Tag New York, Usa

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

05-10-2021

SOM Skidmore, Owings & Merrill - Manhattan West renovates Far West Side in New York

Manhattan West, a complex of six mixed-use buildings designed in large part by the Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) studio and developed by Brookfield Properties was officially inaugurated on September 28. An adventure that originally began thirty years ago, the first development programme to transform the unused space located above the active railway lines, an essential point in the pedestrian paths that connect New York’s West Side, in fact goes back to 1990.

01-09-2021

Architectural storytelling by Heliotrope Architects in NYC

Seattle-based Heliotrope Architects has designed the renovation of the Filson NYC Flagship Store in mid-town Manhattan. It all originated with the conversion of a mattress shop that now houses an old barn, the central element in the architectural storytelling of the new shop.

24-06-2021

Archi-Tectonics designs 512GW Townhouse in New York

The Archi-Tectonics studio, led by architect Winka Dubbeldam completed, in 2020, an interesting renovation and conversion project in New York’s upscale Soho district. An industrial warehouse with a rectangular floor plan – narrow and elongated – has been transformed into a residential structure. Four new floors were built to double the space available and obtain an 8-story residential tower. In addition, a so-called Climate Skin was added, a special 3D envelope that envelops the building and, just like human skin, helps regulate the temperature of the interior spaces.

11-05-2021

CARLA JUAÇABA

Carla Juaçaba is an architect who aims to provoke and feed the participatory imagination of her audience, through a rich synthesis of provocations expressed in the essentiality of her interventions. The concept that feeds her design stems from the belief that incompleteness is an inexhaustible source of inspiration, able to continually renew itself, and that abstract helps to make the invisible visible.

23-04-2021

KUSAMA: Cosmic Nature, an exhibition at the New York Botanical Garden.

A new exhibition has opened at the New York Botanical Garden - KUSAMA: Cosmic Nature, dedicated to the latest pieces by famous Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama. Installations that evoke the great fascination that the artist has always had for the natural world, but which also provide an opportunity to enjoy the wonderful landscapes of the botanical garden in which they have been set up.

16-04-2021

David Chipperfield Architects completes a residential project at 11-19 Jane Street, New York

David Chipperfield Architects’ London studio recently completed a residential construction at 11-19 Jane Street, New York. The six-storey red brick building includes two duplex townhouses, apartments and a penthouse with a roof garden, in a project inspired by the architecture of Greenwich Village that reinforces the identity of this historic neighbourhood.

30-03-2021

EDIBLE GARDENS

“When the classical world has finally been worn out, when all the artisans and peasants have died out, when there are no longer fireflies, bees and butterflies, when industry has set up an unstoppable cycle of production, then history will have ended for us”, - Pier Paolo Pasolini

26-03-2021

Young Projects’ zinc-clad house in New York

Renovation of an early twentieth-century townhouse produces a building with an inner patio and a zinc-clad façade.