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Curbed New York - Architecture 2012-08-16 19:20:00
City officials know how to sink a hook, so announced progress on the NY Aquarium's new makeover project during The Discovery Channel's "Shark Week", when everyone's spare attention is drawn by our favorite killers of the deep. The $150 million makeover of the aquarium will be centered around a new “Ocean Wonders: Sharks!” building, in which visitors will be able to …


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Curbed New York - Architecture 2012-08-16 19:20:00
City officials know how to sink a hook, so announced progress on the NY Aquarium's new makeover project during The Discovery Channel's "Shark Week", when everyone's spare attention is drawn by our favorite killers of the deep. The $150 million makeover of the aquarium will be centered around a new “Ocean Wonders: Sharks!” building, in which visitors will be able to …


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Curbed New York - Architecture 2012-08-09 20:10:00
Guy Maxwell of Ennead Architects thinks all the glass box and tower construction around New York (including his own) poses an unreasonable hazard to to our fine feathered friends the birds. His ideal solution: special glass that incorporates ceramic "frits" which can't be seen from the interior, but provide a visual texture that birds can see, and avoid. [NYNow]


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Curbed New York - Architecture 2012-08-08 23:25:00
New York is a maritime city—founded for its harbor, surrounded by water, and suckled on the riches of oceanic and waterways trade. This connection to the sea and waterways is reflected in its built environment, which serve up subliminal cues reminding New Yorkers of their nautical environment. [UntappedNY]


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Curbed New York - Architecture 2012-07-25 16:30:29
The 2012 Summer Olympics will begin in London at the end of this week, but they were almost held here—New York City was one of four cities to lose to London in the competition to host this year's Olympics. If NYC had won, making room for all of the athletes and events would have been quite the architectural and redevelopment feat …


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Curbed New York - Architecture 2012-07-16 23:55:08
Be not afeared: Defenestrated is Curbed's architecture column, from the minds of Thomas de Monchaux and/or Philip Nobel. Send thoughts and leads to defenestrated@curbed.com. Here now, Thomas de Monchaux on SHoP's East River projects. The trouble with cities is that they won't stay still. The trouble with buildings is that they will. Architects will tell you (sometimes even honestly) that their designs …


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Curbed New York - Architecture 2012-07-16 21:15:13
Tribeca Citizen has a useful rundown of all the new condo buildings coming to Tribeca—13 buildings, for a total of 450 new apartments. Architect Morris Adjmi is involved with five of those buildings. Way to put a stamp on Tribeca, friend. Of course, that fact is overshadowed by the reminder that 56 Leonard is allegedly coming back this year. [Tribeca Citizen] …


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Curbed New York - Architecture 2012-07-05 21:35:49
The lower East Side's ABC No Rio is on the way to becoming a passive house, designed to meet German standards of near-total airtightness and energy efficiency, but one NYC building got there before it. The above house, at 23 Park Place in Park Slope, recently became NYC's first certified passive house. (A few other projects have been built to passive …


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Curbed New York - Architecture 2012-06-25 20:35:22
Click here to view the full photogallery. Lower East Side arts collective ABC No Rio has been in the process, slowly, of replacing its building at 156 Rivington Street with a new one. After one theatrical building funeral and a few anonymous cash infusions, the collective's new building is in the construction bid phase. At a conference on passive houses this weekend, …


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Curbed New York - Architecture 2012-06-19 16:30:04
Click here to view the full photogallery. The Brooklyn Bridge Park Corporation has, as expected, voted on which developers get to build the hotel and residential complex next to Pier 1. And, also as expected, Toll Brothers and Starwood Capital Group are the winners! Their project, a 10-story hotel and residential complex and another five-story residential building, will be designed by Rogers …


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Curbed New York - Architecture 2012-06-15 18:55:08
Click here to view the full photogallery. After a few months of deliberations, the Brooklyn Bridge Park Corporation is expected to vote Tuesday on which developers get to build the hotel and residential complex next to Pier 1. The likely developers? Toll Brothers and Starwood Capital Group, according to Crain's and the Times. The two companies originally made separate entries to the …


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Curbed New York - Architecture 2012-06-11 15:30:14
Friday was the 145th birthday of Frank Lloyd Wright, and in his honor, the folks at PropertyShark put together a cool slideshow illustrating 190 years of residential architecture in New York City. The slideshow shows one residential building constructed each year. Favorites? We're kinda fond of 1840, but we're only one and a half centuries in so far. · NYC Homes: Two …


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Curbed New York - Architecture 2012-06-08 23:14:05
Be not afeared: Defenestrated is Curbed's architecture column, from the minds of Thomas de Monchaux and/or Philip Nobel. Send thoughts and leads to defenestrated@curbed.com. Here now, Thomas de Monchaux on the approval process for NYU 2031. Is it possible to do something bad so well that it becomes something good? Or conversely, to do the right thing so badly that it become …


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Curbed New York - Architecture 2012-05-31 15:20:22
Click here to view the full photogallery. Event: The architects at SHoP have a new monograph, Out of Practice, and they had a party at Pier 15 to celebrate. We've been there before, but we couldn't resist the chance to visit again. And this time there were people! In the House: Architects and publishing types. Dress Code: Architect black and summer wear. Menu: Snacks with …


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Curbed New York - Architecture 2012-05-22 21:20:00
The latest Batman graphic novel titled "Death By Design" focuses on the state of architecture in Gotham City, and features a new villain and archicritic named Exacto. Or is he a vigilante exposing the dark underbelly of Gotham's building trades? [i9 via Archinect]


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Curbed New York - Architecture 2012-05-19 03:05:00
NYC—The NYTimes has a recurring feature for which kids can submit drawings depicting stories in the news. This week's theme was the story about people stealing manhole covers. The most interesting thing about this particular contest was a submission from an 11-year-old who named all the buildings in the background after fast food-like items. Who wouldn't want to stay at Hotel …


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Curbed New York - Architecture 2012-05-19 00:55:09
[Via PSFK.] How about putting schools on the tops of NYC skyscrapers? The concept comes from a trio of Portuguese architects, whose idea won them an honorable mention in a contest called "Rooftops, Why Not?" The concept, like many a feature at the top of a tall building, is symbolic. The architects explain, via PSFK: "'What if suddenly the education would become …


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Curbed New York - Architecture 2012-05-11 16:10:00
[Photos from AFineBlog.com] The #1 complaint we normally hear from out-of-towners staying overnight in New York: "How can you sleep with all this big city noise?" It helps not to book a hotel room in the traffic-choked, lights-blazing, epicenter of night time distractions that is Times Square, but the new Hyatt going up at the 'Crossroads of The World' is helping to …


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Curbed New York - Architecture 2012-05-10 18:40:17
Be not afeared: Defenestrated is Curbed's new architecture column, from the minds of Thomas de Monchaux and/or Philip Nobel. Send thoughts and leads to defenestrated@curbed.com. Here now, Thomas de Monchaux on the Brooklyn Botanic Garden's new visitor center. [All photos of the visitor center by Jessica Dailey. Click to expand!] Among the many exotic specimens first cultivated in the botanical gardens of …


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Curbed New York - Architecture 2012-05-10 17:50:12
Click here to view the full photogallery. The vertical city is the subject and celebration of Stewart Mader's photo-blog Elevator View. The site features dozens of images of New York's skyline taken amidst the skyline. The resulting perspective is simultaneously grand and intimate. Mader began the project in January 2011 when he was working out of the 22nd floor of a midtown …


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