Anthony Vidler, an architectural historian who, beginning in the 1960s, reshaped his field by setting aside dry chronologies of styles and movements for an interdisciplinary approach borrowing from psychoanalysis, French literary theory and cultural…
Dezeen School Shows: a project examining the street furniture in Manhattan‘s Chinatown district is included in Dezeen’s latest school show by students at City College of New York.
Also included is a project that explores the…
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On a mild October day in 1929, the architect William Van Alen…
Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) celebrates the opening of The Spiral, its latest tower in New York City. The 66-story, 1,031-foot-tall skyscraper rises amidst the fast-developing Hudson Yards on West…
Joshua Ramus really doesn’t want to talk about Rem Koolhaas anymore.
Seventeen years ago Ramus, then 36, a diligent, buzz-cut partner at the New York office of Koolhaas’s famed architecture firm, OMA,…
To the ever-expanding Hudson Yards skyline in Manhattan, architect Bjarke Ingels is adding a twist on a familiar shape. His latest skyscraper design, a 2.8-million-square-foot office building called The Spiral, sets back like one of the classic “wedding cake” ziggurat…
Architecture studio BIG has announced the completion of The Spiral, the studio’s first supertall skyscraper and first commercial high-rise in New York City that features a “ziggurat silhouette”.
It reaches 1,031 feet (314 metres) into the…
“Quiet luxury, oh God,” Isabel Wilkinson Schor, the designer of Attersee, said with a small sigh. “I don’t consider us a part of that trend at all. It’s been around for a very…
Emmanuel Thingue laughed as he nimbly scampered up the jungle gym to have his photograph taken.
At 61, he was the oldest person on the playground equipment at Lincoln Terrace Park in…
