Collaborate Disseminate
Google has commissioned the ambitious transformation of a 1930s rail terminal into a new headquarters in New York City. Named St. John’s Terminal, the building has been massively upgraded, including the addition of high-tech sustainability features and… Continue reading Google’s new HQ goes off the rails for big CO2 savings
Influential firm the Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) has revealed plans for an ambitious new four-skyscraper project in New York City. Named Freedom Plaza, two of the towers will meet at the top with a dramatically cantilevering skybridge and one of the bigg… Continue reading NYC skyscrapers to meet at the top with skybridge and infinity pool
Marin Architects has revealed its design for an eye-catching new tower in Manhattan, New York City, that will cleverly navigate local planning laws and boost its interior floorspace with a dramatically cantilevering form that juts out 25 ft (7.6 m).Con… Continue reading Manhattan tower boosts floorspace with dramatically cantilevering form
Those who haven’t experienced the destruction of a house fire should consider themselves lucky. The speed with which fire can erase a lifetime of work — or a life, for …read more Continue reading Retrotechtacular: Rebuilding a Fire-Ravaged Telephone Exchange
The journey from having a neat idea to actually realizing it can be long and arduous, as shown by the + Pool. Some 13 years after we first saw it, the plan to creating a floating and self-filtering swimming pool that helps New Yorkers cool off is final… Continue reading Plus-shaped pool will offer New Yorkers a cleaner swim in the river
Just weeks after its first manned flight in the California desert, Joby Aviation has taken its S4 eVTOL air taxi out for a piloted demo flight in the Big Apple, demonstrating just how much quieter and less disruptive it’ll be than a helicopter.Continue… Continue reading Joby makes a manned eVTOL air taxi flight in NYC
The Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) has completed its first ever supertall skyscraper. Named The Spiral, the extraordinary office building enlivens the Manhattan skyline with a ribbon of greenery that wraps around its exterior as it rises, creating outdoor t… Continue reading 1,000-ft ribbon of green extends the High Line into New York’s skyline
Practice for Architecture and Urbanism (PAU) recently completed an ambitious renovation of Brooklyn’s 19th century Domino Sugar Refinery. The firm retained the main brick shell of the historic building and inserted an all-new modern and energy efficien… Continue reading Gleaming glass office inserted into historic 19th century building
SHoP Architects has completed the first supertall skyscraper in Brooklyn, New York City. The residential tower rises to a height of 1,066 ft (325 m) and is defined by an extraordinary blackened stainless steel, copper and bronze facade that integrates … Continue reading Brooklyn’s first supertall skyscraper turns heads with intricate facade
Following the Avenir, another major skyscraper project has received a thumbs-up for construction in Manhattan, New York City. Designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF), the eye-catching tower will be the only residential skyscraper to be built on the World T… Continue reading Eye-catching residential skyscraper approved for World Trade Center site