Most are familiar with Avon for their cosmetics but do you know the story behind company's long history of corporate citizenship? Since its founding in 1886, the company has created the largest social network for women and established programs to empower women economically. It has also contributed to pertinent female issues such as breast cancer and the effort to combat domestic violence. Now, adding an additional pillar to the company's sense of corporate responsibility, the new Avon New York Headquarters paves the way for sustainability as it heads toward LEED Gold certification.

 

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It’s official — the Empire State Building has been awarded LEED Gold certification. Thanks to a massive green overhaul that took more than two years, the landmark is now the tallest building in the United States to receive LEED certification. The groundbreaking

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As extreme weather events become more common and unpredictable, urban centers like New York City are presented with a prime opportunity to update aging infrastructure to better deal with flooding, contamination and other ramifications of increased climactic

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Months after the 9/11 attacks, Governor Pataki established the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation as an official commission to oversee the rebuilding process of ground zero. After years of vetoing design after design, they opened the floor for an international

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If you’ve turned on the TV or opened the newspaper in the past few days, you’ve probably heard of a little storm named Irene. Correction: a massive Category 2 hurricane named Irene that is barreling towards the East Coast and expected to slam into North Carolina

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Edible Schoolyard is the brainchild of Alice Waters, owner of Chez Panisse Restaurant in California. She began the project all the way back in 1995 at Martin Luther King Jr. middle school in Berkeley, just a few blocks from her restaurant. In an area where

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The art of the skyscraper is celebrated daily at New York’s Skyscraper Museum -- or just by looking around each morning in Manhattan. But New York is hardly the center of the skyscraper world anymore, with projects in the Middle East and Asia reaching new heights. Supertall!, a new exhibition at the Skyscraper Museum, celebrates these new feats of architecture, representing 48 of the world’s tallest buildings. Click through for a preview!

 

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From the Navy Yard to Brooklyn Bowl, this borough of Brooklyn is ahead of the game with LEED certified buildings. Brooklyn celebrates another first with Greenbelt on Manhattan Avenue, the area's first certified LEED gold residence building. The neighborhood is extra lucky because Greenbelt's ground floor is home to the  Center for Performance Research, an eco-friendly public space for dance and art performances, classes, and rehearsal studios.

 

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Solar One provides New York with public energy efficiency programs. The new space, Solar 2, will be ten times the size of the current building, enabling ample space for environmental exhibitions, community areas, and classroom space for their K-12 environmental

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Cook + Fox designed The Lucida while they were working on the Bank of America Tower, so they took a lot of what they learned on that project and applied it to residences. Natural daylighting played a major roll in the design of the building, because it was

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French Architect Jean Nouvel’s plan to adorn the Museum of Modern Art on 53rd street with his Torre Verre, often called the ‘Death Spire,’ was thought to have been put to death in 2009, when City Planning Commission chair Amanda Burden put a strong hold

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Walking through the gates of the QBG, the first thing you notice is what looks like a sloping green meadow. It usually takes a little head-craning (or a glimpse at one of the informational signs) before you notice that it’s actually not a hill you see, but

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Today is the deadline for 16,000 building owners — which represent about 1/2 of all of the city’s interior space — in New York City to hand in data on their building’s energy and water use as a part of Local Law 84, NYC’s Greener, Greater Buildings Plan

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Believe it or not, it is entirely possible to live off the grid in a city like New York. The extremely polluted Gowanus Canal is dotted with a handful of houseboats, but only the vessel painted like a circus clown is completely self-sufficient. Called “The

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Buttermilk Spa
There are plenty of spas you could visit in the city, but walking out into the muggy, crowded city streets after your massage is a bit of a relaxation buzz-kill. At the Buttermilk Falls Inn and Spa, you can indulge yourself in a serene Hudson

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The highly anticipated Dekalb Market, made entirely from shipping containers, is opening on the City Point site in Downtown Brooklyn this Saturday at 10am!

Dekalb Market is a joint venture of Urban Space (who has built similar shipping container markets

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Much like the Vietnam War Memorial and others of its kind, the highly anticipated memorial will display a list of all of the names of the victims from September 1th. Lining the walls of the two memorial pools, large bronze walls are inscribed with all 2,983

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The PABT is the largest bus station in the US and also the busiest with more than 200,000 people passing through the terminal daily. At five stories tall, the terminal not only moves 7,200 buses in and out daily, but is also home to retail space, restaurants

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The etched bar code on the curved arcade wall is a patterned interpretation of Schumacher’s piece WATER. Perhaps not so coincidentally, from a distance, the etchings look like small streams of water flowing over the glass. Visitors will be able to play the

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Crosby Street is the first New York property for the Firmdale Hotel company based in London, and has 86 individually designed guest rooms on 11 stories. Stonehill & Taylor Architects designed the Crosby Street Hotel, which opened in 2009, to fit seamlessly

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The Brooklyn Children’s Museum, New York City’s first ever LEED certified museum, just keeps getting better. The institution is expanding its space, and they recently unveiled plans for a new transparent rooftop canopy, made out of a heat-resistant ETFE skin

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Just last week, we reported that the Theater for a New Audience began construction on a new LEED-seeking theater, and now we’ve learned that another green performing arts center in the borough is also in the works. Brooklyn College broke ground this May on

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Eco-friendly New Yorkers, take a moment and pat yourselves on the back. In a new survey on the sustainability practices and policies of American and Canadian cities, New York was named the third greenest city, just behind the historically top ranked cities

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Brooklyn’s budding cultural district will soon raise the curtain on a new classic theater. Just Last Friday, construction started on the Theater for a New Audience, a Hugh Hardy designed flexible theater created specifically for the performance of Shakespeare

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The Gowanus Canal may be a Superfund site, but that hasn’t kept the surrounding neighborhood from having somewhat of a renaissance over the last few years. New apartment buildings, restaurants, and galleries continue to pop up, and just this week, the new

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