Retail and parking are combined in one cylindrical structure, 426-feet in diameter. The perforated facade was created by sandblasted, poured-in-place concrete. Automobile-oriented modernism…
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Chatham Towers bring together modern building technology, daring aesthetics, elemental, sculptural form, and emerging theories of urbanism. At 25 stories, the height of the towers made it possible…
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Technology II and Begrish Hall at Bronx Community College, formerly NYU Uptown Campus.
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The two octogonal concrete towers provided a much-needed landmark to the north side of Central Park, one that grounded the skyline and intersection at the northeast corner of the park. When the first..
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1199 Plaza is a bulky brown brick apartment complex on the border of East Harlem and the Upper East Side facing the East River. It was envisioned as an urban renewal project that would break away from…
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Built in 1966, the American Bible Society building in the city to be constructed with load-bearing, precast concrete panels. Set back from Broadway with a small public plaza, and ignoring the angle of…
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Columbia University's East Campus was the first major addition to the Morningside Heights campus in decades, adding a superblock of new buildings across Amsterdam Avenue from the main campus…
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The Lowenstein Center is a narrow slab, a steel structure clad in precast-concrete with narrow vertical windows on the north and south sides. The east and west facades are windowless concrete walls…
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“One of the valiant, but misguided efforts in urban renewal, an island of concentrated poverty in a sleek superslab. What sometimes worked in Europe (Le Corbusier’s Unité d’Habitation in Marseille, France)…
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BRUTAL NYC – COMING SOON!
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The tower's top two floors cantilever out over the base on all sides, supported by large windowless concrete columns. Completely out of context in the historic neighborhood, the concrete behemoth…
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