Kelly Chan
Last year marked the first year New York City’s commercial buildings were mandated to publicly disclose their energy usage levels, and with that, some of the city’s most esteemed works of architecture were subjected to a new wave of scrutiny. While the...
On April 19, 1965, New York City mayor Robert Wagner enacted the city’s Landmarks Preservation Law, and the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission was formed, tasked with safeguarding the city’s rich architectural history by identifying and...
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s 1958 Seagram Building is a landmark that hardly needs introduction. The handsome Manhattan office tower — famously set back from the street to form a dramatic Park Avenue piazza — has consistently garnered praise for its...
It’s safe to say that few in the architecture community were surprised when Toyo Ito was named the 2013 Pritzker Architecture Prize laureate this past Sunday. For many, Ito’s newest accolade is long overdue: The 71-year-old has produced a robust portfolio,...
In a recent farewell speech as outgoing Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton made a rather unexpected reference to Frank Gehry, using the architect’s signature slapdash compositions as an analogy for a new approach to foreign relations: “Where once a few...
Since its mid-February opening, the new David Zwirner Gallery on Manhattan’s West 20th Street has attracted throngs of art enthusiasts eager to experience anew works by Dan Flavin and Donald Judd, the gallery's inaugural headliners. Much of the...
This June, the Museum of Modern Art will present the largest exhibition on Swiss/French architect Le Corbusier (né Charles-Édouard Jeanneret) ever produced in New York City. “Le Corbusier: An Atlas of Modern Landscapes” will offer another opportunity to...
A hundred years have passed since the first train departed from New York’s Grand Central Terminal. While the city around it has certainly changed, the station’s impeccable integration of locomotive, subway, automobile, and pedestrian traffic...
Do you know of an alternative space in the United States that would be a good fit for our series? E-mail us at newseditors[at]artinfo.com with the word ALTERNATIVES in the subject line.After noticing a number of empty storefronts in the neighborhood, Seattle-...
Yesterday, Apple procured yet another registered trademark certificate from the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, this time covering what is, in a sense, its largest design asset yet: its architecture. As Patently Apple reports, the “Distinctive Design...
