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02.28.13: A reception was held to honor new members of the College of Fellows within the AIA New York Chapter, including: Israel Berger, FAIA; Heidi L. Blau; FAIA;...
The Oculus 2013 Editorial Calendar has been set. If you are an architect by training, or see yourself as an astute observer of New York’s architectural and planning...
With a nod to the late Mayor Ed Koch's reality-checking tagline, on 02.13.13 the AIANY Design for Risk and Reconstruction Committee (DfRR) assembled local and national...
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Borough President Marty “Fuggedaboutit” Markowitz were both born on Valentine’s Day. But there seemed to be no particular love lost...
As an author, critic, and curator, London-based Lucy Bullivant, Hon. FRIBA, makes no small plans. So it was no surprise when she told the audience at the Center for...
Popular culture has grown increasingly more defined by names with celebrity status and punctuated in the media and the arts by gratuitous repetition. There is, however,...
(Slideshow Above) In this issue: - Rethinking the East River Blueway, Post-Sandy - High Line's Proposed New Neighbor Acts Neighborly – 510 West 22nd Street - Back...
The 2013 Jury of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects elevated 122 AIA members to its prestigious College of Fellows, including thirteen AIANY members: Israel...
The Oculus 2013 Editorial Calendar has been set. If you are an architect by training, or see yourself as an astute observer of New York’s architectural and planning...
02.11.13: The February Oculus Book Talk was dedicated to the Grand Central Terminal Centennial, with a gathering of the four authors of three new tomes on this...
As architects confront the new economic, environmental, and political realities of the 21st century, the essential practice of building design is called into question....
The contribution of school facilities to the quality of education is difficult to determine, not only because so many other variables affect a school's performance...
Gisue and Mojgan Hariri have collaborated for nearly all of their lives. Born in Iran, the two sisters officially founded their architectural practice, Hariri &...
David Baker enjoys rising to the challenge of revitalizing tough and gritty neighborhoods in decline. Many of his projects seize upon the potential in such situations,...
On 01.14.13, Miguel Angel Baltierra, Assoc. AIA, LEED AP, interviewed Robert Geddes, FAIA, the longtime Princeton professor and author of FIT: An Architect's Manifesto,...
Danforth W. Toan, FAIA, recently died at the age of 94. He was an architect and founding partner of Warner Burns Toan & Lunde Architects & Planners in New York,...
(Slideshow Above) In this issue: - King of Kings County Opens in 2014 – Loew’s Kings Theatre - Manhattan’s First New Synagogue in 50 Years Opens – Lincoln...
Contract magazine announced the winners of the 34th Annual Interiors Awards, including the Grand Hyatt New York by Bentel & Bentel Architects/Planners (Hotel);...
The Oculus 2013 Editorial Calendar has been set. If you are an architect by training, or see yourself as an astute observer of New York’s architectural and planning...
As the second program in this year’s 2013 presidential theme “Global City/Global Practice,” this discussion at the Center for Architecture focused its attention on...