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Architects: SHoP Architects
- Year: 2018
New York: The Latest Architecture and News
Pier 17 / SHoP Architects
BIG's First Twisting Tower Tops Out in Manhattan as New Renderings Released
Bjarke Ingels Group’s “The Eleventh” has marked a major milestone, with the first of the scheme’s two twisting High Line towers topping out in Chelsea, Manhattan. New images show construction moving quickly along, with the taller 35-story tower now topped out, and work on the cladding steadily progressing.
The 400-foot-tall structure will twist alongside a second 300-foot-tall sister tower, standing out even amongst notable neighbors including Frank Gehry’s IAC Building, Jean Nouvel’s 100 11th Avenue and Foster + Partners’ 551 West 21st Street.
10 ArchDaily Projects That You Can Book Through Airbnb
ArchDaily and Airbnb were both founded in 2008, but for two very different reasons. Since then, ArchDaily has amassed a vast database of tens of thousands of buildings, located in cities and countries all around the world. Meanwhile, Airbnb has revolutionized the way in which we explore these countries, and use these buildings, even if just for one night.
While architecture lovers have occasionally been offered very limited experiences through Airbnb, such as a one-night stay on the Great Wall of China, or an architectural tour of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Stadium courtesy of Kengo Kuma, it transpires that Airbnb’s listings contain some notable architectural gems available for regular booking.
American Copper Buildings / SHoP Architects
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Architects: SHoP Architects
- Year: 2018
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Professionals: Buro Happold, WSP Parsons Brinkerhoff, CCI, AKRF, Cerami & Associates, +5
Squarespace Offices / A+I
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Architects: A+I
- Area: 98000 ft²
- Year: 2016
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Manufacturers: Pure + FreeForm, B&B Italia, DuPont, Allegion, Allied Maker, +39
These Are The 50 Smartest Cities in the World in 2018
The Center for Globalization and Strategy from Barcelona’s IESE Business School has unveiled its annual list of the world’s smartest cities. In its fifth year, the IESE Cities in Motion Index has calculated the performance scores for 165 cities across 80 countries based on an exhaustive rubric of economic and social indicators. Familiar global power centers have maintained their position at the top of the heap, while expanded categories of assessment have helped a few small cities advance their position drastically.
First Look at Company, the SHoP Architects-Designed Vertical Tech Campus in NYC
Neighboring Grand Central Station, Company’s office building at 335 Madison Avenue has one of the most coveted locations in midtown Manhattan. Charged with completely renovating the building’s atrium and office floors, the local New York firm SHoP Architects has unveiled a set of interior renders that show their plans for the commuter-friendly office space.
2018 Young Architects Program Exhibition Opens at MoMA PS1 in New York
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) has opened its exhibition of the Young Architects Program 2018 at its MoMA PS1 location in Long Island City, New York. Now in its 19th edition, the Young Architects Program offers emerging talent in the architectural world the opportunity to “design and present innovative projects, challenging each year’s winners to develop creative designs for a temporary, outdoor installation that provides shade, seating, and water.”
The winning project this year was “Hide & Seek” by Jennifer Newsom and Tom Carruthers of Dream The Combine, working on collaboration with Clayton Binkey of ARUP.
Upper Eastside Townhouse / Michael K Chen Architecture
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Architects: Michael K Chen Architecture
- Area: 9600 ft²
- Year: 2017
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Manufacturers: Boston Valley Terra Cotta, Dornbracht, Gaggenau, Vitrocsa, Ann Sacks, +13
OMA Releases Images of Albright-Knox Art Gallery Expansion in New York
OMA has released new images of their proposed expansion project to the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York. The “bold, freestanding building” forms part of the AK360 expansion project, which also includes an OMA-led preservation and improvement project of the existing campus.
The new building will add 29,000 square feet of much-needed space for the display of exhibitions and the museum’s art collection, while also incorporating visitor amenities linked through a wraparound promenade.
3 World Trade Center / Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners
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Architects: Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners
- Year: 2018
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Manufacturers: GKD Metal Fabrics, SEFAR Architecture, Sherwin-Williams, Atlas Schindler, FastLane, +3
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Professionals: Tishman Construction Corporation, Ducibella Venter & Santore, Vidaris, Jaros Baum & Bolles
Number 7 Subway Line Extension & 34 Street Hudson Yards Station / Dattner Architects
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Architects: Dattner Architects
- Area: 364000 ft²
- Year: 2015
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Professionals: WSP, HLH7, Hill International, HDR, LiRo Group, +9
Manhattan Districts 1/2/5 Garage & spring street Salt Shed / Dattner Architects
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Architects: Dattner Architects
- Area: 431300 ft²
- Year: 2015
Joseph D. Jamail Lecture Hall / LTL Architects
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Architects: LTL Architects
- Area: 2750 ft²
- Year: 2017
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Professionals: Sextant Group, Faithful+Gould, Silman, Buro Happold, edu tek ltd., +1
Design Festival: FLOW! Getting Around the Changing City
Getting around a city of millions is a miracle of design, engineering and cooperation. In conversation, on foot, by bus, train, bike and ferry, Van Alen’s weeklong Spring Festival this June invites participants to experience and consider the present and future of urban mobility.
7 Lessons from New York's New Affordable Housing Design Guide
When we think of public housing architecture in the United States, we often think of boxes: big, brick buildings without much aesthetic character. But the implications of standardized, florescent-lit high-rises can be far more than aesthetic for the people who live there. Geographer Rashad Shabazz, for one, recalls in his book Spatializing Blackness how the housing project in Chicago where he grew up—replete with chain link fencing, video surveillance, and metal detectors—felt more like a prison than a home. Accounts of isolation, confinement, and poor maintenance are echoed by public housing residents nationwide.
But American public housing doesn’t have to be desolate. A new set of design standards from the New York City Public Design Commission (PDC)—in collaboration with The Fine Arts Federation of New York and the American Institute of Architects New York Chapter—hopes to turn over a new leaf in affordable housing architecture.