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Curbed New York - Architecture 2013-01-22 22:24:20
Click here to view the full photogallery. Eager to jump on the living solo/living small trend, the city launched its adAPT NYC competition last summer, seeking proposals for micro units to fill a building at 335 East 27th Street. Mayor Bloomberg announced the winner this morning, and the judges (an illustrious panel including Paul Goldberger, Bjarke Ingels, Maya Lin, and others who …


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Curbed New York - Architecture 2013-01-17 21:20:19
Click here to view the full photogallery. Architects Grzywinski + Pons designed Norfolk Street's Son of Thor building, The Hotel on Rivington, and other large properties. Freshome has a look at another, smaller Grzywinski + Pons project in Bayside, Queens, a home meant for three generations of the same family. The 3,200-square-foot building includes a swimming pool, has retaining walls meant to …


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Curbed New York - Architecture 2013-01-11 00:05:28
Welcome back to Redesign the City, a feature in which University of Edinburgh architecture graduate William Weber reimagines how NYC neighborhoods and buildings could be improved or how they might look in the future. Have a building you want us to re-envision? Want to submit a rendering of your own? Please be in touch. The state's Thruway Authority has thrown its support …


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Curbed New York - Architecture 2013-01-03 20:25:08
[By Mercedes Cuvi] There's less than a month until the official centennial of Grand Central Terminal—the station opened on February 2, 1913—and as part of the festivities, the Architectural League of New York and the New York Transit Museum hosted a competition for architect and designer sketches of the station. Archinect has a slideshow of the winners, which were unveiled late last …


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Curbed New York - Architecture 2012-12-28 19:50:00
It's time to make up a bunch of awards and hand them out to the most deserving people, places and things in the real estate, architecture and neighborhood universes of New York City! Yep, it's time for the Ninth Annual Curbed Awards! Up now: architecure. Oops There Goes My View Award One57, the city's next tallest residential building, has topped out and took …


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Curbed New York - Architecture 2012-12-08 03:57:02
[Image by HWKN via Flavorwire.] Since no one is restoring brownstones these days, what should be done with them? Making them over in glass and aluminum is a common strategy, but is there an alternative design that could enrage preservationists less and perhaps become a new go-to housing form? Flavorwire put this question to a bunch of local designers, including Curbed favorites …


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Curbed New York - Architecture 2012-12-06 18:00:17
The residents of 59, 61, and 63 Conselyea Street have a bone to pick with their building's architect, aka Brooklyn barredchitect Robert Scarano: he forgot that they need a place to put their trash. The condo residents say they've been fined by the Department of Sanitation for putting trash enclosures on the sidewalk without a permit, DNAinfo reports. Condo board president …


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Curbed New York - Architecture 2012-10-18 19:10:15
The under-the-radar architects Goldstein, Hill & West have designed 70-something buildings around New York City. The architects, who defected from working with Costas Kondylis, are liked by developers because, well, they don't make developers' lives difficult. They've already signed on to do the interiors at 56 Leonard and, rumor has it, One57. [NYO]


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Curbed New York - Architecture 2012-10-18 13:40:16
Click here to view the full photogallery. Norman Foster's proposed redesign of 425 Park Avenue was the victor in a four-starchitect face-off to determine the future of the blah brick and glass building between 55th and 56th streets. Developer L&L Holdings will begin work on Foster's design in 2015, and it should be done in 2017. While we wait for it to …


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Curbed New York - Architecture 2012-10-09 00:25:12
Palazzo Chupi recently "re-upped on the Pepto Bismol paint," in the words of a Curbed tipster. And since Julian Schnabel's pink palace is now back in the form Schnabel intended it, it seemed high time to visit the streets around the building for another citizen archicritics video. This time, video editor David Sherwin and intern Emily Laskodi found that people are …


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Curbed New York - Architecture 2012-10-07 19:40:13
Click here to view the full photogallery. Architect power couple Hayes and James Slade of Slade Architecture created their 1,600-square-foot Lower East Side co-op home from two separate adjacent apartments. The four-bedroom, two-bath home has the aesthetic look that only two creatives could come up with: cubby holes for wine glasses, a kitty-door that hides a separate cat abode, closets created with …


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Curbed New York - Architecture 2012-09-25 15:20:04
Click here to view the full photogallery. This delightfully bizarre pile of renderings comes from the minds at Labscape…so, uh, what is it? It's something called the NYC Eco Tower Museum, meant to be home to a museum about immigration after the 60s. If it looks more like some kind of rising sea creature, well, it certainly isn't meant to be a …


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Curbed New York - Architecture 2012-09-25 15:20:04
Click here to view the full photogallery. This delightfully bizarre pile of renderings comes from the minds at Labscape…so, uh, what is it? It's something called the NYC Eco Tower Museum, meant to be home to a museum about immigration after the 60s. If it looks more like some kind of rising sea creature, well, it certainly isn't meant to be a …


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Curbed New York - Architecture 2012-09-24 20:26:39
The folks at SLO Architecture—they of the floating umbrella dome and a New Practices New York Award—are hoping to gather support for a new proposal: a makeover for the South Bronx's Westchester Avenue Station, designed by Cass Gilbert and built in 1908. The station is currently in a state of extreme disrepair, and Amtrak, on whose Northeast Corridor the building now …


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Curbed New York - Architecture 2012-09-19 19:55:00
In the days running up to the grand opening of the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, all systems are being checked out, including the wraparound zipper display inside the arena's exterior oculus that hangs over Barclays main entrance. A tipster sent us this video that looks reminiscent of a scene from Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Extra alien ambience is added …


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Curbed New York - Architecture 2012-09-12 16:20:54
Architect Deborah Berke is the latest winner of the biannual Berkeley-Rupp Prize, for someone "who has made a significant contribution to the advancement of women in the field of architecture." We note this because Berke is behind a few notable NYC projects, including 48 Bond, the PS 122 makeover, and the house that used to belong to the guy who created …


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Curbed New York - Architecture 2012-09-04 22:15:00
[Scouting NY] Clothing retailer Express is taking over the building at 1552 Broadway in Times Square—replacing the T.G.I. Friday's that has made so many out-of-towners feel at home in Manhattan over the years—and Scouting NY notes the long history of the building. Beneath the T.G.I. Friday's billboards is a sooty limestone and marble exterior distinguished by four statues of early 20th century …


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Curbed New York - Architecture 2012-09-04 16:30:49
Architect Bjarke Ingels is the man behind the magic pyramid planned for 625 West 57th Street—a building currently known as W57. Ingels earns a profile in this week's New Yorker, which includes one of our favorite descriptions yet of Hell's Kitchen's future magic mountain: "The form of W57 is what you might have if snow drifted steeply into the corner of …


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Curbed New York - Architecture 2012-08-27 22:53:31
People like to talk about the Barclays Center—even the Times is talking about its weathering steel right now—so Curbed video editor David Sherwin and intern Rob Aquino took to the streets of Brooklyn to get regular folks' opinions on the structure. The video is the latest in our citizen archicritics series. Have a building you'd like us to visit? Suggest it …


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Curbed New York - Architecture 2012-08-22 18:50:41
Professional archicritics have newspaper and magazine pages in which to spill their architectural opinions, but it's not only official columnists who have strong feelings about the city's buildings. So Curbed video editor David Sherwin and intern Rob Aquino took to the streets to gather regular folks' opinions on much-talked-of buildings. Up first, Curbed favorite 40 Bond. Have a building you'd like …


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