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Stealth By Design
nymag.com - 27 days ago
Stealth By Design
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How the city is sneaking great little buildings into unexpected places.

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Stealth By Design
No Land Grab — ... New York bears the scars of vast, unfinished dreams of renewal. Hudson Yards, Atlantic Yards, Coney Island, Willets Point, ground zero, Governors Island, the Gowanus Canal—all those glittering megaplans, derailed, deferred, or debased. Yet the Bloomberg administration can claim triumphs at a tiny scale: Station house by station house, library by library, the city has been doggedly smuggling high-level architecture to the neighborhoods that need it most. article

Bloomberg Actually Builds Things When Nobody's Looking
Curbed NY — ... Just in time for the election, New York Magazine checks in on New York City architecture and development during the Bloomberg years. We braced ourselves for another ...

Plans emerge for NYC's first co-housing community, More than half of Manhattanites live alone ... and more
The Real Deal New York - Latest News — 1. Architect pushes for Greenpoint waterfront tower project [Architect's Newspaper] 2. Governor's Island awaits Urban Assembly New York Harbor School opening in fall 2010 [Governors Island Blog] 3. Design commissioner brings high-level architecture to some unexpected places [NY Mah] 4. Plans emerge for NYC's first co-housing community [NY Mag] 5. Planned Long Island hotel projects may add to area's oversupply problem, travel experts say [Long Island Business News] 6. Nathan's signs lease ...

Hidden Gems of Local Modern Architecture
BushwickBK.com — ... During his time in office, Burney has been hiring high-end architecture firms to design municipal buildings, such as police stations and libraries, and as a result, he has brought snazzy new buildings to neighborhoods otherwise unlikely to get them — including Bushwick. His fight for aesthetics was recently reviewed in a New York magazine article, and one of the buildings on the list is the ...

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