Deezen

APRIL 30, 2024

The first and only skyscraper designed by Finnish-American architect Eero Saarinen in New York City has undergone a renovation by Vocon Architects and MdeAS Architects to help it "meet the expectations of today". At the time, Saarinen called it the "simplest skyscraper statement in New York".

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Deezen

JULY 28, 2022

Philip Johnson's Glass House and a Frank Lloyd Wright home are among the buildings that leading American architects have selected as the USA 's most significant pieces of architecture of all time. Lever House, New York, by SOM (1952). Glass House, Connecticut, by Philip Johnson (1949).

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Deezen

JANUARY 19, 2024

The "forest belt", a 90-metre-wide landscaped stretch, provides distinction between the main block – housing check-in and security – and the terminal's gates. Other projects recently completed by SOM include the restoration of New York's historic Lever House and a block-long timber bridge connected to Manhattan's High Line.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

The latest edition of our weekly Dezeen Agenda newsletter features the completion of Foster + Partners' 425 Park Avenue skyscraper in New York. UK studio Foster + Partners completed 425 Park Avenue in New York, which is the first skyscraper to be built on Park Avenue in over 50 years. Subscribe to Dezeen Agenda now !

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Deezen

JANUARY 30, 2024

"In a continuously evolving Far West Side of Manhattan, this chapter brings a new destination to life that also establishes a vital link between the Midtown business district, the Penn Station complex, and Hudson Yards."

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Architizer

MARCH 7, 2024

By embracing ten globally applicable and adaptable principles drawn from proven strategies, sources and existing traditions worldwide, we will usher in a new era of design and planning that mitigates carbon emissions, enhances biodiversity, promotes efficient transportation, and fosters inclusive and thriving communities. Ample Parkland 4.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 27, 2022

British architecture studio Foster + Partners has completed a skyscraper in New York , which is the "first full-block office building" to be built on Park Avenue in over 50 years. Elsewhere in New York, the studio recently completed a supertall skyscraper that forms a part of the Hudson Yards development in Midtown Manhattan.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 28, 2022

The firm also completed the 425 Park Avenue skyscraper in New York. The studio also completed its long-awaited 425 Park Avenue development in New York , billed as the "first full-block office building" to be built on Park Avenue in more than 50 years.

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aasarchitecture

APRIL 11, 2024

Analogue Sites is installed along Park Avenue at East 53rd, 66th, and 67th Streets to respond to and engage with iconic modernist landmarks including the Seagram Building, the Lever House, and the historic Park Avenue Armory.

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Bustler

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

The event is rooted under the premise that retaining existing buildings and reusing materials are powerful levers in the race to decarbonize. Rather than perpetuating an extravagant cycle of demolition and new construction, which benefits a select few, retrofitting buildings and cities conserves resources and sustains communities in place.

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Dwell

JANUARY 24, 2024

As of this month, New Yorkers are officially, after 14 years, closer than ever to swimming in the East River—legally and safely, of course. I had no real intention of making it real; it would be a nice project to launch as an announcement of a new office. As is my understanding, de Blasio ran on a platform of affordable housing.

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e-architect

JANUARY 1, 2023

New York Architecture Designs, NYC Building News, Manhattan Real Estate Photos, USA City Images. New York Architecture News : NYC Building. New York Architecture – photo © Tim Collins. New York Architecture – photo © Tim Collins. New York Building News.

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aasarchitecture

DECEMBER 21, 2022

With construction now complete, immediate occupancy available, and a suite of newly furnished model residences, Selene offers perfect pied-à-terre residences with sweeping views of New York City. Photo © Katherine Marks. Photo © Katherine Marks. The iconic neighborhood is now sought as a destination for luxury living.

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Deezen

JULY 25, 2023

Architecture studio Christ & Gantebein recently completed the New Aare Bridge in Switzerland, which drew praise for its "timeless" sculptural concrete form. The structure has replaced a concrete crossing built in 1949 and features a pattern of vertical lines that takes cues from the town's stone buildings and medieval houses.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Because of new zoning laws, such a structure could not be built today, so Cimet Arquitectos was brought on restore the tower. The renovation included installing new dampeners and supports. The structure had been unoccupied for years. The tower was then reconnected to the foundation with 30 per cent more pilings.

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Portland Architecture

DECEMBER 12, 2022

A recent Seattle house was featured in a New York Times article called " A Modern Home That Looks Toward the Sky and the Water." Actually, my first architecture-related job was being a docent at Wright’s Gordon House in Silverton my senior year in high school. . Madrona House ( Kevin Scott ). .

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aasarchitecture

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Norman Foster attended the grand opening of 425 Park Avenue, the first full-block office building on New York’s Park Avenue in over 50 years. The new building is located alongside Modernist icons such as the Seagram Building, Lever House and the CBS Building, on the world’s grand boulevard of commerce.

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Architizer

JULY 6, 2022

Danish architect Jacobsen designed the Egg Chair for the Royal Hotel, SAS House (1955-1960). We all know that’s is hard to forget a first love and, for the design enthusiasts like us, the same can be true of a first encounter with a new design process or a style that speaks to you. New York, NY.

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Architecture Here and There

MARCH 26, 2022

The new book, just out, is, however, the biography of architecture’s own Zelig – he has always been around and pops up everywhere. … This was mogul modern in ways that the executive offices in Lever House or Seagram’s could never be. ” The office is pictured above. where I was primarily raised.

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Deezen

JUNE 1, 2023

Its work ranges from 1952's Lever House skyscraper in New York City to 2010's Burj Khalifa in Dubai. Read: SOM connects block-long glulam bridge to the High Line Skidmore, Owings and Merrill (SOM) is a global practice founded more than 80 years ago.

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Architizer

JANUARY 13, 2022

Currently, he is an Assistant Professor and Director of the Community Housing Identity Lab (CHIL) at the University Of Miami School Of Architecture. She is based in New York and Berlin, and current projects under construction include the reconversion of a ½ km long elevated structure in Re?i?a She is based in New York City.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

A major challenge we face over the next few decades is housing billions of people comfortably and safely while radically reducing emissions; 1.6 billion people currently live in inadequate housing, according to the UN. This approach reduced embodied carbon by around 8,000 tonnes compared to a new build. Reject the curtain wall.

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Archinect

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

One study in San Francisco referred to heat pumps as the "single most impactful lever" to reducing emissions. Electrifying heating will also be key to decarbonising buildings in the US, says Melissa Lott, director of research at the Centre on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University.

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Dwell

MAY 31, 2023

I had just moved to a new apartment in Brooklyn which was a clean slate for me. Alessi 9090 Espresso Maker Alessi 9090 Espresso Maker 9090 is the first espresso coffee maker in Alessi's history, but also the first of several Compasso d'Oro awards and the first Alessi item exhibited at the MOMA in New York. "I

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Portland Architecture

DECEMBER 2, 2021

It's that time of year again: accolades for the city's best architecture of the past year via the American Institute of Architects' Oregon Architecture Awards, this time juried by a trio of out-of-town architects: Pascale Sablan of David Adjaye Associates' New York office, Bryan C Lee Jr. Honor Awards.

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The Architect's Newsletter

DECEMBER 1, 2023

In 1952, SOM’s Lever House landed like a cool slab of wirecut soap hygienically set on a plinth along the stony, tony canyon of Park Avenue. Its post-war transcendence was The post With help from Marmol Radziner and Reed Hilderbrand, SOM’s Lever House receives a $100 million refresh appeared first on The Architect’s Newspaper.

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Portland Architecture

JUNE 13, 2023

Gradient House and Studio ( Jeremy Bittermann / JBSA ) BY BRIAN LIBBY Last fall the top prize at the local American Institute of Architects annual Oregon Architecture Awards , known as the Honor Award, went to a first-time winner: Linden, Brown Architecture for the Gradient House and Studio.

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The Architect's Newsletter

MAY 31, 2023

Today marks the 100th birthday of the late American artist and painter, Ellsworth Kelly best known for his freestanding geometric sculptures and bold-colored paneled works.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Conrad's innovative models were instrumental in the design and realization of many icons of American Modernism-from the Rockefeller Center to Lever House and the Seagram Building. He revolutionized the production of architectural models and became a model-making entrepreneur in his own right.

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Dwell

APRIL 18, 2022

They are stackable and come in a gorgeous array of colors so they always look chic no matter where they are around the house." Music is always playing in our house and is a big inspiration for everything we do at Backdrop. (We I recently bought a bunch of these Hay storage boxes and they immediately made me feel organized.

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Portland Architecture

APRIL 29, 2021

After interning with Studio Rick Joy in Arizona, then Steven Holl Architects in New York, his first job was with Pritzker Prize winner Richard Meier. Returning to Oregon in 2015, he worked for three years at Portland's Lever Architecture before setting out on his own.

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Architizer

DECEMBER 12, 2023

In addition, Seattle is a city that continually attracts some of the most visionary architectural projects, such as the Amazon Spheres — Amazon’s workspace housing an impressive range of plant species — not just through sustainable and technologically driven practices but also through socially invigorating designs.

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Deezen

JUNE 25, 2022

Made from slats, fins and blades, shutters can be used to control the amount of sunlight that enters a home, provide privacy, open the house up to scenic views and protect against extreme weather conditions such as wind or humidity. House in Chau Doc, Vietnam, by Nishizawa Architects. Find out more about House in Chau Doc ›.

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Portland Architecture

MAY 21, 2021

Since then, there have been conversations about housing in Portland and Los Angeles, downtown struggles in Portland and Detroit, material usage in Portland and Tokyo, and urban memory in Portland and Montgomery. I studied at Cooper Union in New York and worked at Pei Cobb Freed on urban design projects. Who doesn't?

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