article about earth-bag building. I was thrilled that we could use this method for the schoolhouse we were planning to build in Sierra Leone. But then our plans changed.
Huffington Post | Victoria Fine | Posted 10.23.2009 | Impact
Starting this week, New York Magazine reported, a newly formed group of do-gooder designers are launching a project to lend worthy social projects som...
Matt Rodigheri | Posted 10.19.2009 | New York
A slideshow from the Saturday March by Develop, Don't Destroy Brooklyn.
Posted 10.21.2009 | Technology
An underwater luxury hotel. A farm suspended over New York City. A rotating skyscraper. Impossible? No. The stuff of dreams? Definitely. We've p...
Mark Mennin | Posted 10.14.2009 | Green
The production of plastics, a synthetic, may be greener than the overall impact from fashioning art out of wood, what would seem to be the most organic material.
Posted 10.09.2009 | New York
This weekend marks the 7th Annual Open House New York, when the city opens its doors to the public, giving free tours of some of its most famed archit...
Huffington Post | Gazelle Emami | Posted 10.12.2009 | New York
This weekend marks the 7th Annual Open House New York, when the city opens its doors to the public, giving free tours of some of its most famed archit...
A. Siegel | Posted 10.10.2009 | Green
The Solar Decathlon is a biennial, ever-cool event, pitting colleges and universities across the nation in ten contests that "center on the ways we use energy in our daily lives."
Nick Carr | Posted 10.07.2009 | New York
When we last left off, Travis Bickle was cruising through Times Square. We then catch him uptown as he makes a drop off at the Hotel Olcott at 27 West 72nd Street.
Eric Bricker | Posted 10.05.2009 | Entertainment
I met the photographer Julius Shulman by chance in the spring of 1999. Unbeknownst to me, that meeting would open a hidden portal to Los Angeles, forever altering the course of my life.
Ecofabulous | Posted 11.25.2009 | Green
Guest post from Ecofabulous Ever since Jack Johnson turned "reduce, reuse, recycle" into something you hum on your morning commute, people have been ...
WebEcoist | Steph | Posted 11.22.2009 | Green
With a burgeoning global population that has ever-growing needs for both food and housing, many architects are looking up for sustainable solutions th...
nytimes.com | Leora Broydo Vestel | Posted 11.18.2009 | Green
The company is aiming to become the first mass producer of what is known in green building circles as "net zero energy homes" - those that generate en...
nytimes.com | LIZ ROBBINS | Posted 12.30.2009 | New York