Architecture
News about Architecture, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.
Chronology of Coverage
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Aug. 22, 2014
Michael Kimmelman Critic's Notebook notes research showing that well-designed patient rooms in hospitals can both improve patient's perception of care they are being given and reduce pain; findings have potential benefit both hospitals and patients by reducing costs and time in hospital and hastening recovery; both design firms and hospitals are taking notice. MORE -
Aug. 22, 2014
Joseph Giovannini reviews exhibit Times Square, 1984: The Postmodern Moment at Skyscraper Museum. MORE -
Aug. 19, 2014
Appraisal column; Thomas Paino, architect who renovated his rowhouse in Long Island City, Queens, using passive housing techniques to improve energy efficiency, has been criticized heavily by neighbors and local real estate blogs for embracing a bold exterior design. MORE -
Aug. 17, 2014
Christopher Gray Streetscapes column on aerial bridges around New York City that gave pedestrians a way to cross from building to building safely and above traffic. MORE -
Aug. 14, 2014
Q&A with Canadian-born architect Sanjit Manku, who discusses how he and French designer Patrick Jouin transformed 12th-century Saint-Lazare priory at Fontevraud Abbey in France's Loire Valley into a modern hotel and restaurant. MORE
ARTICLES ABOUT ARCHITECTURE
Deborah Sussman, Who Dressed Buildings in Vivid Colors and Shapes, Dies at 83
Known for a bold use
of color, Ms. Sussman was an early advocate of applying print elements
to campuses, buildings and cityscapes.
August 23, 2014, Saturday
MORE ON ARCHITECTURE AND: Sussman, Deborah (1931-2014)
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Design
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Architecture
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Deaths (Obituaries)
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Signs and Signage
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Olmpic Games (1984)
In Kazakhstan, a Shimmering Skyline on the Steppe
The country’s
economic boom is bringing top architects to Astana’s urban canvas,
making the capital a hotbed for architectural experimentation.
August 22, 2014, Friday
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Ritz-Carlton Hotel Co
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Aitken, Jonathan
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Nazarbayev, Nursultan A
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Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates)
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Kazakhstan
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Astana (Kazakhstan)
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Foster, Norman
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Building (Construction)
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USSR (Former Soviet Union)
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Income Inequality
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Shopping and Retail
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Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
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University of Toronto
In Redesigned Room, Hospital Patients May Feel Better Already
Often ignored by
front-rank architects, left to corporate specialists who churn out too
many heartless buildings, hospitals are a critical frontier for design.
August 22, 2014, Friday
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Hospitals
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Pain
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Nursing and Nurses
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Design
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New Jersey
Midtown Manhattan Wouldn’t Be the Same
“Times Square, 1984:
The Postmodern Moment,” at the Skyscraper Museum, displays attempts to
reimagine Manhattan’s central neighborhood.
August 22, 2014, Friday
MORE ON ARCHITECTURE AND: Skyscraper Museum
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Times Square and 42nd Street (Manhattan, NY)
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Architecture
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Art
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Historic Buildings and Sites
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Buildings (Structures)
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Manhattan (NYC)
Easy on the Environment, but Not Necessarily the Eyes
Thomas Paino planned
an environmentally friendly interior for his Queens rowhouse, but then
embraced a bold design for its exterior, which has prompted vigorous
debate.
August 19, 2014, Tuesday
MORE ON ARCHITECTURE AND: Real Estate and Housing (Residential)
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Paino, Thomas
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Architecture
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Restoration and Renovation
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Long Island City (Queens, NY)
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Sustainable Living
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Energy Efficiency
A Civilized Approach
The triple-height,
copper-clad proto-Art Deco bridge across West 32nd Street near Broadway
is a handsome example of the aerial bridge.
August 17, 2014, Sunday
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New York City
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Bridges and Tunnels
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Broadway (Manhattan, NY)
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Roads and Traffic
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Nineteen Hundred Twenties
Farewell to the Old Okura
The loss of the Tokyo hotel and its fusion of old and new will mark the end of an era.
August 16, 2014, Saturday
MORE ON ARCHITECTURE AND: Tokyo (Japan)
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Hotels and Travel Lodgings
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Architecture
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Hotel Okura (Tokyo, Japan)
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Taniguchi, Yoshiro (1904-79)
A Monastic Setting for Sybarites
Sanjit Manku, a
Canadian-born architect, worked with the French designer Patrick Jouin
to create a modern hotel and restaurant in a 12th-century abbey in the
Loire Valley.
August 14, 2014, Thursday
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Manku, Sanjit
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Jouin, Patrick
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Travel and Vacations
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Loire Valley (France)
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France
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Historic Buildings and Sites
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Interior Design and Furnishings
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Restaurants
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Monasteries and Monks
Quietly Off Kilter
The 19th-century
brownstone in New Jersey and the modernist glass-and-concrete house in
Florida share the same sensibility: subtly skewed.
August 14, 2014, Thursday
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Hoboken (NJ)
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Miami (Fla)
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Peribere, Isabelle
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Interior Design and Furnishings
When Downtown Real Estate Turned Upward
The $700,000 paid in 1905 for a lot at Wall and Broadway marked a new high for land prices.
August 10, 2014, Sunday
MORE ON ARCHITECTURE AND: Architecture
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Real Estate (Commercial)
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Financial District (Manhattan, NY)
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Historic Buildings and Sites
Advertising
Multimedia
A Model Room Becomes Real
Redesigned patient rooms at the University
Medical Center of Princeton at Plainsboro have more space for patients
and families, but some features still frustrate.
Britain at the 2014 Venice Architecture Biennale
Organizers of the exhibition “A Clockwork
Jerusalem” discuss the historic influences that shaped their
presentation of modern British architecture. The Biennale opened on June
7 and will run until November 23.
What Made Me | Charles Renfro
The architect on childhood bullies, Houston skyscrapers and his design philosophy.
Peering Into Tech’s Monuments of Innovation
Increasingly, Silicon Valley companies are
fusing their buildings with values of change, productivity and their
perceived corporate smarts and quirkiness.
Embracing Sticker Shock
Adhesive images covering two neighboring homes in Los Angeles offer privacy, and stop traffic, too.
Child-Proof Minimalism
A couple chooses a one-room suburban life with two young children. And their toys.
The Siren Song of the Hebrides
Lured by the beaches and the otherworldly light on a Scottish island, a family builds an unconventional beach house there.
The Source | Liz Diller
Doug Aitken interviews the architect Liz Diller of Diller Scofidio + Renfro.
A Home in the Spanish Pyrenees
A property in the Val d’Aran, consisting of three traditional Pyrenean farm buildings, is on the market for $4.1 million.
Here’s Looking Through You, Kid
An overnight stay in Philip Johnson’s Glass House, where many have peeked but few have slept.
Another Day, Another Catalog Shoot
Westport? So ’90s. TriBeCa? Over. Brownstone Brooklyn is ground zero for aspirational living now. Just count the ads.
Purist Paradise
A fastidious Brazilian gets the house of his dreams, with ocean views and not a speck of dust in sight.
Feels Like Old Brooklyn
Newburgh, N.Y., with its grand but neglected
architecture, is reminiscent of 1980s Brooklyn, before gentrification.
The community is working to revitalize the troubled city.
Where Peace Comes Whizzing By
While making a movie, Carrie Schoenfeld built a fossil-fuel-free country house with her husband.
After the Deluge, This
In Long Beach, N.Y., reconstruction is
prolonged and painful, with decisions guided by a single, unanswerable
question: When will it happen again?
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