Tag New York, Usa

19-05-2022

Pei Cobb Freed & Partners – repositioning of the 1271 Avenue of the Americas tower

The new high-performance curtain wall of the 1271 Avenue of the Americas tower in New York has made it possible to preserve the image of the original building, built in the 1960s, but with significant energy savings. The repositioning project, created by the Pei Cobb Freed & Partners studio, received the Best Tall Building 2022 Award of Excellence in the Renovation category, awarded by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat.

17-05-2022

CLB Architects, FILTER sustainable pavilion in Times Square

FILTER, the steel and wood pavilion designed by CLB Architects for the Design Pavilion and the NYCxDesign Festival, was on display in Times Square, New York. A monumental object and an ephemeral experience, the pavilion is a space for quiet recentring within the fast-paced energy of Times Square, evoking the rugged Wyoming landscape from which it originates. All made with sustainable materials.

20-04-2022

Whitney Biennial 2022, Quiet as It’s Kept

Under the title Quiet as It's Kept, the 2022 Whitney Biennial exhibits an intergenerational, interdisciplinary group of sixty-three artists and collectives whose dynamic works reflect the challenges, complexity and possibilities of the American artistic experience today. All between April 6 and September 5 at the Whitney Museum of American Art, designed by architect Renzo Piano and located between the High Line and the Hudson River in New York.

04-04-2022

The NYCxDESIGN Festival is ten years old

The Big Apple’s famous design festival is about to be held for the tenth time, with a packed calendar of events between May 10 and 20 involving the creative community, cultural institutions, makers and artisans, design studios, schools and numerous enterprises, both large and small. In short, everyone capable of showing off the best New York has to offer in the field of design!

18-01-2022

The winners of the AIA New York Design Awards 2022

AIA New York has announced the winners of the 2022 Design Awards. Divided into four categories – Architecture, Interior, Projects and Urban Design – and selected by an independent jury, the 25 winners are projects carried out in the city of New York or in other parts of the world by New York-based architects. The local AIA New York chapter, in fact, is the oldest and largest section of the American Institute of Architects. Founded in 1857, it includes 5500 practicing architects, associated professionals, students and public members dedicated to architecture and design.

15-12-2021

Büro Koray Duman creates interior design for SIMÒ Pizza restaurant in New York

In New York, the Büro Koray Duman architecture studio has designed the new SIMÒ Pizza restaurant. The architects created an interior design focused on three key concepts: the open kitchen as a culinary performance space, a decorative pattern inspired by tradition and the square as a social space. The restaurant is located in Manhattan's bustling Greenwich Village and becomes a celebration of the historic New York district and of Naples, the client's home town.

14-12-2021

ISLANDS

Islands have always exerted a strong fascination, stimulating our fantasies and feeding since the dawn the narrative of the poetic and imaginary world of literature. They have inspired myths and legends that, without losing seductiveness over the decades, have continued to tickle the curiosity of entire generations. Atlantis and its civilization, mysteriously disappeared, is an example of this charismatic longevity that from Plato has continued to survive in science fiction stories and films, until the most recent video games, never fading its alluring and magnetic appeal.

19-11-2021

Mecanoo’s SNFL: renovation and expansion project on Fifth Avenue

The renovation of New York’s Mid-Manhattan Library by Mecanoo in association with Beyer Blinder Belle Architects & Planners has transformed the 1914 building into Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library.

19-10-2021

RE-BIRTHS

"There were already discussions about the landfill and I thought: very well, contemporary art makes people talk, let's add controversy to controversy"-Renzo Macelloni, Mayor of Peccioli