Reimagining Brooklyn Bridge winners want to bring a forest to NYC
The Van Alen Institute and the New York City Council have announced the winners of Reimagining Brooklyn Bridge....
Testbeds repurposes architectural mockups into community assets in NYC
New York-based New Affiliates has teamed up with architect and historian Samuel Stewart-Halevy to launch Testbeds,...
Could a private car ban make NYC more livable?
When COVID-19 brought New York City’s traffic to a shadow of itself, Vishaan Chakrabarti, former New York City...
PAU unveils carbon-neutral Sunnyside Yard masterplan in NYC
Global architecture firm Practice for Architecture and Urbanism (PAU) has revealed a masterplan for transforming...
Rooftop farm grows on award-winning Denizen Bushwick building
After five years of design and construction, ODA New York has completed Denizen Bushwick, a 1.2-million-square-foot...
LEED Gold-targeted office mimics High Line via lush greenery
New York City’s award-winning High Line has attracted yet another sculptural building to its side — 512 West...
NYC bans processed meats served in public schools
In an effort to improve the Big Apple’s public health, all processed meats will no longer be offered at New York...
Central Park to undergo $150M LEED Gold-targeted redesign
To cap the Central Park Conservancy’s 40-year renewal of Central Park, the nonprofit has unveiled designs to...
Tribute in Light endangers migrating birds
New York City’s annual September 11 Tribute in Light seeks to console a still-damaged city and commemorate those...
Reclaimed NYC water towers are upcycled into a NEST playscape in Brooklyn
A giant NEST has landed on the roof of the Brooklyn Children’s Museum (BCM) — and it’s not for the birds....
NYC’s new “eco-park” and urban beach is designed to help clean the waterfront
New York City has just welcomed yet another gem to its growing number of waterfront parks — Pier 35, the long-awaited...
New York City passes landmark bill to cut carbon emissions of big buildings by 80%
New York City just passed a landmark bill to cut carbon emissions. City council members overwhelming voted in favor...
MAD Architects unveils an “organic” skyscraper piercing Manhattan’s skyline
Beijing-based architectural studio MAD Architects has unveiled an alternative vision for the skyline of New York...
An old Brooklyn sugar refinery becomes creative office spaces
A historic waterfront factory has been given a new lease on life thanks to New York-based architecture firm ODA...
Proposed $1 billion underwater pipeline will send fracked gas to NYC
There is a war brewing over the development of a new underwater pipeline in New York City. The proposed project...
NYC considers Manhattan land expansion to fight climate change
On Thursday March 14, Mayor Bill de Blasio of New York City unveiled a $10 billion plan to prepare lower Manhattan...
Meatless Mondays are coming to public schools in New York City
Public schools in New York City are starting a meatless Monday program for student lunches. School officials hope...
OMA unveils designs for zigzagging residential towers in Brooklyn
OMA’s New York office has unveiled striking designs for the Greenpoint Landing mixed-use towers—two dramatically...
NYC’s plant-filled Greenery Unlimited is “world’s first Biophilic Design Store”
An enormous green wall and a 12-foot ficus tree await visitors at Greenery Unlimited, a newly opened retail store...
Solar-powered home embraces Hudson River views and aging in place
Wanting to reconnect with the outdoors after decades of living in Manhattan, a couple nearing retirement asked...
These are the world’s top vegan cities
If traveling is a top priority for you in 2019 and you follow a vegan diet, there are some cities that are more...
New York City bans polystyrene foam starting January 1
New York City has officially become the largest jurisdiction in the United States to ban polystyrene foam food...
BIG and WeWork design a nature-inspired school for kids in NYC
Creative co-working giant WeWork and acclaimed architecture firm Bjarke Ingels Group have teamed up to reimagine...
Cities around the world lay the groundwork for a zero-waste future
Cities around the world are pledging to reduce waste over the next 12 years in an effort to curb global warming...
LEED Gold hub for artists and activists takes over an abandoned NYC firehouse
An abandoned firehouse has been reborn as the newly certified LEED Gold home for the Caribbean Cultural Center...
UN Environment and Yale present a sustainable tiny home in NYC
U.N. Environment and Yale University’s School of Architecture has unveiled an innovative tiny home that explores...
Go glamping with views of the Statue of Liberty on NYC’s Governors Island
A new glamping destination has popped up in an unlikely location — a 172-acre island just across the river from...
Renzo Piano-designed condo to become first high-end residential Zero Waste Building in NYC
Pritzker Prize-winning architect Renzo Piano’s first residential building at 565 Broome Soho is nearing completion...
The LEED Gold-seeking Edible Academy teaches urban farming in NYC
New York-based architecture firm Cooper Robertson and Mathews Nielsen Landscape Architects (MNLA) recently completed...
New resilient waterfront park helps protect NYC from storm surges
Waterfront parks have been springing up all over New York City, including in Long Island City, where Hunter’s...