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20-01-2021

Winners of the 2021 AIANY Design Awards

AIA New York’s annual Design Awards program recognises outstanding architectural design by AIA New York members. This year’s jury met online to select the winners in four of the five categories: Architecture, Interiors, Projects, and Urban Design. No awards were given this year in the Sustainability category.

08-01-2021

SOM designs Daniel Patrick Moynihan Train Hall in New York

The new Daniel Patrick Moynihan Train Hall, the new train hall at the Pennsylvania Station, in New York, opened its doors to the public on January 1, 2021. The project was designed by architecture firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) inside the historic James A. Farley Post Office Building. A monumental and important civic project that transforms the way millions of people interact with one of the world’s largest cities, reimagining the travel experience and restoring the grandeur of a historic complex.

20-11-2020

Emilio Ambasz donates to MoMA to establish a new green research institute

The Emilio Ambasz Institute for the Joint Study of the Built and the Natural Environment is to be located on MoMA’s Midtown Manhattan campus within the Department of Architecture and Design. It will be dedicated to understanding the interaction between architecture and ecology. It was founded thanks to the donation of the famous designer and architect Emilio Ambasz, a visionary in the field of green architecture.

06-10-2020

ONSTAGE: INTERVIEW WITH JINHEE PARK, SsD

“Our goal is to become educated and enthusiastic generalists: To not be limited by silos of knowledge but instead further the larger project of architecture and urbanism through creating new links between cultural, technological, and political influences and frameworks.”—SsD

23-09-2020

SPEED & SUSTAINABILITY

"There are just some things you have to learn through experience…when you work for yourself, you have to pay for all the mistakes you do”, Jinhee Park, SsD.

09-06-2020

I WOULD LIKE TO GO BACK TO KINDERGARTEN

“Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it" - Roald Dahl

05-06-2020

Farewell to Christo, artist and pioneer of land art

"Beauty, science and art will always triumph": words written by Christo in a letter back in 1958, but which today remain as the most important legacy that the artist has left to the world through his unique works. A press release issued by Christo's press office on his official Facebook page, sadly communicated to the world that on May 31, 2020 the artist died of natural causes in his New York home, at the age of 84.

07-04-2020

CannonDesign, creative ideas in the time of COVID-19

At this moment in time when social distancing is being used to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, the team from US architecture studio, CannonDesign are doing what they can to help. Being architects, they’re doing it how they know best, with a reflection on street signs and with a walk-in, COVID-19 testing booth slated for the general public.

01-04-2020

Italian design takes centre stage in New York and China with Vudafieri-Saverino Partners

Italian firm Vudafieri-Saverino Partners recently completed two important projects. In China, the Italian firm designed a new concept for Glory Casa’s showrooms, a brand of made in Italy furnishing accessories. In New York, on the other hand, Vudafieri-Saverino Partners designed the first American flagship for Delvaux, a Belgian luxury leather goods brand.