LOW COST, HIGH SPEED SHELTERS
The Tokyo-based firm Shigeru Ban Architects (SBA), known for its ecologically sensitive, flexibly programmed structures, is seeking financial support for their effort to help victims displaced by the recent earthquake and tsunami in Japan. SBA plan to deploy simple, cardboard and paper partition shelters, originally…
A FERRY FEASIBLE PROPOSAL?
The Bloomberg Administration continues to make WAVES (Waterfront Vision and Enhancement Strategy) along the city’s waterfront with a ferry service to open later this year. Boats will stop in Greenpoint, Dumbo, downtown Brooklyn and East 34th Street with a potential to expand and connect more remote sites around the city like JFK, La Guardia, Bay Ridge, Coney Island, Hunt’s Point, Soundview and City Island. In hope that…
It’s awards season… and while the worlds of design and urbanism may not be able to claim anything as glamorous as the Oscars or the Grammys, the Municipal Art Society manages to bring a mix of style and substance to a range of awards in the urban realm. One of these is the…
LACK OF VISION 2020?
Diving deep into the politics behind the “sixth borough,” Tom Angotti takes Vision 2020 to task in a Gotham Gazette editorial questioning the bucolic wetland preservation and public recreation envisioned in the waterfront plan. “Behind the frothy rhetoric designed to garner public support, Vision…
STATE OF THE CITY
Mayor Bloomberg delivered the State of the City address on Wednesday. His focus was on neighborhood specific issues, including various changes ranging from livery cab policies to urban technology innovations. “Transformation” — economic, technological, physical, social, and otherwise — and “simplicity” were the words of the day. The Staten Island Navy..
After this morning’s F train delays, the reopening of the Roosevelt Island tram will come as even more of a relief to the island’s commuters. The iconic cherry-red tram will again grace Manhattan skies after a 9-month hiatus, during which it underwent $25 million…
“2010 will bring New York City’s first Comprehensive Waterfront Plan in a generation. Will this plan be adequate? How will we implement it? A world-class waterfront is an expensive but worth-while investment. How can we secure the necessary capital dollars …
PARK TOUR AND BIKE RIDE
This Saturday, Architectural League group Design in 5 is hosting a park tour and bike ride of Hudson River Park and the West Harlem Piers, two of…
Almost exactly one year ago, the Museum of Modern Art and PS1 launched an unprecedented interdisciplinary experiment meant to re-think New York Harbor in light of climate change, sea level rise and storm surge. The project, Rising Currents, elevated …
Open House New York is unlocking doors and waiving admission fares all across the city this weekend. Have you signed up to explore Bayside’s Fort Totten? A peak inside the Chrysler Building? A Cathedral tour of St John the Divine? From historic homes to botanic…
