Ferry Road House North Haven

Ferry Road House in North Haven

Design: Blaze Makoid Architecture, Architects. The homeowners wanted to see the water as they drove up to the house: a glass cube at the center of the home forms the living room and affords views from the driveway straight through to the bay.

30 Hudson Yards, New York City

30 Hudson Yards

Design: Bill Pedersen – Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF) architects. 90-story, 1,296-ft-tall office tower now 15 floors above street level. The 2.6-m-sqft tower is be the second-tallest office building in New York, taller than the Empire State Building and home to the highest outdoor observation deck in the city.

The Standard, New York Building

The Standard New York hotel

Design: Todd Schliemann of Polshek Partnership Architects: this hotel is located in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District, a vibrant neighborhood just east of the Hudson River and west of Greenwich Village on the City’s western edge. The eighteen-story, concrete and glass structure has 337 rooms.

One57 Tower in New York City

One57 New York City Building

One57 (nicknamed “The Billionaire Building“) is a 75-story skyscraper by Atelier Christian de Portzamparc. One of the penthouses is the first to surpass $100 million, the most expensive apartment ever sold in NYC.

Pier 55 Hudson River Park, New York City

Pier 55 Hudson River Park

Design: Heatherwick Studio, with landscape architect Mathews Nielsen. A New York State appeals court ordered work be halted on elevated park over the Hudson River. The Chelsea riverfront project is being funded by media mogul Barry Diller and fashion designer Diane Von Furstenberg.

41 Cooper Square: New York Building

41 Cooper Square, New York

Design: Morphosis, Architects. New photos added of this dramatic, sustainable academic building. The distinctive building on Third Avenue between East 6th and 7th Streets was New York City’s first LEED certified academic laboratory building.

University Center at The New School, NYC

University Center at The New School

Design: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP, Architects (SOM). Located at the intersection of Fifth Avenue and 14th Street, the 375,000-sqft center 16-story building reflects and reinforces the experimental nature of The New School and creates a dialogue between the campus community, the local neighborhood, and the city.

New Museum of Contemporary Art New York City

New Museum of Contemporary Art

Design: SANAA architects. Founded as the New Museum of Contemporary Art in 1977, is the only museum in New York City exclusively devoted to presenting contemporary art from around the world. It opened its first freestanding, dedicated building at 235 Bowery in 2007.

Louis Vuitton Store New York Fifth Avenue

Louis Vuitton New York

Jun Aoki is a Japanese architect based in Tokyo. Having graduated from Tokyo University he worked at Arata Isozaki & Associates before establishing his own architecture practice in 1991. The architect has designed many Louis Vuitton stores across the world.

9 West 57th Street New York, Solow Building

West 57th Street Building New York entry

Design: Gordon Bunschaft of Skidmore Owings Merrill, Architects. This Manhattan skyscraper is also known as the Solow Building: 49 storeys, 672 ft high. The concave vertical slope was designed to help bring light to the street, rather than using the traditional setbacks.

MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program 2016

MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program 2016

Escobedo Solíz Studio. The architects describe this year’s construction as “neither an object nor a sculpture standing in the courtyard, but a series of simple, powerful actions that generate new and different atmospheres.”

HL23 Project: New York High Line, Neil Denari

HL23 High Line New York building

Residential tower by acclaimed Los Angeles architect Neil Denari: HL23 now stands as a new beacon for the reinvigorated West Chelsea district that has firmly established itself as a major cultural hub.

66 Hudson Boulevard Tower, New York City

Hudson Boulevard tower New York by BIG

Design Architect: BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group. One of the largest remaining development sites in the Hudson Yards rezoning, owned by Tishman Speyer: the building has 65 floors, containing 2.85 million sqft.

200 Amsterdam Avenue New York Tower

200 Amsterdam Avenue New York City Tower

Design: Elkus Manfredi, Architects. The lower blocks of the Upper West Side have given rise to a sprinkling of skyscrapers in recent years. The tower will rise 666 feet to its roof, becoming the tallest building on the Upper West Side.

High Line Park New York Section 2, Manhattan

High Line New York

New photos: Doubling the Length of the Park, New Section Spurs Development, Features New Public Art, Family Activities, and Community Events, and Connects Three Neighborhoods along Manhattan’s West Side.

Seagram Building New York City, Manhattan skyscraper

Seagram Building New York

Design: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Architect; Philip Johnson. Classic International Style design – this building exhibits clean Modernist lines. The Seagram Building faces the podium and tower of Lever House by architects Skidmore Owings & Merrill across Park Avenue.

Grand Central Station New York: Terminal Building

Grand Central New York with Metlife Building

Famous building backdrop from numerous American films, the station is designed in the Beaux-Arts architecture style popular in the early 20th century. An architecture competition took place in 1903 for the new Grand Central Station.