Manhattan’s First Passive House
Baxt Ingui Architects, P.C. designed this house, which is exciting in many ways. It is Manhattan’s first Certified Passive House, Certified LEED for Home Platinum and it is in a NYC Landmark district.
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Baxt Ingui Architects, P.C. designed this house, which is exciting in many ways. It is Manhattan’s first Certified Passive House, Certified LEED for Home Platinum and it is in a NYC Landmark district.
Designed by L/AND/A the Switchback House is a new prototype for contemporary urban living that inverts and opens up the traditional row house by replacing a stacked stair with a switchback stair and inserting a dramatic skyline atop the new vertical stair volume.
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To take advantage of ocean views this “upside down” house was designed by Berg Design, with open plan living areas, master bedroom suit and expansive exterior decks on the second floor.
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Within an old car garage with 20 foot high ceilings Berg Design designed geodesic dome shell structures in the middle of the space. A flexible retail area and a bar space was required to work with 30 patrons up to 150.
Futuristic Manhattan waterfront building design by Humphreys & Partners Architects – sustainable modular building with micro units, co-working spaces, activity and wellness centers, plus a range of innovative elements from artificial intelligence to drones, home automation and autonomous vehicles.
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New York City’s sea level is due to rise 50 to 75 inches by 2100: most buildings cannot accommodate such changes. The design for Pier 40, a dilapidated 15-acre structure in the Hudson River, by DFA uses exposed lattice framing around a cluster of cylinderical towers, with honeycomb soffits at ground level.
Designed by Valerie Schweitzer Architects Bubble Shade are clear-stained aluminum pods with wide openings and oculi at their roofs provide a sequence of refuges for a park, urban plaza or backyard. They are modules that may increase in number depending on the size of the site and the need for shade.
The makeover by BKSK Architects of the landmarked Tammany Hall at 44 Union Square East forms new / revitalized office and retail spaces. The key architectural feature is the new glazed glass dome floating over the top floor.
Construction of The Eleventh, designed by Danish architects BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group, has started. The two High Line towers of 25 & 34 floors are located between 17th & 18th Streets and Tenth & Eleventh Avenues, and joined by glass skybridges.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo pushes for large-scale renovation of Manhattan’s Pennsylvania Station. The first phase of his $1.6 billion plan to revamp the “overcrowded, decrepit and claustrophobic” building into a more spacious and high-tech transit hub is designed by Skidmore Owings & Merrill (SOM).
Lightstone collaborates with world renowned architect Sir David Adjaye on his first condominium Tower in New York City. 130 William features 244 residences and rises 66 stories to make a bold addition to the iconic Manhattan skyline
The U.N. is building a new tower to house its operations across the street from the under-renovation U.N. Secretariat, the only Corb building in New York. Architects are Fumihiko Maki with local partner FXFowle. The UN Tower architecture competition was only open to Pritzker Prize-winning architects.
Topping off for new $70 m free-standing 20,000-sqft museum building. It is due to accommodate far more people than the current exhibition space. It will be constructed of glass, granite, and concrete–materials inspired by the waterfront.
Former AT&T Building is being considered for landmark designation. This famous Postmodern building with its so-called ‘Chippendale Chair’ top is a 647 feet tall, 37-story skyscraper at 560 Madison Avenue (at 56th Street), designed by US architect Philip Johnson with John Burgee.