News: construction is set to recommence on 56 Leonard Street, a 250-metre-high residential tower in New York designed by architects Herzog & de Meuron and dubbed the "Jenga building". More »
Tag: New York
Work to restart on Herzog & de Meuron's
Foster + Partners to build Park Avenue skyscraper
for Lehman Brothers
News: Foster + Partners has won a competition to design a 200-metre skyscraper for collapsed investment bank Lehman Brothers Holdings and partner L&L Holding Company on Park Avenue in New York. More »
Brooklyn's Barclays Center
opens
News: Barclays Center, a 19,000-seat indoor sports arena designed by SHoP Architects and AECOM, opens to the public in Brooklyn this weekend. More »
"The High Line has become a tourist-clogged
catwalk"- New York Times
Dezeen Wire: "the High Line has become a tourist-clogged catwalk and a catalyst for some of the most rapid gentrification in New York's history," says author Jeremiah Moss in an article published in the New York Times. More »
Dutchess House No. 1
by Grzywinski + Pons
Shimmering aluminium panels are ridged like the top surfaces of bricks on the exterior of this country house in upstate New York by architects Grzywinski + Pons (+ slideshow). More »
Trial of "false bomb" designer adjourned
Dezeen Wire: the trail of Brooklyn designer Takeshi Miyakawa, who was arrested for "planting false bombs" while assembling an outdoor lighting installation in New York, has been adjourned. More »
Paul Kasmin Gallery, 27th Street
by studioMDA
Architects studioMDA have completed an aluminium-clad gallery in New York where all the artworks on show are visible from outside (photographs by Roland Halbe). More »
Sugar Hill housing by
Adjaye Associates
Dezeen Wire: work starts today on an affordable housing development in Harlem by architects Adjaye Associates More »
New York seeks "micro-units"
to solve housing shortage
Dezeen Wire: New York mayor Michael Bloomberg has launched a competition to design "micro-units" to help solve the shortage of of small apartments in Manhattan. More »
Columbia University Medical Building
by Diller Scofidio + Renfro
Architects Diller Scofidio + Renfro have proposed a medical education centre at New York's Columbia University that appears to have had its skin peeled away from its skeleton. More »
Wendy by
HWKN
Here are the first official photographs of Wendy, the giant blue spiky air-cleaning sculpture that has been installed in the courtyard of the P.S.1 Contemporary Art Centre in New York (+ slideshow). More »
Signature Center
by Frank Gehry
Slideshow: architect Frank Gehry has inserted a theatre into the base of tower in New York City (photographs by James Ewing/OTTO). More »
OWEN by Tacklebox
House of Shoes by Shigeru Ban
and Dean Maltz
Japanese architect Shigeru Ban has completed a New York store for footwear brand Camper where all the shoes are hidden away. More »
