The Concrete Crystal That Keeps Lower Manhattan Moving
New York’s Spring Street Salt Shed turns a 5,000-ton winter reserve into a striking piece of civic infrastructure on the Hudson River waterfront.
Jared Ebersole
The Concrete Arch That Paved Manhattan
At Asphalt Green on the Upper East Side, a 1944 municipal asphalt plant shows how a practical freight problem produced one of New York’s most distinctive industrial landmarks.
Zaha Hadid’s Last New York Statement Rises Beside the High Line
At 520 West 28th Street, a hand-finished steel facade turns the High Line’s industrial vocabulary into a flowing residential landmark.
The Last Fire Watchtower in New York City
The cast-iron tower above Marcus Garvey Park once turned smoke sightings into coded bell alarms. It survived obsolescence, decay, and dismantling.
How The Standard Learned to Step Over the High Line
The Standard, High Line turns an awkward Manhattan constraint into its defining feature, carrying an 18-story glass hotel across a historic railway on monumental concrete supports.
How The Smile Bends Sunlight Into an East Harlem Street
The Smile at 158 East 126th Street turns a bowed facade into better daylight, wider views, and one of East Harlem's most recognizable silhouettes.
Why the Whitney Museum Has Two Faces
Renzo Piano’s downtown Whitney looks less like a pristine art temple than a piece of waterfront machinery. Its asymmetry answers the competing demands of galleries, city streets, the High Line, and the Hudson River.
The Spiral Turns a Manhattan Skyscraper Into a 1,000-Foot Garden
At the northern end of the High Line, BIG’s supertall office tower wraps every floor in a shifting ribbon of terraces designed for life in the wind.
How an Art Deco Landmark Reshaped 222 LES
A failed air-rights deal and a protected 1931 building forced a Lower East Side development to trade twin towers for a sharper dialogue between old brick and dark glass.
How 8 Spruce Street Made a Skyscraper Ripple
After Frank Gehry’s vast Atlantic Yards plan was abandoned, another Bruce Ratner project gave the architect a very different New York challenge: turning the rigid skin of a residential tower into something that appears to move.
Why a Rainstorm Can Make the Hudson Risky for Swimmers
New York’s combined sewers explain why Hudson River water quality can deteriorate after rain. A filtered pool on the East River offers one possible route back into the water, but its pilot remains unfinished.
Hudson Landing Would Build 1,127 Homes Above Manhattan’s Coal-Tar Legacy
A parking lot opposite the Intrepid Museum could become a two-tower housing complex. First, its buried history as part of a manufactured-gas plant must be addressed.