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......

Some folks were mighty disappointed when a Daisy May's BBQ cart on Park Avenue and 52nd Street turned out to be a tease. According to Midtown Lunch, the cart was set up outside the Seagram Building for the filming of the next Adam Sandler movie, You Don't Mess With Zohan. The Hollywood Reporter says You Don't Mess With Zohan was written by Sandler, Judd Apatow, and Robert Smigel and it "follows the exploits of......

Jean Nouvel mania reaches a fevered pitch with today’s glowing NY Times review of the French architect’s rising Soho and Chelsea buildings. Nicolai Ouroussoff references Hitchcock and Uma as he concludes that sleek and stupendous living may not be so bad after all. Calling the Soho building (windows pictured, left) on Grand between Broadway and Mercer “more restrained,” the NY Times architecture critic admires Nouvel’s embrace of the cast iron-frame buildings of Soho’s manufacturing......

Yesterday, there was a sprawling editorial (literally sprawling too - it covered two pages) in the NY Times Week in Review by Tom Wolfe. And in it, he ripped the Landmarks Preservation Commission, most of its commissioners, and Mayors Koch, Giuliani and Bloomberg a couple new ones. The essay, The (Naked) City and the Undead, begins with the debate over 980 Madison Avenue and developer Aby Rosen's proposed Norman Foster addition to it. (Which......

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The Skyscraper Museum asked one hundred architects, brokers, builders, critics, developers, engineers, historians, lawyers, officials, owners, planners and scholars what their ten favorite NYC skyscrapers were from a list of buildings (which did not include the World Trade Center). The NY Times looks at the results, which are a great shorthand of the must-sees in the city. The top ten are Chrysler Building (with the most votes), Seagram, Flatiron, Woolworth, Empire State, Lever House, RCA,......

Iconic American architect Philip Johnson has died at 98. Many of Johnson's bulidings are familiar sights to New Yorkers, including the AT&T-now-Sony building at 550 Madison Avenue (known as the Chippendale building), the State Theater at Lincoln Center, and the sculpture garden at the Museum of Modern Art, and he worked with Mies van der Rohe on the Seagram Building. Other famous designs include the Glass House in Connecticut and the Garden Grove Church in......

cityrag has pictures of NASCAR's "Victory Lap" in New York, proving that there are NASCAR fans in a blue city. And with news last May that NASCAR was looking to create a roadway in the five boroughs, the presence of logo-emblazoned cars might be less surprising to our eyes. It looks this crowd is outside the Seagram Building on Park Avenue; Gothamist hopes that some Nascar dads were rubbing shoulders with the lunch crowd......