New York City's famed Chrysler Building is up for sale for the first time in over 20 years. According to the Wall Street Journal, the art deco office tower’s current owners officially placed it on the market, though the building's value has yet to be released. Designed by William Van Alen, the building was bought by Tishman Speyer in 1997. As an iconic part of the New York skyline, the building is admired for its distinctive ornamentation based on Chrysler automobiles.
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New York City's Chrysler Building is Up for Sale
Architecture Classics: AT&T Building / Philip Johnson + John Burgee
It may be the single most important architectural detail of the last fifty years. Emerging bravely from the glassy sea of Madison Avenue skyscrapers in midtown Manhattan, the open pediment atop Philip Johnson and John Burgee’s 1984 AT&T Building (now the Sony Tower) singlehandedly turned the architectural world on its head. This playful deployment of historical quotation explicitly contradicted modernist imperatives and heralded the mainstream arrival of an approach to design defined instead by a search for architectural meaning. The AT&T Building wasn’t the first of its type, but it was certainly the most high-profile, proudly announcing that architecture was experiencing the maturation of a new evolutionary phase: Postmodernism had officially arrived to the world scene.
City of Saints Bryant Park / Only If
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Architects: Only If
- Area: 900 ft²
- Year: 2018
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Manufacturers: AMD Grating, Emtek, Nora, RocYork Hardwarev, Stone Source, +3
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Professionals: Plus Group Consulting Engineering PLLC
The High Line's New Public Space to Feature the Work of Simone Leigh
Next year New York's iconic High Line will open a new public space for art designed by James Corner Field Operations and Diller Scofidio + Renfro, with artwork by Simone Leigh. The public space will be the newest section of the elevated park dedicated to a rotating series of contemporary art commissions. The first art project in the space will be Brick House, a sixteen-foot-tall bronze bust of a black woman by Brooklyn’s Simone Leigh.
Barnard College, The Milstein Center / Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
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Architects: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
- Area: 128000 ft²
- Year: 2018
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Manufacturers: Island Exterior Fabricators
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Professionals: Brandston Partnership, Turner Construction, VDA, AECOM, Brightspot Strategy, +4
Studio Cadena Unveils "Happy" Installation in New York's Flatiron Plaza
Studio Cadena’s Happy installation has been unveiled in New York's Flatiron Plaza. The project is the winner of the fifth annual Design Competition hosted by the Flatiron/23rd Street Partnership Business Improvement District (BID) and Van Alen Institute. As the centerpiece of the annual holiday program, the installation was selected by a jury with expertise across the worlds of design and public art, including representatives from the Flatiron Partnership, New York City DOT Art, and Van Alen Institute’s board of trustees.
MVRDV's First US Project Breaks Ground in New York City
Dutch practice MVRDV has broken ground on Radio Tower & Hotel, a 21,800-square-meter mixed-use high rise located in the Washington Heights area in northern Manhattan. The 22-storey building is MVRDV’s first major project in the United States and combines hotel, retail, and office functions in vibrantly stacked blocks. The project was designed to reflecte the vivacious character of the neighborhood and set a direction for future development.
Amazon Selects Both New York City and Arlington for HQ2
Amazon has selected New York City and Arlington for it's next headquarters, set to become two of the biggest economic development projects in the United States. Instead of choosing one site, Amazon will spread over $5 billion in construction and investments across the two locations. The tech giant will house at least 25,000 employees in each city, and could receive more than $2 billion in tax incentives. The new announcement ends a 14-month competition among cities across the country.
Bleecker Street / Junzi Kitchen
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Architects: Junzi Kitchen
- Area: 1774 m²
- Year: 2018
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Professionals: Superficial Studio, MG Concept, Breakfast Woodwork
AD Classics: Citigroup Center / Hugh Stubbins + William Le Messurier
This article was originally published on November 5, 2014. To read the stories behind other celebrated architecture projects, visit our AD Classics section.
In a city of skyscrapers of nearly every shape and size, the Citigroup Center on Lexington Avenue is one of New York’s most unique. Resting on four stilts perfectly centered on each side, it cantilevers seventy-two feet over the sidewalk and features a trademark 45-degree sloping crown at its summit. The original structure responsible for these striking features also contained a grave oversight that nearly resulted in structural catastrophe, giving the tower the moniker of “the greatest disaster never told” when the story finally was told in 1995. The incredible tale—now legendary among structural engineers—adds a fascinating back-story to one of the most iconic fixtures of the Manhattan skyline.
Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center / Rockwell Group
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Architects: Rockwell Group
- Area: 17518 ft²
- Year: 2011
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Manufacturers: Acoustical Surfaces, DesignPlan, Get Real Surfaces, Kline K-Line, Maya Romanoff, +3
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Professionals: Fisher Dachs Associates, Focus Lighting, Jaffe Holden Acoustics, Open, SMW, +4
The Half House / Boro Architects + Cochineal Design
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Architects: Boro Architects, Cochineal Design
- Year: 2018
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Manufacturers: Dornbracht, Miele, Crestron, Element, Forbes & Lomax, +7
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Professionals: Cochineal Design
COOKFOX Studio / COOKFOX Architects
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Architects: COOKFOX Architects
- Area: 18275 ft²
- Year: 2017
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Manufacturers: Bendheim, Lutron, Unika Vaev, Bentley, Caesarstone, +2
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Professionals: JB&B, Longman Lindsey, CANY, COOKFOX, Deco Custom Woodwork, +6
Thesis Works of Daniel Libeskind, Liz Diller and Others Exhibited at the Cooper Union
The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York has unveiled an exhibition showcasing 50 years of undergraduate architectural thesis projects by students of the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture.
Drawing together the works of Elizabeth Diller, Laurie Hawkinson, Daniel Libeskind, and others, the exhibition titled “Archive and Artifact: The Virtual and the Physical” presents hand-drawn, digital, and three-dimensional works.
WeGrow / Bjarke Ingels Group
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Architects: Bjarke Ingels Group
- Area: 930 m²
- Year: 2018
AD Classics: Austrian Cultural Forum / Raimund Abraham
This article was originally published on May 25, 2015. To read the stories behind other celebrated architecture projects, visit our AD Classics section.
Before the impossibly “super-thin” tower became ubiquitous on the Midtown Manhattan skyline, Raimund Abraham’s Austrian Cultural Forum challenged the limits of what could be built on the slenderest of urban lots. Working with a footprint no bigger than a townhouse (indeed, one occupied the site before the present tower), Abraham erected a daring twenty-four story high-rise only twenty-five feet across. Instantly recognizable by its profile, a symmetrical, blade-like curtain wall cascading violently toward the sidewalk, ACFNY was heralded by Kenneth Frampton as “the most significant modern piece of architecture to be realized in Manhattan since the Seagram Building and the Guggenheim Museum of 1959.” [1]
Junzi Kitchen Columbia University / Xuhui Zhang
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Architects: Xuhui Zhang
- Area: 1800 m²
- Year: 2017