Architecture review: A look at Two Trees’ “daring” vision for Domino Sugar
This week Two Trees Management revealed a new vision for its conversion of the Domino Sugar factory site in...
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Architecture review: The Stone curse
Poor Edward Durell Stone! Though Stone was one of the most original American architects of the post-war era, his name is heard these days only when someone is trying to tear down or efface...
Architecture review: Columbus Circle under wraps, out of commission
As regards the redevelopment of Columbus Circle that was unveiled five years ago, I was spectacularly wrong. When the...
Architecture review: At new East 79th Street tower, a stone-and-glass pas de deux
As long as developers are building “as of right,” as long as they do not need to win some...
Not a model Citizen
In its modest, soft-spoken way, “Citizen” is one of the weirdest names that a developer, in this case Anbau Properties, has yet bestowed upon a Manhattan residential development. True, this is an election year,...
Hyatt Union Square looks unimpressive, but hydroponic bamboo trees could provide originality
Unlike Paris, whose magistrates have enforced a general unity upon their architecture, especially as regards the height of contiguous buildings, the streets of New...
Toll Brothers erecting fine looking Francophile condo on East 65th Street
About a year and a half ago, I wrote an article in The Real Deal about 535 West End...
Fifth Avenue Apple flagship facelift subtle, but profound
One does not usually speak of commercial real estate in terms of the miraculous, but as regards the Apple’s...
Park Avenue Armory to go from childhood haunt to vibrant place
From left: Park Avenue Armory and a rendering of its renovated interiorThe Park Avenue Armory, which takes up the...
Lower Manhattan’s Fiterman Hall holds no promise of architectural distinction
From top: James Gardner, renderings of the new Fiterman Hall and the destruction of Fiterman Hall after 9/11One of...