Mar 19
Description from ICRAVE: STK Midtown has taken cues from its sister restaurants but adapted to its latest environment: the Grace Building. Built in 1974, the Grace’s dramatically sloping concave form was a bold take on the ordinary skyscraper; its scale, gravitas and white travertine exterior caused the Grace Building to stand out and look brighter than its surrounding …
Jan 09
Giving Shelter is a one-night event that benefits the Mayor’s Alliance for NYC’s Animals. Participating architectural design firms build and donate creative outdoor winter shelters to provide NYC’s homeless cats with refuge from the season’s freezing temperatures. At the event these shelters are on display to the public and at the end all shelters are donated to …
Dec 31
Love Triangle New York 2013 by EASTON+COMBS has been designed at the invitation of the Times Square Alliance and the Design Trust for Public Space. The LTNY was a semifinalist project proposal for the annual Times Square Valentine Heart program for emerging architects in New York City. It is a multifaceted urban kaleidoscopic visual landscape dedicated to …
Dec 31
Description from EASTON+COMBS: The textile tradition creates a common thread for architecture and fashion. Both pursuits invent through pattern, structure, geometry and form. We redefine these distinctions as a play of scale and materiality. The Ohne Titel Concept Showroom is a temporary retail / gallery environment for the display of the fashion designers fall / …
Dec 21
The site of the concept is the Hudson Yard Project, the city’s industrial zone which awaits the big project aimed at making the Manhattan west area a new business and residential centre, near the Hudson river. NYTC project includes the designing of a theatre comprised of four large halls in a huge organic and floating …
Dec 20
Description from Echo: Design + Architecture: A skyscraper is traditionally defined by its disconnection from the ground. In addition, a hotel program attracts a high-end environment, typically found in Downtown or Midtown Manhattan. In contrast, Manhattanville, Harlem, is an area mainly characterized by low-income housing and a local community in an urban environment which is …
Dec 20
Austin-based Miró Rivera Architects has designed Circuit of The Americas, the first purpose-built Formula 1 Grand Prix™ facility in the United States. Description from Miró Rivera Architects: The Circuit of the Americas development located southwest of downtown Austin will be the host to the United States Formula 1 Grand Prix, MotoGP and V8 Supercar races starting …
Dec 18
Description from J. Mayer H. Architects: The New York City AIDS Memorial Park Campaign is a coalition of individuals and organizations dedicated to the recognition and preservation of the ongoing history of theAIDS crisis. In the 30th year of the epidemic, we seek to honor the more than 100,000 New York City men, women and children who have …
Dec 14
Description by bluarch : Glazz is a venue in the heart of Queens, NY designed to offer the ultimate entertainment experience to the diserning Latin crowd in New York. Made of discrete rooms, the site compelled for a design approach that would unify the different, disengaged areas. Therefore, the project was conceptually linked to the …
Nov 06
LAGI 2012 has announced the shortlist for the 2012 Land Art Generator Initiative design competition for Freshkills Park – an ideas competition to design a site-specific public artwork that, in addition to its conceptual beauty, has the ability to harness energy cleanly from nature and convert it to electricity for the utility grid – as …
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