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New York selects six Empire Building Challenge partners to boost the state's energy efficiency

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New York Governor Kathy Hochul has just announced the addition of six new strategic partners to the $50 million Empire Building Challenge in aims of enhancing the state’s stock of energy-efficient buildings. million square feet of high-rise buildings statewide that are included in the Challenge.

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New York Preservation League honors eight advocates and historic projects across the Empire State

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The Preservation League of New York State has announced its annual slate of winners for the 39-year-old Excellence in Historic Preservation Awards program.

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Michael Kimmelman again asks: 'Should New York regulate its skyline?'

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A generation ago, the New York skyline was a global icon, shaped more or less like a suspension bridge stretched between the Empire State and the Twin Towers, making it possible to, say, pop out of some unfamiliar subway station, gaze up toward the clouds and orient oneself along the skyline’s north-south axis.

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New York Governor Kathy Hochul announces $200 million grant program to attract high-tech industries across the state

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New York Governor Kathy Hochul has announced plans to set aside $200 million for the new Focused Attraction of Shovel-Ready Tracts New York (FAST NY) grant program, which aims to attract and expand key growth industries to New York State.

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‘Not Having to Worry about Proportion, Harmony, and Beauty Is a Cop-Out’: A Conversation with 2024 Driehaus Prize Winner Peter Pennoyer

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Image © Nicholas Knight | Empire State Development This article was originally published on Common Edge. Even within the world of design media, it was easy to miss the news: In late January, Notre Dame’s School of Architecture announced that Peter Pennoyer, a New York–based architect and author, had won the 2024 Richard H.

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Minecraft's crowdsourced NYC design is insane

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Incorporating a replacement for the obsolete Mercator projection maps they call Airocean, an impressive workforce of over 2,700 Minecraft users started at the 9/11 Memorial Site and has to date completed mostly exterior versions of different New York area landmarks like the Statue of Liberty , Empire State Building , and Brooklyn Bridge.

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Penn Station's proposed redevelopment is raising the specter of 'blight'-backed urban planning tactics in Manhattan

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New York State has decreed that it is, and Gov. ” She was defending the controversial plan to allow developers to build 10 towers around the decrepit train station — the busiest transit hub in the nation — in exchange for some of the $7 billion the state needs to renovate it. Does that make it blighted?