April 23, 2012 08:30AM L&L Holdings Chairman David Levinson and 425 Park Avenue (building credit: PropertyShark) L&L Holdings has taken a major step towards erecting the first new office tower along Park Avenue in more than 30 years. The Wall Street Journal reported the firm has reached out to 11 big-name architects, including three Pritzker Prize winners, for design ideas
Jennifer S. Altman for The New York Times Derrick Taitt and his neighbors tried to save the graffiti-covered building at 58 East 126th Street. By CARA BUCKLEY Published: April 15, 2012 Gentrification, or at the very least prettification, has reshaped block after block in Harlem, but it has not fully arrived at East 126th Street between Madison and Park Avenues.
Modernism, despite the popularity of Mad Men and shelter magazines like Dwell, is under assault. Iconic works of architecture and landscape architecture from the 1960s and 1970s have a particularly high mortality rate, though because of cultural and other biases, it’s usually the endangered buildings we hear about and not the landscapes. Two places, both recognized as Modernist masterworks, are
Architectural Ugly Ducklings May Not Get Time to Be Swans Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times The Orange County Government Center in Goshen, N.Y., has been closed since it was damaged by storms in September. By ROBIN POGREBIN Published: April 7, 2012 GOSHEN, N.Y. — As Modernist buildings reach middle age, many of the stark structures that once represented the
