Developers sure do like to go out of their way to hype their buildings. To wit: the team behind 125 Greenwich Street commissioned Snarkitecture to create a model of the"new downtown," including—duh—125 Greenwich Street.
The team behind the iconic Four Seasons Restaurant hasn't completely vacated that midcentury masterpiece, but they're already on the hunt for an architect to build out their new digs at 280 Park Avenue.
Manhattan's Automobile Row, along 11th and 12th Avenues in Hell's Kitchen, may feel like it's a world away from the heart of the island, but that's not stopping developers from building the area up.
It's ba-aack! Embattled hedge funder Steven Cohen has put his One Beacon Court penthouse on the market for a fourth time, and unsurprisingly, the new listing also comes with a price chop. The four-bedroom penthouse is now listed for $72 million.
On April 19, the Landmarks Preservation Commission is set to consider a proposed $190 million renovation to the Ford Foundation, the 1967 building by Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo and Associates. Here's what those changes may mean for the building.
The long, strange saga of the iconic Four Seasons Restaurant isn't over quite yet: Before its current owners pack up and leave this summer, they'll auction off items designed for the space by titans like Philip Johnson and Mies van der Rohe.
A postmodern mansion in the ritzy Fieldston enclave in The Bronx hit the market asking $1.95 million. It is a rare example of the distinct architectural style in New York City.
Rem Koolhaas's firm OMA has never done a ground-up building in New York City—until now. OMA will design the building that's soon to rise on the site of United Cerebral Palsy's Gramercy headquarters on East 23rd Street
A common reaction to Marcel Breuer and Associates’ 1959-61 Colston Hall at Bronx Community College, an arcing slab of concrete and steel hard by the Major Deegan Expressway and overlooking the Harlem River, is, What’s that?
Once upon a time, the acclaimed piano-makers Steinway & Sons called 57th Street home. But after selling it to a developer, the company moved to a new flagship, designed by Annabelle Selldorf, on Manhattan's Sixth Avenue.
Part of the library's ongoing renovation work, which also includes work on the iconic Rose Reading Room, the restoration team at EverGreene Architectural Arts worked to recreate the 27-by-33-foot mural created by James Wall Finn in 1911.
We're used to seeing ratty old couches for sale on Craigslist, but apparently it's also where world-renowned architects go when they're trying to offload pieces of custom furniture. Yes, Daniel Libeskind's studio is selling a desk on Craigslist.
ODA's new rental building in Long Island City will hit the rental market in March with apartments asking from $2,600. Here's a first look inside the high-end rental building.
Every year, MoMA PS1's Young Architects Program brings a bit of architectural whimsy—design-y water pipes, brick towers, a "party wall"—to the museum's Long Island City courtyard as part of its summer art installation (which coincides with the...
The 23rd Annual Canstruction Competition opened yesterday at Brookfield Place in Battery Park City, as 30 New York City architecture and engineering firmsas well as a couple of high school ringersunveiled their clever, and at times impressively...
The megamansion to end all megamansions could soon be created in Tribeca. The Wall Street Journal reports that the owners of a five-story apartment building at 71 Franklin Street want to sell the property to some absurdly rich person looking for a...
Denizens of Gowanus, get ready. This giant, cantilevering ziggurat may be coming to your neighborhood. The website 6sqft spotted the renderings, created by ODA New York (obviously, just look at those stacked boxes), in a video on the firm's...
Spanish architect Andrés Jaque has won MoMA's annual Young Architects Program contest, to craft and install a massive, temporary structure in the courtyard of MoMA PS1. Jaque's New York- and Madrid-based firm—the Office for Political Innovation—...
As it turns out, the expansion of Long Island City's Silvercup Studios to include Silvercup West, a mixed-use extension of the famed production studio, hasn't been a dormant project after all; in fact, LEESER Architecture has been busy creating a...
The alien idea of erecting an "earthship" on an empty lot on Pitt Street between Rivington and Delancy streets in the Lower East Side is still very present. Plans for the "radically sustainable home" have reared their head again after three years...
Say hi to Hy-Fi, this year's winner of MoMA PS1's annual Young Architects Program. Designed by David Benjamin of The Living, Hy-Fi is made of some innovative materialslike mushroom roots and cornstalksall of which are biodegradable, so when the...
An exhibit opening next month at the Warehouse Gallery in Prospect Heights show how some very creative architecture firms would have designed the stalled Atlantic Yards megaproject. Straightforwardly titled "Five Proposals for the Future of...
Staten Island's planned "net zero" school, which was announced in 2011 and broke ground in 2012, is taking shape. With P.S. 62 slated to open in the fall of 2015, housing 444 pre-K through fifth-grade students, exciting (and very technical)...
Behold, the most exciting and completely insane thing ever proposed for Queens: the Urban Alloy Towers. This sea creature-like mass of tubular towers comes from the minds of Chad Kellogg and Matt Bowles of AMLGM. The simple, boring explanation of...
The World Heath Organization estimates that 6 out of 10 people in the world will live in cities by 2030, and 7 out of 10 by 2050. That alarming calculation lead Terreform One, a nonprofit design group that promotes smart and ecological design in...
That 20-story tower rising at Amsterdam and 68th Street? Upper West Siders better brace themselves, because it's going to look pretty zany. Eagle-eyed New York YIMBY first spotted some new renders over at Handel Architects' official site, and...
No better time than the depths of this snowy, slushy, gross winter to start daydreaming about summer, so we were delighted to see the designs for this year's MoMA PS1 courtyard hit our inbox today. The kooky architectural installations have been...
UPDATE 1/17: The answer to the question in the headline is actually a big fat no. Marc Kushner of HWKN has clarified that these renderings were purely speculative and created before the developer selected an architect. There will still be a hotel...
