(roryrory– flickr/creative commons license) Asymptote took on this awkward, tight fitting site in Soho,New York City for Italian housewares manufacturer Alessi. Designing for an espresso bar as well as typical retail space, they gave each element a distinction. Striped boxes …
Category: New York
(Paolo Mazzo – flickr/creative commons license) The Nomadic Museum in New York City is a temporary structure built of 152 shipping containers. It was designed by Shigeru Ban for Gregory Colbert’s art exhibit ‘Ashes and Snow,’ and opened in 2005. …
If there’s one building perfect for Halloween this is it. It’s located on Heart Island on the St. Lawrence River in New York. G.W.&W.D. Hewitt designed this six story “castle” and four accompanying romantic masonry structures. The owner, George Boldt, …
(sari_dennise– flickr/creative commons license) Why the New York Times construct a new building? Probably because they somehow leased it for well under market value, and received huge tax breaks. Anyway, right away people were climbing up the exterior rods, so …
(dolbinator1000– flickr/creative commons license) Originally published 2008 It’s too bad all we get on this anniversary is a hole in the ground after delays and controversy. The above design only came after massive confusion and changes. At the beginning everyone …
(ryanjraffa– flickr/creative commons license) The Amtrak train tunnel under Riverside Park in Manhattan, New York City, is the perfect spot for graffiti artists to contribute their talent for public display. Intermittent shafts of light illuminate concrete canvases for the common …
Event spaces and offices for a fashion design company accomodate 120 staff, with an executive suite and a private penthouse apartment. This adaptive renewal of an historic Manhattan building preserves the brick facades while digging a deep stairway in the …
(tracilawson– flickr/cc license) On September 27, New York City’s new Museum of Arts and Design will open to the public, replacing the 1964 “lollipop” building that once occupied Columbus Circle in Manhattan. Brad Cloepfil of Allied Works Architecture produced a …