Ernesto Neto Weaves Rope Into Giant Rainbow-Colored Spiderwebs That Visitors Can Climb On

Ernesto Neto Weaves Rope Into Giant Rainbow-Colored Spiderwebs That Visitors Can Climb On

Chelsea’s Tanya Bonakdar Gallery is inviting visitors to come walk, jump and play on Brazilian artist Ernesto Neto’s giant rainbow-colored spiderwebs made of rope. The colorful nets hang as suspended winding tunnels throughout the gallery, giving adults and kids alike the opportunity to test their sense of balance. The show, entitled “Slow iis goood,” transforms multi-colored spools of rope into a floating organic landscape inside the gallery’s rooms.
 

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Morphosis to Design First CornellNYC Tech Building on Roosevelt Island

Morphosis to Design First CornellNYC Tech Building on Roosevelt Island

Thom Mayne of Morphosis Architects just beat out some serious competition as he was awarded the honor to design the first CornellNYC Tech academic building on Roosevelt Island. The six candidates included Diller Scofidio + Renfro of High Line fame; One World Trade Center designers Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), and Steven Holl Architects, however Morphosis pulled ahead and is expected to unveil initial drafts for the first of three net-zero academic buildings by November, 2012.
 

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CitiBank Steps Up as Official Sponsor of NYC Bike Share Program

CitiBank Steps Up as Official Sponsor of NYC Bike Share Program

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and CitiBank recently announced that the financial services giant will pay $41 million over five years to sponsor the city’s much-anticipated new bike sharing program. Called Citi Bike, the program will disperse 10,000

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Street Seats: Abandoned Chairs Given a Taxicab Yellow Facelift for the Armory Show

Street Seats: Abandoned Chairs Given a Taxicab Yellow Facelift for the Armory Show

For a new collection called Street Seats, Bade Stageberg Cox turned a handful ho-hum chairs found scattered around New York City into a stylish series of 50 bright yellow chairs. Cox repaired and coated each seat with a lick of taxicab-yellow paint, giving

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Two of New York’s Historic Carousels Will Be Restored for Summer Enjoyment

Two of New York’s Historic Carousels Will Be Restored for Summer Enjoyment

This summer, children of all ages can delight in riding two of New York’s historic carousels! Both the rides at Forest Park and Flushing Meadows-Corona Park are slated to be reinstated by Memorial Day in all their original glory. The vintage amusement rides

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RESTAURANT REVIEW: Blue Hill at Stone Barns is All That and a Bag of Homemade Veggie Chips

RESTAURANT REVIEW: Blue Hill at Stone Barns is All That and a Bag of Homemade Veggie Chips

"Farm-to-table" seems to be a hot buzzphrase in the food world right now but if you're looking for the real deal, it doesn't get more legit than Blue Hill at Stone Barns. In fact, the restaurant, voted one of Food & Wine's top 10 life-changing eateries, might more accurately be described as "table-on-farm", considering that many of the freshly-plucked veggies and aromatic herbs that star on their menu come from just a few yards away. We recently visited this truly unique sustainable food destination to nosh on one of award-winning chef Dan Barber's famous "farmer's feasts." Read on see to a sampling of what we ate - from a homemade melt-in-your-mouth parsnip steak to soft-shell crab with phytoplankton mayo to a colorful wall of crispy and sweet homemade veggie chips.
 

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Recyclebank’s Ron Gonen Joins Department of Sanitation With Plans to Double NYC’s Recycling Rate

Recyclebank’s Ron Gonen Joins Department of Sanitation With Plans to Double NYC’s Recycling Rate

Since the word got out that New York’s recycling rate has plummeted to embarrassing numbers, the Department of Sanitation has brought in a new leader with the hope of doubling the city’s rate by 2017. Ron Gonen will take on the dauting task of transforming

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Repurposed Barge & 100-Year-Old Tugboat Let New Yorkers Experience NYC’s Maritime History

Repurposed Barge & 100-Year-Old Tugboat Let New Yorkers Experience NYC’s Maritime History

While most New Yorkers see the rivers and harbor as barriers between boroughs, our waterways played a pivotal part in New York City's history. Throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries, New York's harbor was the busiest port in the world, filled with barges, tugs, and cargo ships. Today it seems like our connection to the water is about pretty parks and passenger ferries, but true relics still remain. The Waterfront Museum, housed on a perfectly preserved wooden railroad barge built in 1914, is a floating gallery dedicated to the harbor's history; and the Tug Pegasus, the Waterfront Museum's faithful partner, is a 105-year-old operational tugboat. Through tours and special events, the barge and tug give visitors a glimpse of New York City's maritime past.
 

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HWKN’s Cool New ‘Wendy’ MoMA PS1 Totes and Shirts Clean the Air While You Wear Them

HWKN’s Cool New ‘Wendy’ MoMA PS1 Totes and Shirts Clean the Air While You Wear Them

Since the winner of  this year's MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program was announced in February, we've been waiting with bated breath for the HWKN's awe-inspiring design, "Wendy", to pop up in the museum's courtyard. While the team gears up for construction over the next few weeks, they've also put a little bit of their design handiwork into creating some super cool tote bags and t-shirts to promote and raise money for Wendy's construction. Adorned with graphics created by the likes of 2x4, Pentagram, and Bruce Mau Design, these air-cleaning shirts and bags are at the top of our "Want It!" lists. But there is one dilemma - which one do we get?!
 

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Take the Ferry to First-Ever Frieze New York Art Fair this Weekend

Take the Ferry to First-Ever Frieze New York Art Fair this Weekend

Yesterday, Inhabitat took the fair-sanctioned ferry across the East River to Randall’s Island for the first ever Frieze New York Art Fair. With a sprawling temporary pavilion designed by SO-IL, the fair brings 180 of the world’s finest art galleries to New York. The fair invaded the western shore of the island, hugging the East River and offering visitors views of the New York skyline.
 

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NYC Enacts Zone Green Rules Enabling Easier Sustainable Building

NYC Enacts Zone Green Rules Enabling Easier Sustainable Building

Building green in New York City just got a whole lot easier. The New York City Council has updated some archaic zoning laws, enabling energy efficient and solar-powered buildings to be constructed with ease. Citywide zoning regulations, called Zone Green,

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The Landmarked Museum of the City of New York Goes Green With a LEED-Seeking Renovation

The Landmarked Museum of the City of New York Goes Green With a LEED-Seeking Renovation

For nine decades, the Museum of the City of New York has honored our city's past and celebrated its future through diverse and transformative exhibits, providing New Yorkers with a catalog of the Big Apple's perpetual evolution. As New York moves toward a more sustainable future, MCNY has not only examined the changes through special exhibits, but the institution has become a part of the changes itself. MCNY's landmarked Colonial Revival building is currently undergoing a $90 million LEED Silver renovation by Ennead Architects to bring the building up to date, helping it to engage visitors for generations to come. The comprehensive modernization and expansion began in 2006 and will be completed in 2015.
 

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Transportation Alternatives Launches City-Wide Bicycling Events Calendar

Transportation Alternatives Launches City-Wide Bicycling Events Calendar

If you’ve ever wondered how to quickly find out about bike rides happening in NYC that match your style and fitness level, Transportation Alternatives has launched a new online tool to do just that. BikeNYC.org aims to be the single reference point for an

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NativeBK Wants to Turn an Abandoned Lot in Red Hook Into a Native Plant Center

NativeBK Wants to Turn an Abandoned Lot in Red Hook Into a Native Plant Center

This summer, a couple of green-loving Brooklynites want to transform an abandoned lot in Red Hook into a native plant center that would be open to the public for free. The project, called nativeBK, has taken to Kickstarter to get off the ground. A native plant

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Shipping Container Village ‘Photoville’ Coming to Brooklyn Bridge Park this Summer

Shipping Container Village ‘Photoville’ Coming to Brooklyn Bridge Park this Summer

This summer, photography lovers will be treated to a unique experience: United Photo Industries’ pop-up Photoville, which lands in Brooklyn Bridge Park on June 22. The innovative photography experience will transform 30 shipping containers into a village

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Kick off the Food Book Fair With the Garden Gather Dinner at the Wythe Hotel

Kick off the Food Book Fair With the Garden Gather Dinner at the Wythe Hotel

In preparation for the New York Food Book Fair, the Garden Gather Dinner invites local foodies to experience a private dinner of local fare at the new Wythe Hotel in Williamsburg. This Friday, guests can partake in a unique dinner honoring co-founder of the

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Study Shows Red Oaks Grow 8 Times Faster in Central Park Due to Urban Heat Island Effect

Study Shows Red Oaks Grow 8 Times Faster in Central Park Due to Urban Heat Island Effect

A simple experiment to see how trees are affected by growing in an urban environment has had surprising results, showing that they can grow up to eight times faster due to the urban heat island effect. For the Cornell University study, researchers planted

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Honest Tea’s 30-Foot-Tall Recycling Bin Pops Up in Times Square

Honest Tea’s 30-Foot-Tall Recycling Bin Pops Up in Times Square

Coinciding with the recent reports that New York City’s recycling rate is dwindling, beverage company Honest Tea is bringing awareness to Times Square. In collaboration with GrowNYC, RecycleBank, Coca-Cola Live Positively, Global Inheritance, and Five-Boro

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Thousands of New Yorkers Recycle Electronics at the City’s Safe Disposal Event in Queens

Thousands of New Yorkers Recycle Electronics at the City’s Safe Disposal Event in Queens

Nearly 4,000 New Yorkers carted, rolled, and carried their electronics, paint, and other hazardous waste to the city's SAFE Disposal recycling event in Queens this past Saturday. Organized by the Department of Sanitation, the event couldn't have come at a better time for people looking to get their spring cleaning done without having to dump their e-waste in landfills. Inhabitat was on the scene disposing of our own CRT TV, and we were astonished to see the hordes of people approaching the parking lot of St. John's University with their disposables. If you couldn't make it to the Queens event, don't worry. There are still three more events - in the Bronx, Staten Island, and Brooklyn - this spring. Read on for the details.
 

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