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Project: Omonia Bakery
Architect: bluarch
Antonio Di Oronzo
Location: Queens, New York, USA

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The New Amsterdam Plein & Pavilion at Peter Minuit Plaza has now officially opened to the public in New York City’s Battery Park. The pavilion was designed by Amsterdam-based Ben Van Berkel/UNStudio in collaboration with Handel Architects LLP, New York serving as associate architect. The project’s landscape was conceived by Parks Dept. Landscape Designer Gail Wittwer-Laird. [more images and project description after the break]
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© Paul Rivera

Project: Experimental Media & Performing Arts Center / EMPAC
Architects: Grimshaw Architects
Location: Troy, New York, USA
Principals: Vincent Chang, Sir Nicholas Grimshaw, Mark Husser, Andrew Whalley
Project Team: Simon Beames, Shane Burger, David Burke, Demetrios Comodromos, Chris Crombie, Chris Duisberg, Matt Eastwood, Paulo Faria, Nikolas Dando-Haenisch, William Horgan, Barbara Kurdiovsky, Kirsten Lees, Melissa Lim, Theo Lorenz, Mariam Mojdehi, Junko Nakagawa, Michael Pawlyn, Juan Porral
Project area: 221,200 sqf
Project year: 2008
Photographs: Paul Rivera, Peter Aaron

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Project: West 57
Architect: BIG Bjarke Ingels Group
Partner in Charge: Bjarke Ingels
Location: Manhattan, New York, USA
Project Leader: Beat Schenk
Project Architect: Sören Grünert
Project Team: Thomas Christoffersen, Celine Jeanne, Daniel Sundlin, Alessandro Ronfini, Aleksander Tokarz, Alessio Valmori, Alvaro Garcia Mendive, Felicia Guldberg, Gabrielle Nadeau, Ho Kyung Lee, Julian Liang, Julianne Gola, Lucian Racovitan, Marcela Martinez, Maria Nikolova, Minjae Kim, Mitesh Dixit, Nicklas Rasch, Riccardo Mariano, Stanley Lung, Steffan Heath, Thilani Rajarathna, Xu Li
Collaborators:
Architect of Record: SLCE Architects
Landscape Architects: Starr Whitehouse
Structural: Thornton Tomasetti
MEP: Dagher Engineering
Civil: Langan Engineering
Construction Manager: Hunter Roberts
Transportation: Philip Habib & Assoc.
Building Envelope: Israel Berger & Assoc.
Marketing: Nancy Packes
Vertical Transportation: Van Deusen & Assoc.
Acoustical: Cerami & Assoc.
Wind: CPP
Environmental: AKRF
Client: Durst Fetner Residential
Size: 80.000 m2
Status: Ongoing
Renders: German Glessner

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New York firm Diller Scofidio + Renfro have unveiled their design for a new Los Angeles museum for The Broad Art Foundation. Rem Koolhaas, Herzog & de Meuron, Christian de Portzamparc, Ryue Nishizawa and Kazuyo Sejima, Diller Scofidio + Renfro and Foreign Office Architects competed last year for a 120,000 sq ft and $130 million dollars project for a new museum and in August Diller Scofidio + Renfro won the competition. [More info and images after the break]

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Iwan Baan

Project: Hypar Pavilion
Architects: Diller Scofidio + Renfro with FXFOWLE
Location: New York City, New York, USA
Design Team Principals: Elizabeth Diller, Ricardo Scofidio and Charles Renfro
Design Senior Associate: Kevin Rice
Architecture Team: Zoe Small, Haruka Saito, Ann-Rachel Schiffman, Stefan Roeschert, Michael Hundsnurcher, Roman Loretan, Dan Sakai, Chris Andreacola, Anthony Saby, Mateo Antonio de Cardenas, Toshikatsu Kiuchi, Felipe Ferrer, Hallie Terzopolos
Core and Shell Design: Diller Scofidio + Renfro with FXFOWLE
Kitchen Design: Yui Design
Lighting: Tillotson Design Associates
SMEP: Ove Arup & Partners
Acoustical: Jaffe Holden
Telephone and Data Consulting: Shen Milsom & Wilke
Construction: Turner Construction
Project Year: 2010
Photographs: Iwan Baan

           
Iwan Baan

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Sucker Punch and the Museum of Comic and Cartoon are organizing an open international ideas competition for a new home for the Museum of Cartoon and Comic Art, MoCCA. The MoCCA was established in 2001 and is based in the soho area of manhattan in New York City. [More info after the break.]

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MCSimon Via Flickr

Norwegian architects Snøhetta has won the Times Square Reconstruction Project to create a series of pedestrian plazas along Broadway, including Times Square. The winning team led by Snøhetta also comprises WXY Architecture and Design, Weidlinger Associates (engineers), Matthew Nielsen (landscape), Billings Jackson Design (industrial) and Bexel (audio-visual).

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The Guggenheim is celebrating its 50th Anniversary and they have done so many things to celebrate, back in April we wrote abouth the competition “RE: Contemplating the Void: Intervention in the Guggenheim” where the museum invited participants to reimagine the museum´s iconic rotunda and submit their ideas via Flickr. At midnight on May 14, 2010 the competition was closed and the museum recived over 200 submissions. After careful review, Contemplating the Void curators Nancy Spector, Deputy Director and Chief Curator, and David Van Der Leer, Assistant Curator for Architecture and Design, have selected five winning submissions which are shown after the break. All submissions are available in the flickr pool.

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To celebrate the close of the Guggenheim’s 50th Anniversary year, the Guggenheim Museum invites you to create your own dream intervention of the Guggenheim Museum. Now you can take on the same challenge that 200 artists, designers, and architects took on for the exhibition Contemplating the Void: Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum. More info after the break.

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The Associated Press reported that Jean Nouvel’s proposed 82-story tower next to the Museum of Modern Art has cleared its final hurdle. The New York City Council voted Wednesday to approve the plan for a 1000-foot mixed-use tower on West 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth avenues. The museum called the approval “a major milestone” for its plans to add over 40,000 square feet of new gallery space — a 30 percent increase.

Nouvel’s design maximizes the site while considering the city’s zoning envelope. The proposed building’s unique silhouette tapers as it rises to a distinctive spire. Its steel and glass façade reveals the diagrid structural design. Gerald D. Hines, chairman of Hines, commented, “Nouvel’s exciting concept has the potential to become an international architectural design icon.” The Hines firm has collaborated with Nouvel on both 40 Mercer in New York’s SoHo neighborhood and on the C1 Tower currently under development in Paris.

After ten years of advocacy, planning, and construction, the High Line opened its first section, last Tuesday June 9. Section 1 of the High Line (from Gansevoort Street to 20th Street) offers visitors the chance to preview the park, which is still under construction.

The High Line is located on Manhattan’s West Side. It runs from Gansevoort Street in the Meatpacking District to 34th Street, between 10th & 11th Avenues. Section 1 of the High Line, which opened to the public on June 9, runs from Gansevoort Street to 20th Street. 

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Located West of Midtown Manhattan, the Clinton Park Mixed use development consist of 900,000 sf of apartment and retail program, occupying nearly a full city block along 11th Avenue. The Ground floor will provide a 50,000 auto showroom fronting the Avenue with additional 180,000 SF of belos ground service area for the dealership. Additional programs will include a 30,000 sf horse stable and 10,000 sf neighborhood market. Apartment lobbies will be accessed along both side streets.

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