New Shipping Container Shops Coming to South Street Seaport This Summer

New Shipping Container Shops Coming to South Street Seaport This Summer

Popular tourist destination South Street Seaport will be recovering from the damage it suffered during Hurricane Sandy with exciting new summer programming and shipping container shops. Developer Howard Hughes Corp. and NYC partnered together to bring

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Rockwell Group Unveils Plans to Build Treehouse-Inspired Playground in Brownsville

Rockwell Group Unveils Plans to Build Treehouse-Inspired Playground in Brownsville

This week, the Rockwell Group announced exciting plans to build a treehouse-inspired Imagination Playground in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Brownsville. The firm is working with NYC Parks to transform a 1.5-acre section of Betsy Head Park into an active

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How NYC Colleges Are Leading the Charge for PlaNYC Greenhouse Gas Reduction Goals

How NYC Colleges Are Leading the Charge for PlaNYC Greenhouse Gas Reduction Goals

Some of New York’s colleges and universities have been quietly making every day Earth Day with a series of efforts to boost sustainability and conservation. From adding green roofs to their buildings to installing new wastewater management systems, many

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Neighbors Report That Domino Sugar Complex Workers Are Removing Asbestos Illegally (VIDEO)

Neighbors Report That Domino Sugar Complex Workers Are Removing Asbestos Illegally (VIDEO)

Though we thought some naysayers of the controversial Domino Sugar affordable housing complex may have been assuaged by Two Trees’ plan to create a temporary urban farm and bike courses at the site, it seems a new issue has now arisen. According to resident

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Orient House IV: 1970s House on Long Island Transformed Into An Energy-Efficient Modern Home

Orient House IV: 1970s House on Long Island Transformed Into An Energy-Efficient Modern Home

Manhattan-based Ryall Porter Sheridan Architects recently renovated an existing 1970s house on Long Island into this beautiful timber-clad contemporary home. Called the Orient House IV, the modern residence is the latest in a series of weekend and summer houses designed by the architects that combine environmentally friendly strategies with the traditional timber architecture of the area.

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Columbia University Now Boasts 18,180 Square Feet of On-Campus Green Roofs

Columbia University Now Boasts 18,180 Square Feet of On-Campus Green Roofs

Green roofs are becoming a growing staple in New York City architecture. These green spaces help to reduce the “urban island heat effect” by covering buildings in grass and plants that will take in carbon dioxide, convert it into oxygen and help to cool

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MOMA PS1 Erects Temporary Geodesic Dome in Rockaways to Discuss Rebuilding After Hurricane Sandy

MOMA PS1 Erects Temporary Geodesic Dome in Rockaways to Discuss Rebuilding After Hurricane Sandy

MoMA PS1’s VW Dome 2 – the temporary cultural center created after Hurricane Sandy left Rockaway Beach severely damaged – opened last Friday with a performance by singer and Rockaways resident Patti Smith. The geodesic dome structure will be up for the

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Yahoo! Plans to Use Hydropower from Niagara Falls for New Data Center Expansion

Yahoo! Plans to Use Hydropower from Niagara Falls for New Data Center Expansion

Internet giant Yahoo! recently announced plans to expand its energy-efficient data and customer care center in Lockport, New York later this year. The expansion will use low-cost hydropower from the Niagara Hydroelectric Power Plant to decrease energy consumption

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Macro Sea to Transform Brooklyn Navy Yard into Hub For Sustainable Manufacturing Jobs

Macro Sea to Transform Brooklyn Navy Yard into Hub For Sustainable Manufacturing Jobs

New York firm Macro Sea has released a new design that would turn the Brooklyn Navy Yard into a state-of-the-art hub for technology, innovation, design and prototyping. Called New Lab, the 84,000-square-foot space is slated to be completed by 2014 with

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University of Buffalo’s Newly Constructed SEAS Building Designed for LEED Gold Certification

University of Buffalo’s Newly Constructed SEAS Building Designed for LEED Gold Certification

The University of Buffalo is attracting a new crowd of high-tech and sustainability industry leaders with the redesign of its School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) building. Designed by Perkins+Will, the airy building, also known as the Barbara and Jack Davis Hall, was designed with LEED Gold certification in mind and aligns perfectly with the university’s commitment to achieve carbon neutrality by 2030.

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8 Green Designs Included in AIA New York’s 2013 Architect Awards Winners

8 Green Designs Included in AIA New York’s 2013 Architect Awards Winners

The New York Chapter of the American Institute of Architects recently unveiled the winners of its annual design awards, and we were excited to see that eight of the top designs were focused around sustainable features. The AIA NY based their scores on quality of design, innovation, technique and response to context and community, and only 21 projects made it to the cream of the crop. The selected works will be on exhibit at the Center for Architecture from April 18th through May 31st, but if you'd like to get a glimpse of the eight green winners ahead of time, click through our photo gallery now.

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Private Golf Green and Rooftop Oasis Redefine Work and Play at a Midtown Office Building

Private Golf Green and Rooftop Oasis Redefine Work and Play at a Midtown Office Building

Wouldn't it be nice to escape your grey cubicle for a moment and step out onto a beautiful rooftop oasis like this one? That's exactly the luxury that this 7,000 square foot green roof, which was designed by HM White Site Architects and installed by New York Green Roofs, gives to employees at midtown Manhattan’s historic Western Publishing Building. Click through the gallery to see more of this incredible project, which even includes a private putting green.

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Beth Israel Hospital’s 19,000 sq. ft. Green Roof is Dotted with Diamond-Shaped Skylights

Beth Israel Hospital’s 19,000 sq. ft. Green Roof is Dotted with Diamond-Shaped Skylights

The massive 19,000 square foot green roof that sits atop Beth Israel Hospital in Union Square is one of New York City’s best-kept secrets. The rooftop, completed in November 2010 by New York Green Roofs in conjunction with Rally Restoration, boasts a rich collection of shrubs, trees, mosses and herbaceous perennials, and its sprawling size makes it one of the largest planted roofs in NYC. Step inside our gallery to see some of what this very special urban oasis has to offer, from its diamond-shaped skylights to its rainwater-filtering flora.

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MoMA Challenges Designers to Rebuild Far Rockaway Sustainably After Hurricane Sandy

MoMA Challenges Designers to Rebuild Far Rockaway Sustainably After Hurricane Sandy

Thousands of New Yorkers are still rebuilding after the devastating wrath of Hurricane Sandy – and as restoration of the hard-hit Far Rockaway continues, the Museum of Modern Art is seeking to collaborate with artists, architects and designers to rebirth the

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New Arbor House Apartment Boasts a Massive Rooftop Farm and Affordable Rent in the Bronx

New Arbor House Apartment Boasts a Massive Rooftop Farm and Affordable Rent in the Bronx

The New York City Housing Authority recently announced the opening of Arbor House, a new 124-unit, energy-efficient building located in the Morrisania section of the Bronx. The 8-story building is reserved for low-income households, is LEED Platinum-certified and also boasts a hydroponic farm on the roof that will supply residents and the community with access to fresh produce. Click through to see pictures of this exciting new green residence in NY.

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7 Bryant Park LEED Gold Office Building to Break Ground in Midtown Today

7 Bryant Park LEED Gold Office Building to Break Ground in Midtown Today

We’ve been patiently following the development of new green office building 7 Bryant Park, which will finally be breaking ground today. The state of the art building, designed by Pei Cobb Freed & Partners and developed by Hines Development, will offer 470,000 square feet of LEED-certified office space. Click through our gallery for more photos of the iconic new building that is sure to make its green mark on NYC design.

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Bold Cobble Hill Townhouse Renovation Stars Giant Living Wall of Plants

Bold Cobble Hill Townhouse Renovation Stars Giant Living Wall of Plants

The townhouse at 305 Degraw Street in Brooklyn’s Cobble Hill neighborhood isn’t your average New York rental. At a whopping $25,000 per month, the property - which offers four bedrooms, three full and two half baths - was gut renovated and finished with a giant living wall of plants. Click through the gallery to see all that this delightful home has to offer.

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One World Trade Center’s Bomb-Proof Base Gets New “Green Tech” Glass Panels

One World Trade Center’s Bomb-Proof Base Gets New “Green Tech” Glass Panels

We’ve been following the progress of One World Trade Center closely, and this weekend we were excited to see some of the first signs of sustainability pop up at the construction site. More than 2,000 state-of-the-art, “green technology” glass panels are being installed on the street level podium wall of 1 WTC, which is scheduled to be complete by the end of the year. These high-performance panels are double-paned and made with a frosted coating for absorbing sunlight and minimizing heat gain.

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New Report Shows How NYC Could Cut 90% of Its Carbon Footprint by 2050

New Report Shows How NYC Could Cut 90% of Its Carbon Footprint by 2050

With all the dire predictions about climate change in the news, it’s easy to start thinking that the problem is too large to even begin to untangle. But a new report released by the Urban Green Council, the New York Chapter of the U.S. Green Building Council, says

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Brooklyn’s El Jardin del Pueblo Transforms an Empty Lot into an Urban Farm

Brooklyn’s El Jardin del Pueblo Transforms an Empty Lot into an Urban Farm

Residents in East New York, Brooklyn have a new place to shop for their eggs without having to step foot inside of a grocery store or bodega. Instead, members of the recently unveiled El Jardin del Pueblo – a community garden project spearheaded by GrowNYC

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PHOTOS: Blu Homes Opens East Coast’s First Prefab Breezehouse in Copake, NY

PHOTOS: Blu Homes Opens East Coast’s First Prefab Breezehouse in Copake, NY

We've long been fans of architect Michelle Kaufmann's iconic Breezehouse prefab home ever since we first wrote about it back in 2005 (yes, we're getting old). The Breezehouse was one of Kaufmann's groundbreaking modern green prefab homes that helped generate interest and momentum in the prefab movement in the past decade. Kaufmann eventually sold her company and her home designs to prefab manufacturer Blu Homes in 2009, and they've been expanding on Michelle's original vision in the past few years by re-engineering the California designed home to function in cold east coast climates, due to demand from East Coast homeowners. Now, we're thrilled to report that Blu Homes just opened the first ever Breezehouse on the East Coast, in an upstate New York town called Copake.

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