Safe Ground
NYPD releases World Trade Center security measures. One of the most lauded features of Daniel Libeskind’s masterplan for the redevelopment of the World Trade ...
System of a Malfunction
Geoff Manaugh to take the helm at Gizmodo. On July 7, 2004, Geoff Manaugh launched BldgBlog with a quote from science-fiction writer J.G. Ballard. “Highways, ...
Old Walls
Rogers Marvel designs a new home for St. Ann's Warehouse On the Brooklyn waterfront. An unassuming landmark on the edge of Brooklyn Bridge Park is currently ...
Focus on Fabrication> Tietz-Baccon
Meet the makers who are transforming the production of environments and objects. Erik Tietz and Andrew Baccon, founders of the Queens-based fabrication ...
Healthy Street
Stoss Landscape Urbanism lays new streetscape in low-income neighborhood. Five blocks on Syracuse’s Near Westside neighborhood is undergoing a public space ...
Unveiled> Philly’s Commercial Corner
Bohlin Cywinski Jackson uses massing to bring identity to Philadelphia's newest commercial building, 15th and Walnut. The architectural firm behind ...
Hold the MSG
Opposition to Madison Square Gardens Heating Up. Madison Square Garden has been on the move since its inception in 1879 as a 10,000-square-foot boxing, bike ...
Squibb Pedestrian Bridge Bounces Into Brooklyn Bridge Park
HNTB’s Squibb Park Pedestrian Bridge connecting the Brooklyn Heights Promenade with Brooklyn Bridge Park opened to the public last Thursday. The $4.9 million ...
Reading into Reastoration
Selldorf Architects To Restore Grand Reading Room at Brown University. While some of the new architecture at Brown University is distinctly modern, ...
Home Plate
Indianapolis adaptive reuse project converts a ballpark into residences. In Indianapolis, the minor league baseball team known as the Indians hasn’t played at ...
Staying Power
Mathews Nielsen's plan to reshape a Lower Manhattan pedestrian plaza. The unofficial motto of the so-called “tactical urbanism” movement is to use ...
Emerging Voices> Cao | Perrot Studio
Los Angeles- and Paris-based landscape artists craft dreamy scenes steeped in cultural meaning. You may have experienced the landscapes of Andy Cao and Xavier ...
Emerging Voices> DIGSAU
Philadelphia-based generalist practice uses collaboration to find potent ideas and generate form. Philadelphia-based DIGSAU, founded in 2007, has used ...
Urban Studies
William Rawn brings urban life to new residences at Washington University in St. Louis. A new cluster of student apartments at Washington University in St. Louis ...
The Great Blue Way
WXY proposes transformation of Manhattan's East River waterfront. During Hurricane Sandy, floodwaters overwhelmed bulkheads along Manhattan’s East River ...
Ride The Tube
Architect’s Plan Would Add A Bike and Pedestrian Tube to San Diego’s Coronado Bay Bridge. From the top of San Diego’s soaring 200-foot-tall Coronado Bay ...
Branching Out
SCAPE wins competition to daylight an underground river in Lexington, Kentucky. Bourbon enthusiasts are quick to point out that as water naturally filters through ...
Restoration of Thomas Jefferson’s University of Virginia Rotunda Underway
No one really knows what Thomas Jefferson’s Rotunda, modeled after the Pantheon in Rome, representing the enlightened human mind, and standing at the head of the ...