james gardner

This week Two Trees Management revealed a new vision for its conversion of the Domino Sugar factory site in Williamsburg. Designed by SHoP architects,...

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...

As regards the redevelopment of Columbus Circle that was unveiled five years ago, I was spectacularly wrong. When the project was still in the...

As long as developers are building “as of right,” as long as they do not need to win some variance, they seem increasingly apt...

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...

Unlike Paris, whose magistrates have enforced a general unity upon their architecture, especially as regards the height of contiguous buildings, the streets of New...

About a year and a half ago, I wrote an article in The Real Deal about 535 West End Avenue, a fine example of...

One does not usually speak of commercial real estate in terms of the miraculous, but as regards the Apple’s iconic flagship on Fifth Avenue...

From left: Park Avenue Armory and a rendering of its renovated interiorThe Park Avenue Armory, which takes up the entire east side of Park...

From top: James Gardner, renderings of the new Fiterman Hall and the destruction of Fiterman Hall after 9/11One of the lesser known examples of...

The new Wyndham Garden Hotel The 18-story Wyndham Garden Hotel is approaching completion at the intersection of the Bowery and Hester Street in Chinatown....

The High Line (courtesy of Architectural Record) Phase 2 of the High Line opened yesterday, and it is a great advance on the already...

There are few parts of Manhattan that have gone through as much hell as Peter Minuit Plaza, which cozies up to Battery Park to...

77 Reade Street The diminutive stretch of Manhattan Known As Bond Street has seen some feverish development over the past few years, including Deborah...

In the dreary world of New York City architecture, one is rarely surprised, let alone pleasantly surprised. But so I was the other day...

A rendering of the interior of the new Van Alen Books slated for 30 West 22nd Street Among those people who take a heated...

As though the release of the 200-page 2011 Zoning Handbook were not sufficiently exciting for wonkish sensibilities, the agency responsible, the Department of City...

A rendering of Robert A. M. Stern’s North Instructional Building and Library Even some of the most committed architecture buffs in New York, the...

The Hollister store at 666 Fifth Avenue The new Hollister flagship at 666 Fifth Avenue efficiently explodes the notion that a clothing store is...

There are a number of reasons why I am proud to be an American, and one of them is that Edgar Allan Poe was...