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Studio Reports

The Speculation Studio: Governors Island, The Sixth Borough?

Laurie Hawkinson shares student work and discusses the meanings of 'speculation', collaborations between architecture and real estate students, and the return of big ideas.

Layers of History: The Orchard Beach Pavilion

Curator Deborah Wye explains how the Orchard Beach Pavilion inspired her to research and present the building's history, to advocate for its preservation and to explore the city through some of its neglected civic architecture.

Starrett City: A Home of One's Own — With Party Walls

Rosalie Genevro offers a historical snapshot of Starrett City and challenges us to question conventional notions of "house" and "home" in American culture.

From the Archives: Brooklyn Army Terminal

Since 1919, a former military depot in Sunset Park has seen three million troops, the US Post Office, refugees, biotechnology, Elvis Presley and, later this month, the League's Beaux Arts Ball.

Gowanus Lowline: Connections

David Briggs and Anthony Deen share the winning designs from the first of a series of competitions that address the challenges of developing contaminated urban areas.

BMW Guggenheim Lab: Confronting Comfort

Six of the minds behind the New York installment of an international traveling laboratory for urban experimentation discuss the theme of comfort in urban space.

The Oyster Restoration Research Project

A broad partnership dedicated to restoring oysters to New York Harbor is using science, policy and community engagement to improve the health of our waterways and stabilize our shorelines.

Solar Decathlon

Representatives from three interdisciplinary teams of college students in the New York metro area share how they are taking on the challenge of this year’s Solar Decathlon.

Studio Reports

Bronx Lower Concourse Housing

Bronwyn Breitner and James Slade describe how their students reconsidered one of our most familiar architectural spaces, the residence, in the context of the Bronx's Lower Concourse.

Situ Studio: Patterns of Motion and Places of Pause

A conversation with Situ Studio about creating spaces for public assembly, catalyzing social interaction and how geoscience and forensic analysis inform their design practice.