Buildings, clockwise from upper left corner: Prada Store Soho, American Museum of Natural History's Rose Center, Hearst Building, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Morgan Library expansion, Apple Store Soho, Conde Nast Building, and Seagram Building; in the center, Grand Central Terminal interior and the Chrysler Building The Chrysler Building. The Seagram Building. The Apple Store Soho? The Center for Architecture's executive director Rick Bell made a list of 10 great buildings to see in New......

Tomorrow afternoon at 2 p.m., the Municipal Arts Society is holding a meeting at Hunter College to present a brainstormed plan for making the East River waterfront in Manhattan's midtown an accessible public waterfront. The idea is that if the rebuilding of the FDR Drive, the decommissioning of the Con Ed power plant, and the expansion of the U.N. are coordinated, there is the opportunity for a waterfront park to be built, and completing the......

The NY Times has a nice profile of Amanda Burden, the influential Department of City Planning commissioner whose policies will shape the city for years to come. Burden boasts a quiet, behind-the-scenes role in development across the five boroughs, including large-scale projects like Ground Zero, the Atlantic Yards (she supported downsizing it) and the High Line. She’s also overseeing the largest planning push since 1961 - so far, City Planning has rezoned approximately 4,500 blocks,......

The Whitney's third expansion plan in 20 years may be abandoned if it moves its addition to a site at the southern tip of the High Line. The space opened up after the Dia Art Foundation announced last week that it was not building a museum there. The interesting backstory is the Renzo Piano-designed Madison Ave. addition, a nine-story tower that would have connected to the original 1966 Marcel Breuer building through glass bridges. Located......

In what seems like a familiar refrain, neighbors of the Whitney Museum are upset over its 18-floor addition. And now, a residents and the Carlyle Hotel have filed a lawsuit agains the city claiming, as the NY Sun puts it, that "the Board of Standards and Appeals erred in granting the museum variances to zoning regulations, in order to allow the Whitney to go forward with its expansion." The group is still upset over the......

It'll be an alley of cray architectural all-stars downtown! After turning over Freedom Tower reins to the Port Authority and getting a pretty sweet deal, given everything, developer Larry Silverstein has annointed British architect (and Sir) Richard Rogers to design Tower 3 and Japanese Pritzker-winner Fumihiko Maki to design Tower 4 at the World Trade Center. Rogers is making a splash in New York lately - he'll be designing the Javits Center expansion, the......

The Fire Department is still investigating the cause of Saturday night's fire at 575 Broadway, better known as the building that housed the Prada and American Eagle stores on the northwest corner of Prince. Also in the building: Interview magazine, Bobbi Brown cosmetics, the Lure Fishbar, plus Antiques and Art in America magazines. The fire started on a low floor, then spread through air ducts to the other floors. According to amNew York, officials......

A five-alarm blaze hit a historic building in SoHo last night that injured six firefighters and one civilian. The fire was brought under control this morning by 198 firefighters and 44 units. 1010 WINS is reporting that the fire is being called "suspicious" as it started in a utility room and spread through the building's ventilation system. The historic 575 Broadway, estimated to be worth $15 million, is home to the flagship $40 million......

Opening today at MoMA QNS: Tall Buildings, a showcase of 25 high-rise buildings designed in the last 10 years. The exhibit takes a look at the evolution of the architectural genre for the 21st century, exploring innovations in structure and program as well as social and urban implications. Santiago Calatrava, Norman Foster, Steven Holl, Rem Koolhaas, Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers are some of the architects represented in this exhibit. Many of the buildings featured......

With the announcement that New York is still in the running to host the 2012 Olympics, more details about the proposed Jets Stadium on the West Side were revealed. The new stadium will "feature wind turbines and solar collector tubes to generate much of its own electricity and hot water," situated between 11th and 12th Avenues, between 30th and 33rd Streets. Architect William Pedersen, of Kohn Pedersen Fox, said of the stadium's grid design, which......

Nothing says Tuesday night like the launch party for a book with a cover of Kim Jon Il as Terminator, George Bush wearing a freedom-fries hat, and Saddam Hussein as Rambo. Architect Rem Koolhaas's new book, Content, is a follow-up of sorts to the wonderful S, M, L, XL , covering architecture, politics, the economy, and technology, and pubisher Taschen and artist Jeff Koons threw Koolhaas a party at the Women's National Republican Club......

Looks like architect Rem Koolhaas wants to mix things up with his new book, Content. The book, which comes out this spring, in connection with a show at the Kunsthal in Rotterdam. The show, and we assume, book, will focus on recent works from Koolhaas's firm, OMA. But the posters for the book have provocative images of Palestine and skyscrapers being knifed while the book's cover shows the beauty of Photoshop and some pictures of......

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The "dream teams" of noted architects working together for prestigious projects is the subject of a Times architecture article. Though Daniel Libeskind, dream team of one, won the World Trade Center competition, apparently teamwork is the new black of the architecture world, as evinced by all the other teams who entered. The Times brings up a 2001 quote from design world "star," Rem Koolhaas: "If I pride myself on one thing, it is a talent......