Architecture

SMASH IT

Catch a train to see squash

'Philip Glass: Music with Friends'

Freedom Tower Officially New York's Tallest Building. America: F**k Yeah!

Nearly 11 years after terrorists took down the World Trade Center towers, the structures' replacement is now the tallest building in New York City.As of 2:09 p.m., the Freedom Tower became the tallest building in the Big Apple -- and the third tallest building in the world.Two constructions workers ... More >>

WEST IS BEST

Run through 'Little Bohemia'

How Much Does Your Building Weigh, Mr. Foster?

Dubai's New Year's Celebrations Were More Restrained than New York's

Dubai rang in the new year last night by shooting flames out of the Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building. If you ever wondered what a half-mile-tall sparkler looks like, watch the above video.

Obama Celebrates Pagan Unholy Day

Barack and Michelle Obama spent part of their Saturday night handing out candy to trick-or-treaters on the northern portico of the White House. President Obama doesn't appear to be overwhelmingly in the Halloween spirit, but we're pretty sure he's wearing a studio-quality Green Lantern costume unde ... More >>

Happy Birthday, Empire State Building

​Dear Empire State Building, Happy 80th! Wow, that's old. You were born (completed, really, is the word) on May 1st, 1931, during the Great Depression. Standing 1,454' 8 9/166" tall, you were the tallest building in the world for forty years! A masterpiece of Art Deco design (although -- let ... More >>

New World's Tallest Building Will Be Very Tall

via Gulf News​Saudi Arabia will soon be home to a mile-high building, dubbed "The Kingdom Tower." Gulf News reports that it will be erected (you can say that about a building in Saudi Arabia, right?) in the Obhur Gulf, just outside of the port city Jeddah. Kingdom Holding Company is funding th ... More >>

BLACK HOLE SUN

The city unlike you’ve seen it before

NYU Won't Build "Fourth" I.M. Pei Tower After All

​NYU-hating village preservationists will probably be celebrating today. The real-estate-hungry university has announced it will withdraw its application to build a planned 400-foot-tall tower in the Silver Towers complex at Bleecker and West Houston streets that was planned to include a dorm ... More >>

KNOCK OUT

Amateur boxing in Chinatown

Breath Made Visible, Portrait of a Dancer as an Ageless Fount

Yomo Toro & Roswell Rudd

Duncan Campbell and the Bruce High Quality Foundation Take A Bumpy Ride to Utopia

Post-post-punk art crews buckle up for disenchantment

My Architect

L'Inhumaine

The Adventures of Prince Achmed

L’Inhumaine

Visual Acoustics Explores Flat Beauty of Julius Sulman's SoCal

Jane Scheckter

Clip Job: Mailer Tangles with Architecture Egghead

Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesApril 16, 1964, Vol. IX, No. 26Is Architecture Totalitarian?Is contemporary architecture totalitarian? The eminently professional Architectural Forum in its April issue spread out before the readers the bitter words of an outsider. A Yale pro bla ... More >>

'Warm Up Presents Jonah Sharp, Move D & Dan Bell'

BUILT TO LAST

Artist Daniel Arsham takes his cutting-edge work downtown

Ground Zero Plans Get Smaller, Sadder

Last week Bloomberg demanded a sitdown with the World Trade Center developer Larry Silverstein and Governors Paterson and Corzine to see about speeding up this Ground Zero rebuilding thing. It now appears that the Port Authority has its own plan to speed things up by cutting one of the five towers ... More >>

OTAKU ATTACK

Japan Society takes you to Tokyo

For Those Who Miss Buildings with Gaping Holes

Libeskind's original Freedom Tower design The pretentious maestro of building design, Daniel Libeskind, is back to torment us with an appalling new idea, Bloomberg reports - buildings with holes, to take advantage of our nostalgia for 9/11, one supposes. Libeskind, if you'll recall, was the guy ... More >>

UNCANNY CREATIVITY

Nonperishables like you've never seen them before

Empire State Goes Back to the 1930s; Us, Too

SWEET SHOT

Lia Halloran shreds the streets of L.A. for her art

Atlantic Yards Showdown Over the Slowdown

Councilman Goes to Bat For 'Gotham City'

Modern Brooklyn

A formalist occasion at DUMBO's Smack Mellon

The Tower of Positive Thinking

Architects color the skyscraper green

Asphalt Jungle

25 acres with over 2,500 sculptures made from discarded bits and pieces

Full Frontal: Will P.S. 64 Lose Its Face?

Undulating Facades

Landmarks panel gives green light to wavy glass tower in the Village. But try fixing up your Village townhouse.

Morning Report 11/15/05
Confining Their Remarks

1959

1963

Not a Home

Compressed into life's corridor and making everything work

In Les Freres Corbusier's New Musical, Robert Moses Takes On Old Combatants

Art

Art

Poor Memorial

Insult to injury: Looking at the real problem behind the pseudo-solutions at ground zero

Design for Living

From Philly to Dhaka, a son's pilgrimage sheds light on a visionary architect's personality

Manhattan Project

Rebuilding Effort Could Secure City's Future as Bourgeois Playground

The Bilbao Effect

Marquee Architects Draw Mixed Reviews on Campus

School of Paris

Twenty-five Reasons To Develop an Edifice Complex