This issue of the architecture magazine a+u looks at how, even in a city such as New York, where projects are executed on a grand scale, designing spaces to walk, rest, work, and play centers the human experience.
The selected projects from Midtown and Lower Manhattan provide but a small cross section of the varying typologies of differing scales currently enhancing the architecture of New York City. Projects such as the Moynihan Train Hall by Skidmore Owings & Merrill (SOM) endeavor to preserve the fabric of the city while addressing the increased need for transportation hubs by the expansion of Pennsylvania station to the adjacent historic James A. Farley Building, while adaptive reuse projects such as Gansevoort Peninsula Park by nArchitects are part of a decadeslong effort to transform the industrial waterfront into much needed green spaces and sports facilities. Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF) addresses the shortage of residential space with projects that integrate the materiality of the building to its context and incorporate the human scale with the urban one. Amid the massive developments taking place, smaller practices such as Worrell Yeung and WORKac seek to preserve urban character, through surgical intervention in their renovation projects.
Essay: Beyond Buildings: Four Decades of City-Making on Manhattan’s West Side, Keith P. O’Connor
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM)
East End Gateway and Long Island Rail Road Concourse Renovation
Moynihan Train Hall
Manhattan West
High Line – Moynihan Connector
Research: Office-to-Residential Conversion Study: 1633 Broadway, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM)
Heatherwick Studio, Vessel, Little Island
nARCHITECTS, Gansevoort Peninsula Park
Snøhetta, 550 Madison Avenue Garden
Essay: The Legend of Avant-Garde Architecture and the Rise of the Market-Fundamentalist City, Stephen Zacks
Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Spur – High Line, Columbia Business School
Worrell Yeung, Canal Projects Renovation
Essay: Revitalizing Midtown East, Andrew Cleary
Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF), One Vanderbilt, 55 Hudson Yards
Essay: Craft, Context, Performance: Defining a Contemporary American Vernacular, James von Klemperer
Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF), 64 University Place
WORKac, Stealth Building
Gensler, Pearl House
This issue of the architecture magazine a+u looks at how, even in a city such as New York, where projects are executed on a grand scale, designing spaces to walk, rest, work, and play centers the human experience.
The selected projects from Midtown and Lower Manhattan provide but a small cross section of the varying typologies of differing scales currently enhancing the architecture of New York City. Projects such as the Moynihan Train Hall by Skidmore Owings & Merrill (SOM) endeavor to preserve the fabric of the city while addressing the increased need for transportation hubs by the expansion of Pennsylvania station to the adjacent historic James A. Farley Building, while adaptive reuse projects such as Gansevoort Peninsula Park by nArchitects are part of a decadeslong effort to transform the industrial waterfront into much needed green spaces and sports facilities. Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF) addresses the shortage of residential space with projects that integrate the materiality of the building to its context and incorporate the human scale with the urban one. Amid the massive developments taking place, smaller practices such as Worrell Yeung and WORKac seek to preserve urban character, through surgical intervention in their renovation projects.
Essay: Beyond Buildings: Four Decades of City-Making on Manhattan’s West Side, Keith P. O’Connor
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM)
East End Gateway and Long Island Rail Road Concourse Renovation
Moynihan Train Hall
Manhattan West
High Line – Moynihan Connector
Research: Office-to-Residential Conversion Study: 1633 Broadway, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM)
Heatherwick Studio, Vessel, Little Island
nARCHITECTS, Gansevoort Peninsula Park
Snøhetta, 550 Madison Avenue Garden
Essay: The Legend of Avant-Garde Architecture and the Rise of the Market-Fundamentalist City, Stephen Zacks
Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Spur – High Line, Columbia Business School
Worrell Yeung, Canal Projects Renovation
Essay: Revitalizing Midtown East, Andrew Cleary
Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF), One Vanderbilt, 55 Hudson Yards
Essay: Craft, Context, Performance: Defining a Contemporary American Vernacular, James von Klemperer
Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF), 64 University Place
WORKac, Stealth Building
Gensler, Pearl House
