Currently on display at the Museum of the City of New York , “Reimagining the Waterfront: Manhattan’s East River Esplanade” features design proposals for the East River Esplanade, a strip of land between 60th and 125th Street.
Ever wondered how much money and energy you could save if you decided to have a green roof where you live?
The Delancey Underground Project has recently won approval from Manhattan’s Community Board 3 and is moving forward on research with the support of the community and generous donations.
“Design for the Real World Redux” features submissions to the international design competition for the Victor J. Papanek Social Design Award. Papanek famously argued that “design, if it is to be ecologically responsible and socially responsive, must be revolutionary and radical”.
With a replacement in the works for the Tappan Zee Bridge, interest is gathering for the possibility of transforming the soon-to-be retired bridge into a public park.
As progress on the much-delayed Second Avenue subway line creeps along, what do they do with all the material, called ‘muck,’ excavated from the site? In fact, the New York that we know and love today is the result of recycled muck being put to good use.
New York-based BrightFarms, Inc., a company bringing locally grown produce to grocery retailers has recently released that it plans to build the world’s largest rooftop farm.
The website inhabitat.com recently reported on an audacious proposal by the organization Terreform to take sustainability to the nth level. Aided by a slideshow of…
Charles R. Wolfe, the Seattle attorney and founder of myurbanist who wrote the article on Diocletian’s Palace and its lesson on adaptive reuse (also referenced…
(Drawing via GSAPP Studio-X NYC) Last night Juliette Spertus, architect and curator of the exhibit Fast Trash, and Benjamin Miller, author of Fat of…
The Landfill is a peek into the operations of a small New York landfill that turns trash into energy. The power plant at the landfill…
The MTA’s Tunnel Boring Machine broke through to daylight on the day after Christmas, completing Tunnel A of the East Side Access project, which will…
Many heralded the opening of the High Line for its innovative reclaiming of a disused freight rail line as a public, open space. Its abandonment was due, in part, to the rise of interstate trucking since the 1950s, along with changes to the economic ge…
Aerialist above the Williamsburg Bridge
Video visualization of all human infrastructure on earth http://vimeo.com/27891029