Jersey City: The Latest Architecture and News

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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.

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.

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• Architects

  COOKFOX Architects

• Location

  New York, NY, United States

• Category

  Sustainability

• Lead Architects

  COOKFOX Architects

• Area

  18275.0 ft2

• Project Year

  2017

• Photographs

  Eric Laignel

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]

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This article was originally published on June 16, 2016. To read the stories behind other celebrated architecture projects, visit our AD Classics section.

Built in the early days of airline travel, the TWA Terminal is a concrete symbol of the rapid technological transformations which were fueled by the outset of the Second World War. Eero Saarinen sought to capture the sensation of flight in all aspects of the building, from a fluid and open interior, to the wing-like concrete shell of the roof. At TWA’s behest, Saarinen designed more than a functional terminal; he designed a monument to the airline and to aviation itself.

This AD Classic features a series of exclusive images by Cameron Blaylock, photographed in May 2016. Blaylock used a Contax camera and Zeiss lenses with Rollei black and white film to reflect camera technology of the 1960s.

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This article was originally published on February 11, 2014. To read the stories behind other celebrated architecture projects, visit our AD Classics section.

New York City’s original Pennsylvania Station was a monument to movement and an expression of American economic power. In 1902, the noted firm McKim, Mead and White was selected by the President of the Pennsylvania Railroad to design its Manhattan terminal. Completed in 1910, the gigantic steel and stone building covered four city blocks until its demolition in 1963, when it ceded to economic strains hardly fifty years after opening.

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• Architects

  Polshek Partnership (Ennead Architects)

• Location

  200 Central Park West, New York, NY 10024, United States

• Category

  Museum

• Design Partners

  James S. Polshek FAIA, Todd H. Schliemann FAIA

• Partner-in-Charge

  Joseph L. Fleischer FAIA

• Area

  379000.0 ft2

• Project Year

  2000

• Photographs

  Jeff-Goldberg, Richard-Barnes, Aislinn-Weidele

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• Architects

  Gensler

• Location

  New York, NY, United States

• Category

  Store

• Area

  45000.0 ft2

• Project Year

  2016

• Photographs

  Dirk Tacke

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• Architects

  Dirtworks Landscape Architecture

• Location

  150 Charles St, New York, NY 10014, United States

• Category

  Sustainability & Green Design

• Lead Architects

  David Kamp, FASLA, LF, NA

• Area

  338000.0 m2

• Project Year

  2015

• Photographs

  Mark Weinberg

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• Architects

  SHoP Architects

• Location

  New York, NY, United States

• Category

  Pier

• Project Year

  2018

• Photographs

  Ty Cole

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• Architects

  A+I

• Location

  8 Clarkson St, New York, NY 10014, United States

• Category

  Offices Interiors

• Design Team

  Brad Zizmor & Dag Folger, Eliane Maillot, Laura Sinn, Cheryl Baxter, Brita Everett, Peter Knutson, Tim Aarsen, Alan Calixto, Megan Kalinowski, Ryan Erb, Katina Kremelberg

• Area

  98000.0 ft2

• Project Year

  2016

• Photographs

  Magda Biernat

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• Architects

  Deborah Berke Partners

• Location

  New York, NY, United States

• Category

  University

• Lead Architects

  Deborah Berke, Maitland Jones, Noah Biklen, Scott Price

• Area

  100000.0 ft2

• Project Year

  2017

• Photographs

  Chris Cooper

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• Architects

  A+I

• Location

  Hudson Square, New York, NY, United States

• Category

  Offices Interiors

• Area

  120000.0 ft2

• Project Year

  2017

• Photographs

  Magda Biernat

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• Architects

  Ennead Architects

• Location

  New York, United States

• Category

  Refurbishment

• Design Team

  Megan Beddoe, Alfonso Gorini ,Steven Caputo, Steven Chang AIA, LEED AP BD+C, Michael Chen, Lucy Ciletti, Andrew Comfort, Frank de Santis, Amanda Faye, Chris Hall, James Ke, Dean Kim, Janny Kim, Chris Koon, Molly McGowan AIA, Charmian Place, Michael Regan, Kevin Rice, Mary Rowe, Rainier Simoneaux, Oliver Sippl, Margaret Tyrpa AIA, Yvonne Yang, Robert Young AIA, John Zimmer

• Area

  176000.0 ft2

• Project Year

  2016

• Photographs

  Richard Barnes