Poison Ivy League: Abandoned Letchworth Village Asylum
Letchworth Village was hailed as an advanced institution at its 1911 opening but chronic overcrowding and underfunding took an alarming toll on the asylum and its inmates. Gotham's ...
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Subjective City: Massive Wall Map of NYC Assembled from Handwritten Directions
A few years back, artist Nobutaka Aozaki started asking directions from strangers on the streets of Manhattan, then collecting those maps (hand-drawn from memory) to assemble into a huge and ...
New York’s Newest Waterfront Park Revitalizes an Abandoned Industrial Site
In Long Island City, nearly 11 acres of continuous waterfront park have bloomed along a formerly abandoned industrial landscape, offering a buffet of recreational opportunities while protecting ...
Beyond the Centerline: Fantastical Urban Schemes Reimagine Road Medians
Central yet unused, the central median of New York City's Park Avenue is the subject of a series of spectacular and speculative redesigns -- from rock-climbing walls and waterfalls to kayak ...
End of Elevated Parks? UK Garden Bridge & US Pier 55 Projects in Doubt
It has been a challenging few weeks for architect Thomas Heatherwick, whose proposals for elevated green urban spaces in both London and New York City face uncertain futures. While the specifics ...
Time Machines: Langdon Clay’s Gritty Cars Of New York City
Photographer Langdon Clay captured New York's bruised & battered road warriors at rest, evoking a dirtier and more dangerous era of the city that never sleeps. New York City in the ...
1/4 World Trade Center: Tulsa’s Half-Sized, Untwinned Tower
The BOK Tower in Tulsa, Oklahoma, looks uncannily like the vanished Twin Towers of the New York City skyline and this is neither accidental nor coincidental. This skyscraper was constructed just ...
Forage-Friendly Barge Brings Fresh & Free Produce to NYC Docks
A food barge full of fruits and vegetables is coming to the waterways of the Big Apple this summer, stopping at scheduled increments to let people pick produce as it passes from one dock to the ...
Sunken Central Park: ‘Sidescraper’ Wraps Excavated Landscape
Conceived of as a hybrid, multi-functional work of landscape architecture, this award-winning design proposes digging down to the bedrock beneath Central Park and erecting a reflective ...
Portable & Potable: Water-Purifying Sculpture Cleans East River
Combining practical water purification and the fun of watching hidden processes come to life, this gigantic structure installed at MOMA PS1 in New York City features a dazzling array of plants ...
