For the second year in a row, SVA is offering up space through its MFA in Products of Design for summer desk rentals. Summer Desks, is a co-working space lasting from the end of may through the end of August. The space was originally designed by ANDarchitects

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The original apartment was awkwardly laid out with oddly placed and sized rooms, none of which were really large enough for a bed or a couch. The owners wanted to use it as a pied-à-terre and enlisted the help of NYC firm Specht Harpman to handle the renovations.

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Herbie Fletcher began surfing in Huntington Beach when he was just 10, but later moved to Hawaii and became a professional surfer and the owner of several surf and snowboard lines. Also an artist, Fletcher shapes and paints boards to create fine art. His latest

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Fishers Island is located at the entrance of the Long Island Sound and is actually closer to Connecticut than New York. The vacation beach home was designed by Resolution: 4 Architecture for a large family and features 6 bedrooms and 5 baths. At 4,469 sq ft,

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This multi-purpose home in Greenwich was created by Robert Young Architecture for a pair of artists. At 10,000 sq. ft. this is certainly no micro home – in fact, the house contains two large multipurpose galleries with 16-foot ceilings and ancillary rooms

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The Bluff House was completed in 2012 and is a vacation house with amenities that make it comfortable year-round. Located at the end of a new subdivision in Montauk on a flag-shaped parcel, the home is appropriately positioned to take in the sights of the

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Broken Bridge II is the second iteration of El Anatsui’s artwork, with the original shown in Paris during the 2012 Triennale. The latest version was made with the same materials but reworked to fit the expansive facade of a brick building between West 21st

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If you were one of the many New Yorkers touched by Iwan Baan’s haunting, half-dark image of post-Sandy Manhattan, the Museum of Modern Art is now offering you a chance to own a copy of your very own. The emotion-stirring image first graced the cover of New

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Sunrise Yard consolidates the DOT’s maintenance programs into one facility located in a residential area of Queens. Designed by Gruzen Samton • IBI Group, the 27,000 sq. ft. building provides a home base for the carpenters, electricians, and plumbers who

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Claustrophobic readers should probably click away now before we start describing this super-skinny Murray Hill townhouse that measures in at just over 11 feet wide. Its slim profile might be the reason it's been on the market for as long as it has, but the owner, artist Patricia Nix, recently lowered the price down to $3,995,000. The home may be slender but it includes plenty of space for an artist's studio as well as bedrooms, loads of natural light, a sunroom and a garden.

 

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Hudson Yards is currently a predominantly blank space on the west side on Manhattan above 33rd Street, but is set to become a bright spot in the city with lots of new amenities. The 26-acre site is the single largest piece of undeveloped property in Manhattan

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PS 62 will be located on a 3.5-acre site at the intersection of Crabtree Avenue and Bloomingdale Road in Richmond, Staten Island. The school will serve 444 primary age students and is expected to be complete and ready for use by fall 2015. Designed by SOM

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Cornell Tech will begin construction on their new Roosevelt campus starting in 2014 and expects to have Phase I completed by 2017. The overall campus plan is being designed by Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, LLP and will include the first academic building,

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The Wardenclyffe building in Shoreham, Long Island is Nikola Tesla’s last surviving workshop and was recently up for sale. Fearing the historic property would be purchased by those unsympathetic to Tesla and his work, Matthew Inman of the comic web site, The

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The Meadow Structure at the Staten Island Children’s Museum is a 2,200 square-foot tensile roof featuring Birdair’s steel cable systems and PTFE and a Teflon®-coated woven fiberglass membrane combined with thin-film photovoltaic panels. The PFTE material

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The Artist’s Retreat is a 2,550 sf sustainable summer escape with 3 bedrooms and 3 baths in Water Mill, NY. As the home is used by an artist and her mother, it was designed to provide separate spaces for each person as well as shared common spaces. A rooftop

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The Hegeman Residence provides permanent, affordable housing for single adults in the under-resourced neighborhood of Brownsville, Brooklyn. This is the first project for Common Ground Community developed under their Green Campaign, which emphasizes good health

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House By The Pond is a two-story, five bedroom home located in Water Mill, NY. The owners tasked Stelle Architects to craft a home that would meet their needs as well as the specific environmental regulations of the site. The home is composed of a two-story

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Grzywinski+Pons was tasked by the owners to design a country respite to retreat to on the weekends to get away from the city. They wanted a low maintenance, durable and eco-friendly home that could eventually become their primary residence. In addition, they

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Mayor Bloomberg’s plan for the East River Waterfront revitalization takes advantage of a neglected, inaccessible stretch of land to create 2 miles of recreational opportunities. SHoP Architects undertook the job of designing the new park along with the renovation

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Located on a former horse ranch with rolling green pastures, Genius Loci enjoys one of the highest locations in Montauk. Taking in views of the surrounding landscape as well as the ocean below, the home seeks to blend into the site rather than stand out. Partially

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Axis Mundi apparently didn’t like Renzo Piano’s design for the Whitney Downtown museum and decided to come up with their own. The design takes inspiration from the original Whitney and the geometric window cuts are replayed but in a much larger version. To

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Origin is the latest installation by United Visual Artists (UVA) to explore and create large-scale responsive LED sculptures. Built from 125 two-meter cubic spaces, Origin is at once both a sculpture and a living being. Linear LED strips are mounted in the

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The Peconic Bay House is a RES4 prefab home with a master suite, living, kitchen and dining room upstairs with two guest rooms, bathroom, a media/study and the entrance on the ground floor. At only 2,364 sq. ft., the compact home takes up little space on the

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The Surfside vacation retreat includes the main house, a guest house, a two-car garage, and a free-form, chlorine-free pool. The home was remodeled from an existing home. The structure was elevated and upgraded with a durable steel frame, and clad in wood

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