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MyBlockNYC

Two of the co-founders of an innovative “video map” of New York discuss personal expression, urban exploration and the civic possibilities of video.

Fast-Tracked: Who Decides Where the Subway Goes?

Alexandra Woolsey Puffer and Jeff Maki share the results of a high school student team’s investigation into transit planning and the westward expansion of the 7 line.

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.

BMW Guggenheim Lab: Confronting Comfort | Elma van Boxel and Kristian Koreman

"It is the ultimate virtue for architecture in an urban context to create or activate the public domain."

BMW Guggenheim Lab: Confronting Comfort | Olatunbosun Obayomi

"The city can be likened to a living microbe."

BMW Guggenheim Lab: Confronting Comfort | Charles Montgomery

"Comfort is an infinitely relative commodity, and thus a marker of status."

BMW Guggenheim Lab: Confronting Comfort | Maria Nicanor

"We asked for a space in which we could do everything and anything."

BMW Guggenheim Lab: Confronting Comfort | Omar Freilla

"Most of us live in our own little bubbles. We know the world that we walk in every single day."

LaHood and Porcari: Transportation Financing and Infrastructure Innovation

Montage City

Three architecture students share videos that poetically explore Coney Island, Willets Point and the Brooklyn Bridge.