New York Street Furniture
Grimshaw image
  • Throughout New York City
  • STATUS: Installation
  • COMPLETED: 2012
  • SIZE: 3650 pieces
  • # COMMENTS: 90
The new street furniture will provide a new icon for New York and subtly unify the streetscape.
What Do You Think?
“The design achieves 2 goals: simple and affordable. It makes me wonder if the money could have been better appropriated to improving the bus service itself. What about graffiti though? I'm sure a little spray paint on the glass could ruin the sleekness.”

Katie, East Village

04-16-2007

High Line
Diller Scofidio + Renfro/Field Operations image
  • 10th Avenue & 23rd Street
  • STATUS: Phasing
  • COMPLETED: 2009
  • SIZE: 22 blocks
  • # COMMENTS: 2
The historic High Line rail structure offers a grand, public promenade that can be enjoyed by all residents and visitors in New York City.
What Do You Think?
“I like the idea of making use of the industrial infrastructure - using it as a catalyst for new real estate development is definitely a positive thing. That is probably less costly than dismantling the whole thing. Was there a study done to look at real estate value increases if the highline was removed versus developing it in this way? Couldn't all those things in the mission statement of revealing that significant part of the city's industrial past be accomplished with keeping only a four block section and landmarking it? Just curious. I live on the west side too, and there are no people of color shown in your renderings - those are my neighbors on 10th! i hope they can use it. thanks! ”

D Adamsen, Manhattan - Chelsea

11-17-2007

New York Times Building
Renzo Piano/FXFOWLE Architects image
The design incorporates a transparent glass tower screened by planes of glazed ceramic tubes that seem to float above the street.
Do cross-cultural projects collaborations such as the NYT with Renzo Piano Studio and FXFOWLE work better than single-firm projects?
“What role did the United Federation of Teachers play in investing in the land and flipping it to make$? How will this project contribute toi creating affordable housing? Even projec ts designated as affordable bypass huge segments of the hom eless population. There are currently more than 10, 000 homeless veterans on the streets of NYC now! 350,000 nationwide on any given day!”

Peter Bronson, Location

08-22-2007

Remsen Yard
Kiss + Cathcart image
Remsen Yard, a maintenance facility for NYC’s Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), supports both its water and sewer operations.
What Do You Think?
“Albright-Knox style rotunda with stairs would suit all managedd facilities as long as industrial style Remsen projecs are kept wholesome, to the view of passerbys. wt. . . . . . prosze widac ta daleko jest nie-sobie do dlugo rzeczy do dlugo masz w cierpliwy raz. Albright Knox jest czesc do Buffalo . . . ”

Paul Felski-Flisowski , Location

03-11-2008

The Bank of America Tower at One Bryant Park
Cook + Fox Architects image
The Bank of America Tower at One Bryant Park aims to be the first Platinum level LEED-certified building in New York City.
How can a building respond to its environment (including you)?
“I'm curious how the line was drawn between doing the most to save energy and designing lighting for the building to "create a night time presence".”

rachel gellman, village

01-28-2008

Poe Park
Toshiko Mori Architects image
The Poe Park Visitor Center is an educational facility to support the surrounding community.
What Do You Think?
“This design is extremely too retro. It's a return to Philip Johnson in the 50's. The proposed building should really be designed more in synch with the social demographics of the South Bronx. It will definatley seem out of place if built.”

Maritza Rivera, NYC

01-04-2008

Seaside Nature Park
Department of Parks and Recreation image
The natural beauty of the site has been preserved and enhanced with native plantings and preservation and expansion of its wetlands.
EMS Station 50
Dean/Wolf Architects image
The "home base" for seven ambulances, EMS Station 50 will occupy an edge of the existing Queens Hospital campus facing Goethals Avenue.
Ground Zero
Memorial & Towers image
Towers 1, 2, 3, 4, and 7 and the memorial designs will collectively reshape the World Trade Center site by 2012.
What Do You Think?
“I think that a more "uniform" archiecture in this unique site instead of this "DisneyLand" of architectural styles and visions would have been really better. It seems now a fake composition of layers from different times and concepts totally diffrent from the original WTC that was coherent with itself. That kind of vision was done by Libeskind and the other competition entrees but now has been completely changed and has lost his unity.”

Andrea Tocchini, London, UK

03-10-2008

245 Tenth Avenue
Della Valle Bernheimer image
A residential condominium located at the epicenter of Manhattan’s West Chelsea gallery district.
What Do You Think?
“Alas, a building which posseses an artistic and transcendental quality. I think this is a refreshing winner for NYC. It will bring a much needed breath of fresh air to the city's saturated rows of concrete squarish buildings in this part of town (Chelsea).”

Maritza Rivera, NYC

01-04-2008

Re:Construction
Downtown Alliance/Lower Manhattan Cultural Council
 
Re:Construction channels the energy of Downtown’s rebuilding process by recasting construction sites as ‘canvases’ for innovative public art and architecture.
Columbia University Expansion
Manhattanville image
The proposed long-term expansion of Columbia University in the old Manhattanville manufacturing zone in West Harlem.
Governors Island Redevelopment
Governors Island Preservation and Education Corporation image
West 8 proposed an extensive and coherent design for this 2nd park for New York.
What do you find interesting in the park designs that should be explored further?
“I have often thought that Governor's Island could be dedicated to the Eldery and to homeless youth. These are the most vulnerable citizens in NYC so an Island would be a safe haven. •Excellent re-use/re-habilitation potential for of the existing historic architecture • plus some child and geriatric services • in a beautiful public park. • Assign each child a resident "grandparent"; give everyone the support they need. Dreamy.”

R Strickstein, Manhattan

12-17-2007

West Side Rail Yards
Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) image
MTA selects Related Companies/Goldman Sachs to develop the West Side Rail Yards after the collapse of the Tishman Speyer agreement.
What Do You Think?
“For far too long this strip of Manhattan's west side has sat desolate and underutilized. Today is a monumental and exciting occasion as we take the first official step towards developing this land. I look forward to the important work yet ahead where, through the City's land use review process, we will work to seek and incorporate public input to make sure the development plans meet community goals such as creating new permanently affordable housing, successful open space and critical public infrastructure.”

Scott Stringer, Manhattan Borough President, New York, NY

11-27-2007

Sea Glass
The Carousel at the Battery image
The Carousel at the Battery is an innovative, aquatic-themed ride for Downtown residents, workers and visitors from around the world.
What Do You Think?
“I love carousels, and so do my kids!”

Brenda Orton, Downtown

04-12-2007

Fulton Street Transit Center
Downtown Manhattan image
The Fulton Street Transit Center is designed to be a catalyst for the redevelopment of this area.
What Do You Think?
“How about glass platform doors. Also, given the high cost of this real estate, why let the air rights go to waste? With apartment / office space rates as high as they are in Manhattan a 90-story structure atop the new transit hub could be quickly filled generating additional revenue to help finance the project.”

Anonymous, NYC

10-06-2007

Lehman College Life Sciences Facility
Perkins+Will image
A new building for the study of life sciences at Lehman College, designed with the knowledge of high-level research design and a goal of LEED Gold.
What issues are most important in planning the future of the city's higher education instutions?
“LEED GOLD-nice, CUNY-Now How about a recycling program on your campuses? ”

Holly, NYC

09-14-2007

St. John's University Writing Center
Perkins+Will image
The St. John's University Writing Center is an invigorating educational environment thoughtfully executed with a flexible, technologically forward edge.
Surf Avenue Pedestrian Bridge
Weisz + Yoes image
A new parabolic bridge that launches itself across Surf Avenue - connecting the new West 8/Aquarium BMT station to the Aquarium.
What Do You Think?
“What a beautiful design! I hope to see that up someday, I'm sure it would be appreciated by everybody in the community!”

Jarod, flushing

07-24-2007

Family Intake Center
Polshek Partnership Architects image
The design offers DHS the opportunity to enhance its image amongst both the homeless and the public at large by communicating a message of hope.
New Academic Building at the Cooper Union
Morphosis image
Mayne's architectural philosophy integrates tradition and innovation, qualities that characterize Cooper Union's educational philosophy.
What Do You Think?
“I think this building is an amalgamation of metal, glass, and counter-intuitive design. South-facing solar panels facing a enormous hotel that blocks the sun? Hilarious.”

Allan Ho, The Cooper Union, New York, NY

08-16-2007

PlaNYC
Mayor's 2030 Plan
 
Rescue Company 3 Firehouse
Polshek Partnership Architects image
With the vehicles in close proximity to spaces housing supportive functions, the building intentionally resembles a piece of equipment, a kind of “stationary toolbox.”
What Do You Think?
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Cgqrivef, Location

07-22-2008

New Housing New York
Phipps Rose Dattner Grimshaw image
A competition for sustainably designed mixed-income, mixed-use affordable housing, NHNY has the potential to invigorate the local community and the city’s housing providers.
How important do you think LEED certification is to establishing a project's "green" credentials?
“What is most important about LEED, is not what a great method for sustainable architecture evaluation it is. In fact, most of us architects have several doubts on how a point checklist can be able to evaluate architecture. The most relevant aspect of the LEED movement, in my opinion, is that it is the first mainstream recognition for sustainable practices in buildings. What makes LEED certification so important is that it establishes a common ground for everyone, from a teacher to a businessman, to be able to point their fingers to buildings and say- That is a real sustainable building.”

Bárbara, chile

06-14-2007

Reconstruction of Father Duffy Square
William Fellows Architects and Perkins Eastman image
The rebuilding of Father Duffy Square represents a new era in the dramatic transformation of Times Square.
CaVaLa Park
Canal Varick Laight image
This ½ acre park, once a parking lot under NYCDOT and Port Authority jurisdiction, will soon become a green and welcoming gateway to Lower Manhattan.
What Do You Think?
“A new green space in such a densely developed locality is always great for health and social interaction if designed well and the public get to use it properly. The irony of the picture is that the woman laying down on the grass will probably be moved on for doing so or prohibited by fencing around the grass. Even if she was somehow allowed to engage in whatever recreation she is doing, would everyone have this right (e.g homeless, teenagers)? ”

Ian Ralph, Cardiff

01-20-2008

Glen Oaks Library
Branch of the Queens Library image
Glen Oaks Branch Library is designed to replace an existing one story facility with a new 18,000 sf, high performance, LEED certified building.
Timecast
Nobuho Nagasawa image
The shadow of newly-planted native New York trees will be precisely traced at a certain time of the day on the bluestone sidewalk.
What Do You Think?
“Since we tend to notice street trees more when they are not there shading us from baking sun, I applaud the highlighting of the hard working tree. They have a tough life, isolated from one another as they are, and its a beautiful living monument to the life of the tree. ”

Holly, NYC

09-14-2007