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Long Island City explodes architecturally ahead of Amazon’s arrival

With Amazon’s announcement that it is building half of its new corporate headquarters – AKA HQ2 – in Long Island City, Queens, the world’s spotlight has focused squarely on this once low-key, low-scale industrial section of New York. But Amazon...

Our first look inside Fifteen Hudson Yards by Diller Scofidio + Renfro and Rockwell Group

One of New York’s most highly anticipated new neighbourhoods, Hudson Yards has been in frenzied construction for a few years now; and results are slowly starting to show. Ahead of the opening of some of the area’s key publicly accessed...

Peter Marino reveals interiors at The Getty in New York’s Chelsea gallery district

There’s Donald Trump luxury, and then there’s real luxury. Architect Peter Marino, who is responsible for the design of practically every luxury retail outlet — Dior’s SoHo store, Bvlgari’s Rome outpost and a number of Chanel boutiques around the world...

Daniel Libeskind and Swarovski unveil Rockefeller Center Christmas tree star in NYC

Nothing signals the start of the holiday season like the unveiling of the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree, and this year, there is one more reason to celebrate; renowned New York architect Daniel Libeskind has joined forces with crystal experts Swarovski to...

DDG launches townhouse inside a Beaux Arts building in Brooklyn

In Brooklyn Heights, the 171 Columbia Heights condominium developed by DDG and Westbrook Partners and designed by DDG’s in-house design team, has launched a model residence curated by Atelier Armbruster that captures the elegance of the late Beaux Arts period...

WeWork and BIG reimagine education with WeGrow, a new school in New York

Class is back in session this autumn as WeWork reveals its first foray into education: WeGrow, a school reimagined as an educative playscape at the heart of New York City, for three-to-nine year olds. Realised in partnership with Danish architects...

Paul Kasmin reveals fourth gallery space designed by studioMDA

Standing just outside the shadows of Zaha Hadid’s futuristic condo building, 520 West 28th Street, and the High Line is the latest addition to New York’s Chelsea district – a newly built fourth gallery space for the art dealer Paul...

Peter Marino designs Lehmann Maupin’s new Chelsea gallery in New York

With almost every inch of New York’s West Chelsea neighbourhood now claimed, an exciting new residential building has sprouted up where the iconic Getty gas station once stood. Designed by Peter Marino, The Getty is comprised of six apartments –...

Storefront for Art and Architecture’s rotating bookshelf creates a sidewalk library in NYC

Abruzzo Bodziak Architects has designed a new bookshelf system that rotates into the street for the Storefront for Art and Architecture’s ‘Architecture books – yet to be written’ exhibition. Visitors strolling by will have the chance to peruse the shelves of...

Beirut-based Raëd Abillama Architects reveals first US project, Abi Chelsea

‘A legacy of bold and gracious living since 1472’, chirps the marketing blurb for Abi Chelsea, the first project in the US by Lebanese practice Raëd Abillama Architects. Quoting some 300-years of heritage in excellence may sound incredulous, but for Raëd and his brother...

Manhattan’s Mercedes House residences get a modern Mexican revamp

When Two Trees Management unveiled its avant-garde residential project Mercedes House back in 2012, its memorable zigzag form, designed by Enrique Norten of TEN Arquitectos, immediately granted it landmark status. Six years on, the rental-only building in Manhattan’s Hell’s Kitchen...