HDR is part of a team that was selected to provide construction management for a project to extend the Number 7 Subway Line in New York City. The contract was awarded to Hill International, LiRo Engineers, Lemley International and HDR, a Joint Venture. The team was selected by MTA (Metropolitan Transportation Authority), NYC Transit and [...]
Buildings Commissioner Patricia Lancaster unveiled the new Construction Superintendent Rule at Gracie Mansion this week as part of Construction Safety Week.
The new rule is designed to promote public safety by ensuring that construction sites are supervised by qualified individuals with the appropriate knowledge of construction and risk-prevention.
It introduces a registration requirement for individuals overseeing demolition [...]
Speaking at this week’s 11th Annual East Coast Gaming Congress, Kevin DeSanctis, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Revel Entertainment Group, announced that Arquitectonica has been named the design architect, BLT Architects has been named Executive Architect and Architect of Record and SOSH Architects has been named Associate Architect for the Company’s Atlantic City resort [...]
Design build firm MetroPartnership is seeking loft design entries, due March 9, to the Interior Motives Design Competition (pdf). Applicants will propose luxury living and working interiors for three raw lofts at Lofts at Metro92 in Yonkers, New York.
Open to designers, design firms, schools, and students, the contest is an opportunity for free publicity. On [...]
In his design for a 52-story tower across the Hudson River from Manhattan, internationally acclaimed architect Rem Koolhaas wants to inspire social interaction, life and energy.
The building’s design — three rectangular slabs stacked perpendicular to each other — allows for a mix of uses: condominiums, a hotel, artist lofts and studios, gallery and retail space.
“I [...]
New York based international design firm with offices in mid-town Manhattan, looking for creative and talented architects and designers to join our team of high energy designers. If you are interested in being part of a team of highly respected and imaginative designers who create inspired design for the hospitality, gaming and entertainment market, and [...]
When Robert Legere left his Manhattan couture wedding gown business in 2002, he reluctantly agreed to open a home-design firm in Asbury Park.
Starting out with a handful of clients who wanted help with anything from choosing the right color for their living room to redecorating an entire home, the next venture involves a partnership with [...]
The many facades of Frank Lloyd Wright – selfish, hedonistic, godlike – come to light in Manhattan with the Jan. 30 opening of Richard Nelson’s Frank’ Home.
Robert Falls directs the New York City premiere of the play about Wright re-connecting with his adult children while scoping out work in Los Angeles in 1923. The production [...]
It’s official: Two of the most iconic buildings in the United States — the Empire State Building and the White House — top the list of America’s Favorite Architecture, a public poll of the 150 best works of architecture conducted and released today by Harris Interactive and the American Institute of Architects (AIA).
This time, at [...]
ANYK, renowned New York-based Interior Architecture & Design firm, announces the completion and grand opening of Sitaras Fitness in Midtown Manhattan. ANYK blends modern utility and refined contemporary luxury to achieve owner and fitness expert John Sitaras’ vision for this stylish training facility.
The ANYK team, lead by principals Anurag Nema and Orit Kaufman, was commissioned [...]
This may be the year when environmentally focused architecture gets serious, driven by global climate change. Even smog-swaddled China is jumping on the eco-bandwagon.
Several U.S. cities — including San Francisco, Portland, Seattle and Austin — now require use of guidelines developed by the U.S. Green Building Council for public projects. (Called LEED, the guidelines encourage [...]
For Daniel Libeskind, the master planner of Ground Zero in New York, architecture and controversy go hand-in-hand.
Libeskind’s design was chosen for the 16-acre (6.5-hectare) site of the former World Trade Center destroyed by the September 11 attacks in 2001, but the rebuilding of the Lower Manhattan area has been dogged for nearly five years by [...]