New York will invest to achieve resiliency

Henry Melcher reports for The Architect’s Newspaper: COME HELL OR HIGH WATER. BIG, SCAPE, Penn Design/OLIN, OMA, MIT, and Interboro win HUD’s resiliency competition, Rebuild by Design. THE TEAM LED BY BIG PROPOSED A LANDSCAPED BERM AROUND MANHATTAN TO PROTECT AGAINST FLOODING. In April, when the 10 finalists in the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Rebuild By Design competition presented their plans for

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Landmark building adaptive reuse with a twist

Aaron Seward reports for The Architect’s Newspaper: IN DETAIL> 837 WASHINGTON STREET. Morris Adjmi adds a twisting topper to a meat packing building. The design of the addition’s exoskeletal structure references Greenwich Village’s Street grid. The orthogonal street grid of New York City’s Commissioners’ Plan of 1811 collides with Greenwich Village’s wickerwork layout at 14th Street. While everything above that

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