WASHINGTON HEIGHTS — After a $5 million renovation project, NYC’s historic High Bridge Water Tower will soon reopen for public tours. It has been more than a decade since people could enjoy the landmark once called “one of Manhattan’s most picturesque architectural monuments” by the Landmarks Preservation Commission. “It’s a symbol of our heritage, New …
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New York City had a total of 5,842 affordable housing units under construction as of July, according to Yardi Matrix data. While New York City has made a top priority of solving the affordability matter, due to lack of capital availability, scarcity of land, and high construction costs, the city’s acute housing crisis persists. The …
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Though the Twin Towers will forever be ingrained in American culture, their architect and many of the themes he intended for the World Trade Centers’ design have been lost in the annals of history Japanese architect Minoru Yamasaki was a modernist who designed for human interaction. His designs might have been minimal, pared down, and …
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New York Mayor Bill de Blasio announced the beginning of construction activities on the parking garage and community space alongside a new jail in Kew Gardens. The construction marks the first major activity in the Borough-Based Jails Program, an $8.3 billion effort to construct four new, smaller, and more humane jails in Manhattan, the Bronx, …
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Starr Whitehouse’s success at Marsha P. Johnson State Park demonstrates the merits of public engagement processes leading architectural design. Yes, and…” thinking has long been a guiding principle in Improv comedy. The suggestion that improvisers should accept the premise of the preceding sketch (“yes”) and then expand upon it (“and”) has, in recent years, become …
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New Yorkers have a surprise gift to look forward to for this Independence Day: a second Statue of Liberty sent by France. This new bronze statue, nicknamed the “little sister,” is one-sixteenth the size of the world-famous one that stands on Liberty Island. On Monday, during a special ceremony, the smaller sibling was lifted and …
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Todd Morley from Guggenheim Partners is taking the digital art trend to new heights Over the past few months, NFTs have taken on many forms. From celebrity tweets to Gucci sneakers, the blockchain seems to be utterly unbounded. And clearly, it is still far from reaching its limits. Now, financier Todd Morley has announced plans …
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Brooklyn Point features an infinity pool that’s nearly 700 feet above the street Extell Development Company’s first project in Brooklyn, N.Y., features the highest infinity pool in the Western Hemisphere, 680 ft above ground level. The 27-ft-long heated pool, designed by MNLA, sits atop Brooklyn Point, a 68-story 720-ft-tall residential tower with 483 luxury condos …
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The minimalist plus sign-shaped swimming pool cleans more than 600,000 of polluted water every day, and should be completed in about two year Generally speaking, New Yorkers are open-minded people, but one experience in which city dwellers would never participate is taking a dip in the famously contaminated East River. Even on the hottest summer …
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The luxury rental American Copper Buildings in New York City are named for the unusual material used on their facades. When architects from SHoP presented their scheme for the American Copper Buildings to JDS Development Group, they were aware that their two catercorner towers conjoined by a dramatic sky bridge would take up an iconic …
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