LEED Gold Helena Tower Will Boast NYC’s Largest Residential Composting Program

LEED Gold Helena Tower Will Boast NYC’s Largest Residential Composting Program

Tenants of the LEED Gold Helena luxury high-rise in Hell’s Kitchen will soon be able to compost as easily as they might take out the trash. Initiated by mega developers The Durst Organization, the program will implement a rigorous composting program that will be available to the whole building. The already eco-friendly apartment building plans to offer the in-house service to all of its 600 units.
 

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Greenpoint Landing: New Development Could Link Greenpoint to LIC With Santiago Calatrava Bridge

Greenpoint Landing: New Development Could Link Greenpoint to LIC With Santiago Calatrava Bridge

The undeveloped industrial part of northern Greenpoint may soon be the city’s next premier neighborhood – complete with its own Santiago Calatrava bridge! Handel Architects has designed ten luxury towers that would completely transform and enliven twenty-two

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Construction on Herzog and de Meuron’s Gorgeous Glass 56 Leonard Tower Will Finally Begin This Week in Tribeca

Construction on Herzog and de Meuron’s Gorgeous Glass 56 Leonard Tower Will Finally Begin This Week in Tribeca

Construction on Herzog & de Meuron's almost-forgotten 56 Leonard Street tower is slated to finally begin this week. When completed in about four years, the gorgeous, pixelated Tribeca luxury tower will boast its very own Anish Kapoor sculpture, and have 145 cantilevered units with private shaded terrace gardens.
 

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Cassowary Room: Old Caviar Warehouse Office Renovated to Look Just Like Days of Yore

Cassowary Room: Old Caviar Warehouse Office Renovated to Look Just Like Days of Yore

The Cassowary Room is a renovation of a home office in a NYC loft by Dash Marshall LLC. The space was originally a caviar warehouse built in the 1890s. It was renovated in 2005, but Dash decided to roll back time and reconstruct the old caviar boss’s office

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Fans Successfully Purchase Nikola Tesla’s Long Island Workshop to Turn it Into a Science Museum

Fans Successfully Purchase Nikola Tesla’s Long Island Workshop to Turn it Into a Science Museum

Nikola Tesla fans will now have a place to pilgrimage to in order to honor the great scientist and inventor. A recent online campaign (Let's Build a Goddam Tesla Museum) started by Matthew Inman of The Oatmeal raised over $1,370,511 with the help of 20,000 supporters and a grant of $850,000 from the state of New York to buy Tesla's only surviving workshop at Wardenclyffe on Long Island. The group just completed the purchase of the property and will be turning the historic place into the Tesla Science Center at Wardenclyffe. We can hardly wait until the renovation is done to pay tribute to the master.
 

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Julian Hoeber’s Disorienting “Gravitational Mystery Spot” Architecture Pops Up in New York

Julian Hoeber’s Disorienting “Gravitational Mystery Spot” Architecture Pops Up in New York

It takes a lot to faze a New Yorker, but Julian Hoeber's trippy "gravitational mystery spots" might just do the trick. Hoeber recently brought his Demon Hill #2, a room designed to give inhabitants a sense of uneasiness and vertigo to the Chelsea galleries of Harris Lieberman, and people are already lining up to experience it. The first Demon Hill architecture exhibition at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles attracted a record-breaking 17,000 visitors, so we anticipate that the sequel is a must-see.
 

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Landmarks Preservation Commission Approves East Village and Lower East Side Historic District

Landmarks Preservation Commission Approves East Village and Lower East Side Historic District

After six grueling years of consideration, the Landmarks Preservation Commission has finally decided to approve the East Village/Lower East Side Historic District. This means that over 300 historic buildings throughout lower Manhattan, some that have remained

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Riverside Clay Tennis Club Looks to Install Flower-Fertilizing, Solar-Powered Bathrooms

Riverside Clay Tennis Club Looks to Install Flower-Fertilizing, Solar-Powered Bathrooms

The Riverside Clay Tennis Club has been making do (or doodoo, depending on how you want to look at it) with a set of unsavory port-o-potties, but is now looking to upgrade. Cook + Fox Architects has designed the club a new eco-friendly, off-the-grid restroom

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PHOTOS: 5 NYC Fantasy Lofts, Triplexes and Townhouses from Dwell’s City Modern Home Tours

PHOTOS: 5 NYC Fantasy Lofts, Triplexes and Townhouses from Dwell’s City Modern Home Tours

Controlled voyeurism took over New York City this past weekend as Dwell and New York Magazine hosted the very first City Modern Home Tours and opened up some of the Big Apple's most opulent homes up to curious cats like us. Oohs and ahhs abounded as visitors padded around hard-wooded corners in their blue sanitary booties (hey, you wouldn't want hundreds of people scuffing up your floors either, would you?) and admired fantasy features like seemingly endless walls of built-in storage, an indoor koi pond, a green-walled living room, giant windows and more terraces than we could count. We were also pleasantly surprised to learn that most of these dream homes also boast sustainable features like low-e windows, planted facades, solar shading, double windows, vintage and reclaimed materials and more. Step into our gallery to take your own little tour through these truly spectacular and inspiring Manhattan lofts, triplexes and townhouses.
 

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Barclay Tower to Be NYC’s First Intelligent Energy Storage-Powered High Rise Building

Barclay Tower to Be NYC’s First Intelligent Energy Storage-Powered High Rise Building

Glenwood Management announced last week that Manhattan’s Barclay Tower will become the first battery-based, intelligent energy storage high rise in NYC. The tower will feature the Joule.System™, developed by Demand Energy Networks, Inc., which is capable

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SPURA and Urban Design: Why Settle for a Near-miss?

SPURA and Urban Design: Why Settle for a Near-miss?

Nearly half a century ago, somewhere around 7,000 residents were displaced from their homes on the Lower East Side to make way for an urban renewal project. That area still sits empty today, home to no one except some parked cars and trucks. Years of contentious

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Parsons Designs New Community Center and Splash House for Highbridge Pool

Parsons Designs New Community Center and Splash House for Highbridge Pool

The residents of Washington Heights just welcomed a new recreation center and pool to Highbridge Park. Designed and built by Parsons Design Graduate Architecture students, the Highbridge Pool and Recreation Center has been given a modern renovation from its original WPA-era roots. The new center is open year-round, with a multi-use Splash House that can transform depending on the needs of visitors.
 

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You’re Invited to the Guggenheim’s Stillspotting NYC Finale Event!

You’re Invited to the Guggenheim’s Stillspotting NYC Finale Event!

Still Spotting NYC is an off-site exhibition series produced by the Guggenheim’s Architecture and Urban Studies program to explore how different people living in all five New York City boroughs find respite from their own urban chaos. This series has been

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Foster + Partners’ Soaring and Sustainable Design Chosen for New 425 Park Avenue Tower in Manhattan

Foster + Partners’ Soaring and Sustainable Design Chosen for New 425 Park Avenue Tower in Manhattan

Image by dbox Branding & Creative for F+P

This morning, Foster + Partners sent us word that they recently won the competition to design a new tower for 425 Park Avenue. The tower, which will serve as office space, features sustainable considerations such

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PHOTOS: Man Builds One World Trade Center Out of Thousands of Toothpicks for His Wife Suzi

PHOTOS: Man Builds One World Trade Center Out of Thousands of Toothpicks for His Wife Suzi

Did you hear that One World Trade Center is now complete? Okay, the one in downtown Manhattan is still under construction but Stan Munro's 1:164 scale version made out of thousands of toothpicks is already standing tall, and looks almost exactly like the real deal (you know, besides being made of toothpicks and all). We spotted the self-proclaimed "toothpicker" at Maker Faire this past weekend as he showed off his insanely intricate architectural replicas to the crowd. Click through our pics of Munro's amazing "Toothpick City" and see how many of these masterpieces you recognize. Oh, and read on for the best part of this whole story - why Munro signs every one of his buildings "I luv Suzi."
 

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PHOTOS: This Gorgeous Green-Roofed NoHo Penthouse is For Sale!

PHOTOS: This Gorgeous Green-Roofed NoHo Penthouse is For Sale!

We fell in love with green real estate developer Matt Blesso's gorgeous green-roofed NoHo penthouse when we first saw it, and now this eco-luxe property is up for sale. After six years, Blesso has finally decided to sell his hooked-up abode in order to transform another New York apartment into a green escape. The 3,100 square foot penthouse is a beacon of sustainability and even features a lush green roof planted by a curator from the Brooklyn Botanical Garden.
 

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Don’t Miss a Rare Chance to Tour Tighthouse, NYC’s First Certified Passive House

Don’t Miss a Rare Chance to Tour Tighthouse, NYC’s First Certified Passive House

This weekend, New Yorkers will have a rare opportunity to visit Tighthouse, the first certified Passive House in NYC. The building was built in 1899 and was renovated in 2012 to operate with 90% less heating energy and 75% less energy overall thanks to its

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Perkins + Will’s LEED Platinum Lehman College Science Building Nears Completion

Perkins + Will’s LEED Platinum Lehman College Science Building Nears Completion

Lehman College students can look forward to a wonderful addition to their campus this year – a new LEED Platinum science building designed by Perkins + Will. The new facility will be a lively ‘campus within a campus’ and will support the school’s

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On the High Line is an App That Lets You Explore the Famous Elevated Park With Your iPhone

On the High Line is an App That Lets You Explore the Famous Elevated Park With Your iPhone

Next time you visit the High Line, get the inside scoop without having to carry around a heavy guidebook with On The High Line, a new app for the iPhone. Released by illustrated book publisher Thames & Hudson, the dynamic insider’s guide to the High

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Open House New York Weekend: Explore Some of NY’s Most Private Architectural Wonders for Free

Open House New York Weekend: Explore Some of NY’s Most Private Architectural Wonders for Free

Whether you’re an architecture geek or simply a voyeur, don’t miss your chance to get a glimpse into some of the city’s most amazing private spaces during Open House New York Weekend on October 6th and 7th. During those two days, some of the NY’s most fascinating

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8 Amazing Hidden Rooftop Houses You’ve Probably Never Noticed in New York City

8 Amazing Hidden Rooftop Houses You’ve Probably Never Noticed in New York City

From solar arrays and green roofs to exquisite gardens and massive farms, rooftops in New York City boast a lot more than just air conditioners and water towers. Covering our buildings' roofs is a hallmark of sustainable building, and in a dense urban landscape like the Big Apple, it also makes total sense for maximizing our space. While green gardens and relaxing sundecks are no-brainers, what about entire houses? More than a few New Yorkers have turned building rooftops into their own private plots. Not only are these abodes a unique twist on green roofs, but they add some unexpected variety to our concrete jungle. Hit the jump for a look at NYC's sky-high homes.
 

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Get Ready for Archtober, NYC’s Month-Long Architecture and Design Festival!

Get Ready for Archtober, NYC’s Month-Long Architecture and Design Festival!

Calling all design junkies and architecture lovers! Archtober is back, and it’s bigger and better than ever. This year the AIA NY and The Center for Architecture have teamed up with nearly 50 organizations across Manhattan and Brooklyn to bring 31 days packed

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PHOTOS: Don’t Miss Your Last Chance to Work for Free from a Loosecubes Shipping Container Office

PHOTOS: Don’t Miss Your Last Chance to Work for Free from a Loosecubes Shipping Container Office

This post about Loosecubes' pop-up co-working space has been one of our most popular this month, so we want to let everyone know that this Friday, the 28th, will be your last chance to go to Dekalb Market and experience this uber-cool office for yourself. Loosecubes took up residence in a shipping container office at the Brooklyn market at the beginning of September and has been offering free working space to freelancers every Friday since then but this coming Friday will be the last day. So if you haven't yet, sign up to work from the cheerful cargotecture office today, and check it yourself before it's too late!
 

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Staten Island Children’s Museum Gets a Striking New Solar-Power Shade Structure

Staten Island Children’s Museum Gets a Striking New Solar-Power Shade Structure

The interactive Staten Island Children's Museum has a striking new outdoor shade structure that does more than just provide a cool place for a picnic. The PFTE tensile pavilion is topped with integrated thin-film photovoltaics that work to generate electricity for low-voltage lighting. Designed by Marpillero Pollak Architects in conjunction with Birdair, Inc., a tensile structor fabricator, the Meadow Structure is a playful space that also educates visitors about renewable energy.
 

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Long Island’s LEED Platinum Yes We Can Community Center Opens Its Doors!

Long Island’s LEED Platinum Yes We Can Community Center Opens Its Doors!

Earlier this month, North Hempstead unveiled the first LEED Platinum community center in Long Island. The Yes We Can center boasts green features like a solar carport, geothermal heating and cooling, solar panels, and rooftop rainwater collecting bins for

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