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SOM’s New Terra-Cotta-Clad Headquarters for Disney Adds a Touch of Magic to Manhattan
On a full-block site, a rarity in high-density Manhattan, an enormous new corporate headquarters has risen. For its bulk, it is almost obsessively unshowy, though its oversize windows, framed in rounded extrusions of iridescent terra-cotta, reward notice along the street. Identified only as 7 Hudson Square, the 19-story Robert A. Iger Building gathers the disparate New York production and corporate operations of The Walt Disney Company into a single hub.
ZGF Architects' Geo-Exchange System for Princeton Leads an Underground Revolution
Princeton University’s Myslik Field looks like many soccer stadiums, but beneath its manicured turf lie dozens of bore holes filled by plastic tubes that harvest the consistent temperature of the earth (around 56 degrees Fahrenheit) to heat and cool dozens of buildings on the sprawling campus.
Seattle Aquarium's Ocean Pavilion by LMN Helps Revitalize an Urban Waterfront
At the northern end of a 1.5-mile park nearing completion—a transformation of Seattle’s downtown waterfront—a rounded structure clad in Alaskan yellow cedar has risen. Urbanistically, it is a hinge that gracefully shifts the park’s flat shoreline promenade to the Overlook Walk, a series of planted staircases and pedestrian ramps that ascend a 110-foot-high bluff to draw the park up to the city’s famous Pike Place Market.
Safdie Architects Returns to Singapore to Expand a Hotel Brand's Portfolio
Diagrammatically, Singapore’s eight-story Edition Hotel wraps a courtyard with its 204 rooms, sharing a through-block site with a 28-story, 154-unit apartment tower. In the hands of Safdie Architects, the development becomes considerably more bravura. It is as if a 60-foot-wide slot were cut to divide the apartment tower vertically in half and the slice then hinged downward to form a 290-foot-long bridge that rests on the roof of the hotel, extending over the sidewalks at each end.
The Gowanus Canal: Booming Test Bed for Climate-Change Adaptation — AIA New York
The landscape will join a 20-acre network of café-lined esplanades, pedestrian bridges, and boat launches that are coming together along the canal as sites are redeveloped. “Already 10 properties have applied to create these privately owned public spaces,” says Diana Gruberg, landscape director of the advocacy and stewardship group, the Gowanus Canal Conservancy.
Continuing Education: Office Conversions
With hybrid and remote work schedules leaving millions of square feet of empty office space, “private owners are suffering,” says Eran Chen, a founder of the New York architecture firm ODA. “They may lose buildings to their banks; cities are losing real-estate tax dollars,” he adds.
A+I and Lighting Workshop Rejuvanate the Lobby of Penn 1
In contrast to the prevailing predilection in Manhattan for defining prestige and status through lobbies slathered in gleaming white marble, lit as intensely as an operating theater, the firm Architecture Plus Information (A+I) assembled a mainly subdued palette of wood, stone, and bronze at Penn 1, a 57-story tower designed by Kahn and Jacobs, adjacent to New York’s main rail hub, Pennsylvania Station.
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