Daniel Libeskind’s World Trade Center Change of Heart
In two weeks, we will commemorate another anniversary—the twelfth—of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center. This particular anniversary is notable because a new building now stands on that...
View ArticleMayor Bloomberg’s Legacy
Last Thursday, two days after voters tapped Bill de Blasio as the presumptive Democratic nominee for mayor and one day after the twelfth anniversary of 9/11, Mayor Michael Bloomberg delivered a speech...
View ArticleHow to Manhattanize a City
In the past, a city was said to have “Manhattanized” when it bulldozed old storefronts to make room for dense clusters of commercial skyscrapers: think San Francisco in the nineteen-sixties or Miami in...
View ArticleA Whole Foods Grows in Brooklyn
On Tuesday in Gowanus, an industrial neighborhood that is still somewhat affordable to artists and middle-class workers, Whole Foods Market opened its first store in Brooklyn. A rooftop greenhouse...
View ArticleThe New Must-Have for Luxury Buildings: Graffiti
In 2012, when Toll Brothers, a suburban developer branching out into urban markets, completed a condominium building in the DUMBO neighborhood of Brooklyn, with units that would be priced at between...
View ArticleWhen Street Art Meets High Finance
In 2012, the European Central Bank gave a local arts group permission to paint a fence surrounding the construction site for its new headquarters, in Frankfurt, and provided ten thousand euros for...
View ArticleIt’s a New Day in the Gayborhood
After Nate Silver, the founder of the statistics blog FiveThirtyEight, correctly predicted the outcome of the 2012 Presidential election, Out magazine named him its Person of the Year. In an interview...
View ArticleAre Micro-Apartments a Good Solution to the Affordable-Housing Crisis?
During a recent tour of Carmel Place, New York City’s new micro-apartment complex, Ammr Vandal, project manager for nArchitects, explained how design can generate a sense of roominess in even the...
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