Miscellaneous
As the redevelopment of the massive Domino Sugar refinery on the WIlliamsburg waterfront continues to trudge through the citys public review process, what remains of the once mighty sweetener [...] Read »
Turns out the vociferous opponents to a Beale Street station in San Francisco had it right. The California High Speed Rail Authority voted last week not to build an underground station at Beale [...] Read »
"They should call it the freshman 15 as it seems to bulge in the middle."w'burgeois [Hotel Pennsylvania Killer Gets a Name: 15 Penn Plaza] Read »
Designed by the great Chicago architect and planner Daniel Burnham, this handsome if forlorn rail station may get a new life. Located in Richmond, Indiana, which is about halfway between Indianapolis [...] Read »
555 Washington, the proposed 38-story neighbor to SFs iconic Transamerica Pyramid, has ridden a troubled road on its way though the city approval process. It seems that uneven path will continue. [...] Read »
The second time was the charm for developers the Chetrit Group, whose initial plan to turn a row of six down-on-their-luck East 76th Street townhouses into three single-family mansions with new [...] Read »
Time now for an update on a pair of Long Island City newbies... 1) When odd new Long Island City condo building East of East went with a stripey pattern for its construction plywood on Jackson [...] Read »
And now, the saddest thing ever: The crawlspaces beneath the Ravenswood Houses in Long Island City are home to a booming population of feral cats. To curb the problem, Housing Authority workers [...] Read »
New York City will soon move into modern times with an updated recycling program that will increase plastic recycling, place more recycling bins around the city and add drop off locations in [...] Read »
Please update your W New York Downtown Hotel & Residences calendars: The Financial District's oft-delayed tower o' glitz will not make its most recent opening date of May 4. Instead, HotelChatter [...] Read »
Click the image above to view the full photogallery. One good brand new West Village townhouse deserves another, so we're following up the Novogratz clan with an even bigger name: Marc Jacobs. [...] Read »
For the latest chapter of Red Hook Gentrification Watch, we turn to Conover Street between Coffey and Van Dyke streets, where there's a strip of 1930s fishermen's cottages now owned by developer [...] Read »
The web is alive with news that a Taiwan company has built a three-level exhibition hall -- EcoARK -- using about 1.5 million plastic bottles. According to Reuters, the building was commissioned [...] Read »
The question of what to do with vacant houses can seem unsolvable. On the one hand, we must demolish much of the abandonment as a way to fight blight, and to daylight Cleveland of its unsafe [...] Read »
Studio, 1 BA, 503 sq ft Rent: $1,908/mo. | No fee 111 Lawrence St., Line C [thebrooklyner.com] Read »
Exploring issues of security in a time of terror, Sarah Pickering�s new monograph Explosions, Fires, and Public Order goes behind the scenes at training sites for British government forces. Via FlavorPill Read »
The government’s design watchdog has criticised the ‘over-articulated’ elevations on KPF’s One Crown Place scheme and called on the designers to make it more elegant Read »
The Welsh Assembly Government has expressed disappointment at its failure to gain extra housing powers from Westminster Read »
Norwegian all-female practice PUSHAK is planning to build a ‘guerrilla’ garden at The Architecture Foundation to celebrate the London Festival of Architecture Read »
[Images: (left) An archaeologist examines soil cores. (right) Researchers plot lost roads across the grounds of Monticello. Courtesy of the Glenn A. Black Laboratory of Archaeology at IU Bloomington]. [...] Read »
Benson & Forsyth has won planning permission for a ‘five-year regeneration project’ in Islington, north London, which includes two new skyscrapers Read »
Part of the 14 Cities series: "The ‘Macau of the South’, Star City emerged from the ruins of the deadly Sydney casino fire in 2014. Still assumed to be arson committed by the disgruntled [...] Read »
Roger Richert bought the dilapidated Depot believing it again could be a showplace + video and slideshows link via @ urbanophile Read »
Technology
Recently the city of Chicago was honored as one of two exceptionally green US cities to be shortlisted for UN-Habitats 100 Cities Initiative. The project aims to give cities, governments, and [...] Read »
Ten years ago three college students had a vision to reclaim a stagnant downtown area in Oberlin, Ohio in a couple of months that vision will become reality. Sustainable Community Associates [...] Read »
We first wrote about Koreas Songdo IBD back in September, and now were thrilled to report that the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) has just awarded the ambitious eco-citys convention center [...] Read »
The answer to the growing water crisis in developing countries might be a postage stamp-sized device that resembles a computer chip. Researchers at MIT have developed a water purifier made out [...] Read »
There are millions of pounds of plastic swirling out in the ocean and the best way to take care of it would be to collect it all and recycle it. Whim Architects, from the Netherlands, is proposing [...] Read »
The High Speed Solar Airship (HSSA) is a high-flying airship concept that proposes using thin-film solar panels and other off-the-shelf components to create a cost-competitive, high speed vessel [...] Read »
The international design community has been buzzing about Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshiokas new shape-shifting chair, due to debut in Milan Design Fair this week. Made of recycled aluminum, [...] Read »
Studio Seilern Architects turned a challenge into an opportunity when they designed the Whitehorse Street Apartments for an urban infill lot in London. Located on Whitehorse Street in the prestigious [...] Read »
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( Urban Beach by O+A.) A quick acknowledgment of a faint signal from the usually noisy Dezeen : O+A 's “conceptual floating swimming platform for the river IJ in Amsterdam.” (Urban Beach [...] Read »
[Aw! Via Curbed Photo Pool/cranburry] · Designer gives up Chelsea Mercantile penthouse for lower floor [NYO] · Is NYC on the verge of a ratdemic? [Gothamist] · Hey, watch out for hobbits in [...] Read »
Click the image above to view the full photogallery. Lincoln Center got another new toy today, as the ribbon was cut on the glassy new street-level studios for WNET/Thirteen, the PBS affiliate. [...] Read »
Sheepshead Bay came in at #27 on New York magazine's Most Livable Neighborhoods list. Stat boy Nate Silver's review of the 'hood: "Far from the action but close to the sea; quiet, safe, and clean, [...] Read »
Continued success in the establishment of Ancona, the production of luxury yachts 124 of Custom Line . The project was presented during the Festival de la Plaisance in Cannes last year, the [...] Read »
And now, the latest from Racked NY, covering shopping and retail from the sidewalks up. 1) Union Square: The upcoming Nordstrom Rack in the former Virgin Megastore space hasn't been showing much [...] Read »
Since ranking NYC's most livable neighborhoods for New York magazine this week, professional stat-head Nate Silver has been dealing with some backlash, so he's taken to his own website to explain [...] Read »
Just in time for tonight's premiere of the much-anticipated Novogratz clan real estate reality TV show, the family's 5 Centre Market Place townhouse is back on the market. Last seen hooping it [...] Read »
If you want to teach your tot about modern design but dont think theyre quite ready to hit the textbooks just yet, check out these rad alphabet blocks by House Industries. Drawing inspiration [...] Read »
Hyped real estate auction website Bid on the City has another auction planned for April 27, and among the many ways they invite bidders to spend money is what they're calling "the first ever [...] Read »
The house furniture is a bit dream of freedom. Put the idea of being able to move at will, put the taste of a simpler life and informal. In addition there is a democratic value: a home so cute , [...] Read »
Though Vornado Realty Trust still says it's not tearing down Seventh Avenue's loved/hated/tolerated Hotel Pennsylvania anytime soon, the developer sure is making strides when it comes to firming [...] Read »
The Cleveland City Planning Commission on Friday unanimously approved designs for the first two apartment buildings in proposed by MRN Ltd. for the critically important and long-delayed Uptown [...] Read »
[A facade and not much else on Meserole St. in Williamsburg, via Curbed Photo Pool/Ro.E.H] · Greenpoint reacts to fifth-place finish on livable neighborhoods list [NYT] · Markowitz to Sadik-Khan: [...] Read »
What will turn your architecture from merely being a place that people go to, into a place that people feel attached to a space where they have made a connection and one that is meaningful? [...] Read »
There is something magical about lines, something sacred about line drawings where a majority of architects find it sexy. Like doctors and blood, or accountants and creative accounting scandals, [...] Read »
My weekly page update: This week's dose features Long Beach Cottage in Long Beach, New York by Resolution: 4 Architecture: The featured past dose is Mountain Retreat in Kerhonkson, New York [...] Read »
Part of the 14 Cities series: "Floating low over the Blue Mountains, the city of Tillandsia is named after a very particular plant genus. Tillandsia — the plant — draws moisture and nutrients [...] Read »
Part of the 14 Cities series: "Sometime after becoming Lord Mayor of Adelaide, Maggie Beer declared the city the first official ‘slow city’ in the southern hemisphere, moving Adelaide in [...] Read »
Part of the 14 Cities series: "By 2045, the Sunshine Coast had effectively become a single urban conurbation stretching from Caloundra to Cooloola, eventually known as New Sunshine. Coordinated [...] Read »
News
Only about 125 miles separate Dubai and Abu Dhabi, but the Persian Gulf emirates can seem worlds apart in terms of opportunities for architects. Read »
Polish designers Beton have presented their nearly completed, shingle-clad church in a small village of Tarnów overlooking the Vistula River. The church serves as a place of meditation and prayer [...] Read »
Education
Planning on using my Bachelor Apartment design to test my laser cutting skills, busy laying out the pieces in cad. Will be scaling the project down and loosing some detail but will hopefully [...] Read »
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After nearly a year of waiting, weve now seen the new designs coming to Governors Island sometime in the future. But there is also some exciting architecture, art, and, most importantly, mini [...] Read »
This June—a full two years after the city of Cleveland passed its bike parking ordinance—all parking garage operators in the city will be required to install bike racks. One bike spot for [...] Read »
[The north and south sides of 104 West 40th Street.] MIDTOWNBuildings less than 50 years old don't usually wind up in front of the Landmarks Preservation Commission, but today the LPC gave [...] Read »
To kick off an ambitious long-term sustainability plan to reduce its carbon emissions and waste, athletic wear company PUMA has teamed up with world-renowned industrial designer Yves Behar [...] Read »
The Department of Buildings has been taking applications for its Stalled Sites Program for a few months. So how's that going? The Real Deal asks DOB Commissioner Robert Limandri, who says that [...] Read »
A couple weeks ago, we mentioned a two-year collaboration between Coca-Cola and Emeco to produce the 111 Navy Chair. It'll be unveiled this week in Milan and sales begin in June here in the states [...] Read »
[Photo via Google Street View.] Which of these Brooklyn Heights brownstones is not like the other? Here's a hint: It's the one with the word FAKE and a big red arrow pointed at it. Yesterday [...] Read »
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Cleveland architects are a low key bunch. They generally avoid speaking out on controversial issues, which could alienate potential clients, and they prefer to let their work speak for itself. [...] Read »
On Sunday it was announced that the city and state have agreed to a deal wherein the NYC will take control of the island from the state and will push ahead with a plan that includes a 2.2-mile-long [...] Read »
[Image: Stephen Graham's Cities Under Siege ]. In a 2003 paper for the Naval War College Review , author Richard J. Norton defined the term feral cities . “Imagine a great metropolis covering [...] Read »
The Observer has the renderings of the new "comfort station" coming to Washington Square Park, designed by BKSK Architects. There will be solar panels on the roof, a ladies' room with four stalls [...] Read »
2 BR, 2 BA, 1,349 sq ft condo Asking: $1,598,000 | Sweeping views 350 West 42nd Street [Corcoran] Read »
Kiddie Co. Walt Disney is launching a line of upscale furniture at the Milan Design Fair in Italy this week. Disney teamed up with Italian furniture makers Cappellini to create a fancy adult [...] Read »
Click the image above to view the full photogallery.[Renderings by West 8, Rogers Marvel, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Mathews Nielsen, and Urban Design+.] It was just over three years ago when [...] Read »
The anti-tour bus agitation has moved from town hall meeting to legislation, with an upcoming City Council bill requiring tour buses to use headsets instead of a microphone. Local residents complained [...] Read »
I will be moderating “Discussions on Networked Publics,” a panel on urban politics and warfare tonight April 13 at 6.30pm. This is the third in a series of panels examining how technology [...] Read »
The Labour party has vowed to make good its commitment to roll out design standards for all new public buildings in its election manifesto Read »
The building where the museum resides, inaugurated on the 21st of October 2001, is itself a public work of art. Water is visible from all parts of the building, it is a beautiful model of the [...] Read »
(Image via Edible Geography .) Edible Geography has another deliriously interesting post , this one on a mythological or not-so mythological tunnel in New York City through which cattle may or [...] Read »
Part of the 14 Cities series: '"The pervasive deployment of sunglasses and white headphones had become a feature of the urban experience in the early 2000s. At first glance, citizens during the [...] Read »
From the 14 Cities series: "Though some claim it is merely a frivolous architectural theme park without the attractions, others have declared it to be the most interesting urban experience in [...] Read »
Part of the 14 Cities series: “(The bush) was biding its time with a terrible ageless watchfulness, waiting for a far-off end, watching the myriad intruding white men.” D.H. Lawrence, Kangaroo [...] Read »
City & Urbanism
This week New York City officially unveiled its finalized plan for a $220 million renovation of Governors Island! Starting in 2012, construction will begin on what could become one of the coolest [...] Read »
How can a serious book project be justified by a article in a crappy newspaper? Well, there are many reasons for this and it is not per se a negative thing. It only looks more nobel if the product [...] Read »
A city vision born from darkness with references to a long line of classics, from Metropolis to Blade Runner. Massive Attack have pushed the boundaries in a number of areas and have always tried [...] Read »
Architects
Architect Daniel Libeskind has unveiled Villa, a made-to-order luxury house that can be delivered and assembled anywhere in the world. Built in Germany, the zinc-clad Villa has two interior design [...] Read »
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Chile-based 0300TV have reformatted their web presence with a very nice, minimal interface, offering a subscription model to their videos interviews, projects and PDF documents. The latest features [...] Read »
I live for the third Wednesday of every month when Vogue arrives on the newsstands here in New York. The May covergirl is Sarah Jessica Parker who is of course promoting the release of the movie [...] Read »
The University of South Carolina recently announced a competition for a new design for the Moore School of Business. According to The State , "four Columbia firms and their national partners [...] Read »
The Grand Hotel de Cabourg is located in an enviable position on the Channel coast in Normandy. This luxury hotel , opened in 1907, was a favorite of French writer Marcel Proust, who immortalized [...] Read »
Hills of Fiesole, near Florence. Here lies an ancient palace of the Florentine fifteenth century belonged to the aristocracy. Today the palace is a luxurious villa that is called The Hotel Salviatino. [...] Read »
A group of architects from the Netherlands have a crazy idea to take all the plastic floating out there in the Pacific Ocean, and recycle it into a floating island the size of Hawaii. Climate [...] Read »
Click the image above to view the full photogallery. The Real Estalker notes that this River House co-op belongs to romance novelist Barbara Taylor Bradford and her producer husband Robert Bradford. [...] Read »
Couldn't resist resurrecting my " Craiglist ad of the Week " for this one: Art or Architecture Blog - Story Placement Very simply, I need to get articles about a friend posted in blogs about [...] Read »
Tonight is the long-awaited premiere of the new Bravo reality show 9 by Design, and at least one Curbed reader is pumped: "This reader is looking forward to a recap of tonight's premier of 9 [...] Read »
Bennetts Associates has won planning permission for a landmark 10,000 m² mixed-use scheme on Edgware Road, west London Read »
Despite doorman plans to take to Park Avenue this afternoon, a strike when the union's contract expires next week is actually not likely. Brick Underground thinks this year's negotiators are [...] Read »
Can't stop looking at this Banksy project in LA . Read »
G. Natkevicius and Partners projected this beautiful private residence located in the town of Kaunas in Lithuania.
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We've seen green portable classrooms from Toby Long Design and Frog Zero classrooms from Project Frog, and this Gen7 School from American Modular Systems is an interesting option to add to the [...] Read »
I might have to step up my husband hunt since J.Crew is set to open a special wedding boutique in my neighborhood! The atelier at 769 Madison Avenue at 66th Street will officially debut on May [...] Read »
Part of the 14 Cities series: "An output of the most stringently applied planning codes possible, the Fractal City comprises most of the new City of Newcastle, NSW, rebuilt after the Great Earthquake [...] Read »
Part of the 14 Cities series: "From his observation tower, Mark looked across the expanses of waste treatment plants stretching into the distance. To his left he could see the marshlands responsible [...] Read »
Part of the 14 Cities series: "Harry stepped out of his house onto the old iron floorplate of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, sipping an espresso. Since the car traffic had been removed, leaving only [...] Read »
Architectural Works
Swedish architects We Are You were recently awarded 1st price in a competition for their proposal Have a Nice Day for a new student residential house in Toronto, Canada. You can see more images, [...] Read »
AMO is a design and research studio inside OMA, a think tank operating on the boundaries of architecture: media, politics, sociology, sustainability, technology, fashion, curating, publishing [...] Read »
Daniel Bonilla Arquitectoss latest project is an open chapel in La Calera, Colombia that is gently nestled into the surroundings. The simplicity of the geometry adds a touch of elegance [...] Read »
Architects Supermachine Studio of Thailand have completed a bright red car showroom in Bangkok. Read »
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