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A Waterfront Park as Public Amenity and Climate Mitigator

Martin Pedersen — Fri, 17 Feb 2023 03:30:00 +0000

This article was originally published on Common Edge.

Vibrant Intervention by The Urban Conga and Hive Public Spaces Sends Love Notes to Long Island City

Dima Stouhi — Tue, 23 Nov 2021 06:30:00 +0000

The Urban Conga has collaborated with HIVE Public Space and Long Island City Partnership on a new urban intervention titled "Ribbon", a vibrant and interactive installation for people to connect, share, and learn about each other's experiences in Long Island City, New York. Each unit includes kinetic pieces that rotate, reflecting the surrounding context and revealing different love notes written by locals to the city.

A Floating Timber Bridge Could Connect Greenpoint, Brooklyn and Long Island City

Ella Comberg — Sat, 09 Jun 2018 14:00:00 +0000

If you stand in Manhattan Avenue Park in Brooklyn’s Greenpoint neighborhood, you’ll see the Long Island City skyline across a small creek. On the Greenpoint side of the creek, a historic neighborhood of row houses and industrial sites is rapidly growing. On the Long Island City side, high-rise apartments and hundreds of art galleries and studios line the East River. Just a stone’s throw away, Long Island City can feel like a world apart from Greenpoint. That’s in large part due to the fact that only one bridge connects the neighborhoods—and it’s meant more for cars than pedestrians or cyclists. Isn’t there a better way? Architect Jun Aizaki thinks so. For the past few years, he and his team at CRÈME Architecture and Design have been working on the so-called “Timber Bridge at Longpoint Corridor."

3 Tips for Designing Quiet Apartment Buildings on Abnormally Noisy Sites

Kaley Overstreet — Thu, 08 Mar 2018 09:30:00 +0000

New York-based Stephen B Jacobs Group has almost completed construction on a pair of towers at 29-26 Northern Boulevard in Long Island City. Dubbed the QE7 for its adjacency to the Q, E, and 7 trains (not to mention its cruise ship-like amenities), the pair of towers will contain 467 units, including 13 floors dedicated to the largest co-living development in North America. What makes this building so unique, however, is how the architects and engineers devised a solution to overcome noise generated by the three neighboring subway lines.

LOT-EK Architecture Uses Recycled Shipping Containers for Its New Structure in Socrates Sculpture Park

Natalina Lopez — Fri, 23 Sep 2016 08:00:00 +0000

Perched on Long Island City’s waterfront, Socrates Sculpture Park is celebrating its 30^th anniversary with its first permanent structure.

MoMA PS1 YAP 2014 Runner-Up: Underberg / LAMAS

Karissa Rosenfield — Sat, 22 Mar 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Wouldn't it be nice to save a little cold for when it’s hot (and maybe a little warmth for when it’s cold)? This was the premise of LAMAS’s MoMA PS1 runner-up proposal, Underberg. Underberg is an urban iceberg that was one of five proposals shortlisted for the annual MoMA PS1 Young Architect’s Program (YAP) competition, which was ultimately won by the Living’s compostable brick tower. Though it isn't a native New Yorker, it has adapted to its new home in New York City and its crevasses take on the form of the avenues and streets of the gridiron. More on this proposal, after the break...

MoMA PS1 YAP 2014 Runner-Up: Mirror Mirror / Collective-LOK

Andrew Gipe — Sat, 15 Mar 2014 01:00:00 +0000

A vision by Jon Lott (PARA-Project), William O’Brien Jr. (WOJR), and Michael Kubo (over,under), Collective–LOK’s compelling proposal to reimagine MoMA PS1’s triangular courtyard with a billowing “urban mirror” was one of five finalists shortlisted for the annual competition’s 15th edition. Though the Living’s compostable brick tower was ultimately crowned winner, the Collective-LOK’s Mirror Mirror was an intriguing proposal that transcended the boundaries of the site.

Bloomberg Breaks Ground at Post-Sandy Housing Development in Long Island City, Queens

Irina Vinnitskaya — Sat, 09 Mar 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Despite NYC's recent bout with nature, Mayor Bloomberg is undeterred from developing housing along NYC's long stretch of waterfront, taking into account that proper measures are taken for storm and flooding mitigation. The latest in large scale developments comes to Hunter's Point South in the neighborhood of Long Island City in Queens. The first of such a scale since the 1970s development of Co-Op City in the Bronx, plans will include two phases of design and construction. The first phase, designed by SHoP Architects with Ismael Leyva Architects will bring two residential towers with 925 permanently affordable apartments, 17,000 square feet of retail space, infrastructural installations, a five-acre waterfront park, and a 1,100-seat school.

Ocasa / JENDRETZKI

Daniel Sánchez — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 00:00:00 +0000

This re-imagining of an Ulrich Franzen masterpiece, delicately updates materials, and reconfigures its use adapting it for a corporate headquarters of a shipping company.