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There are many big-name performers and fast-paced sporting events that take place at Brooklyn's Barclays Center, the multi-purpose arena at the intersection of Flatbush...
Where is the most expensive office rent in the world in 2013? Unexpectedly, Luanda, Angola, due to extreme economic growth and lack of Class A office space to serve...
Carlton Brown is a man of big ideas and grand ideals. Honored last week at the Ratensky Lecture at the Center for Architecture, Brown talked about how his upbringing in...
The Solar Decathlon, an annual design competition sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy, challenges academic institutions to design and build cost-effective,...
“A Tale of Two Futures: The Living Building Challenge” was explored through the Willow School in Bedminster, NJ, designed by Michael Farewell, FAIA, LEED AP,...
On 10.28.13, Michel Angel Baltierra, Assoc. AIA, LEED AP, interviewed Phyllis Lambert, Hon, FAIA, founding director of the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal...
If you are not currently an AIA member there are many great reasons to join, and particularly to be part of the AIA New York Chapter. With a growing number of programs...
Discussing competitions and new models for disseminating architectural ideas, the “(P) RE:Think | Competitive Ideas” panel discerned little about the future. When...
Roughly a year after New York endured Superstorm Sandy, with current headlines showing the devastation caused by a massive typhoon that wracked the Philippines, the...
On 11.13.13, the Center for Architecture’s Tafel Hall was packed with notebook-wielding architects and architecture-appreciating professionals. The word...
“Then I started thinking, I’m taking down what some poor guy broke his back 50 years ago to put up. Going home to his kids at night telling them their daddy was...
On 09.09.13, Michel Angel Baltierra, Assoc. AIA, LEED AP, interviewed David Halle and Andrew Beveridge, co-editors of New York and Los Angeles: The Uncertain Future,...
We spent the entire month of Archtober celebrating architecture and design, but there is one special night of the year when architecture truly takes center stage:...
“An elegant building, an elegant book, an elegant writer,” is really all anyone needs to say about the newly published Building Seagram by Phyllis Lambert, Hon....
There were essentially two threads UNStudio Principal Ben van Berkel weaved through his presentation for the Arthur M. Rosenblatt Memorial Lecture. The first was a...
Deborah Berke, FAIA, is a preeminent member of the architecture industry as well as an extraordinary academic. On 11.01.13, Berke joined the AIANY Women in Architecture...
Queuing up at Pershing Square amidst the swarm of neon-clad NY Road Runners Dash to the Finish Line runners, a conspicuously darkly-attired group waited in the crisp...
Nearing the first anniversary of Superstorm Sandy, the AIA New York Chapter, Architecture for Humanity, and Cooper Union organized a symposium to report on and measure...
The audience was young and old, but all interested in the myriad of ways that we can improve the ability of seniors living in NYC to age in-place. “Age-Friendly...
No one attending the United Nations conference for World Habitat Day needed convincing about certain key principles: that climate change and extreme weather events are...
