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Be sure to join us on July 8th for the latest in the Architectural League’s Conversations on New York series of public… 
In the past, keys to a city were reserved for the heroic and the honored. Now, thanks to artist Paul Ramírez Jonas, you can bestow a key to New York City upon your own personal hero. Through June 27th, “Key to the City” will distribute 35,000 free keys…
Traffic in Lisbon – emphasis on sluggish areas from Pedro M Cruz on Vimeo.
It’s been a week of big projects, big plans, and big ideas.
New York University has announced the NYU 2031 plan, an anticipated 40% growth of the institution in the city over the…
App-lovers take note: the NYC Economic Development Corporation has presented the winners of its NYC BigApps contest. The winners, who received cash prizes ranging from $500 to $5,000, include the grand prize-winning WayFinder NYC, an augmented reality application that helps users find…
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Diana Balmori shares a flexible and inexpensive design scheme – complete with public engagement a la Twitter – to create street furniture and plantings that reimagine the public space of Gansevoort Plaza. |
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Before Balmori Associates began to develop the the design scheme detailed here, they first opened up the question of what a public space should be. Designers from the studio joined 40 Dutch urban design students and their teachers for a lively conversation that engaged the opinions of people around the neighborhood and the… |
So, CUP’s Nehemiah talk last night was dope. Reverend Dr. Youngblood and architect Alexander Gorlin delivered on their promise to share some of the fascinating back-story of how they teamed up to design and built the Spring Creek Nehemiah Houses and how, against the odds, East Brooklyn Congregations built almost 3,000…
While it’s exciting that Broadway’s redesign is busy shouting to New York City what was whispered to Kevin Costner’s character in Field of Dreams: “If you build it, they will come,” what’s more thrilling from a transportation perspective is that the redesign might also be convincing people of the inverse: If you take it away…
