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What if Broadway Was Turned Into a Giant Linear Park?
New York has undertaken several projects over the years in an effort to beautify its stark, gridded streets. There was the Park Avenue Malls, turning major intersections like those at Madison Square...
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Earlier this week, 6sqft brought you a proposal by Perkins Eastman Architects to turn a 40-block-long stretch of Broadway into a linear park. Stretching from Columbus Circle to Union Square, the Green...
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A 1924 Proposal Would Have Drained the Entire East River to Reduce Congestion
Remember 6sqft’s post about a madcap engineer who wanted to pave over the East River in 1911 in order to create a “Mega-Manhattan?” Well, 13 years later, John A. Harris, deputy police commissioner in...
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Renderings Revealed for Governor Cuomo’s $3B Penn Station Overhaul
one moment please...Penn Station, New York, NY, United States+ Expand- collapse6sqft asked readers yesterday if Governor Cuomo would finally be able to get the Penn Station overhaul off the ground,...
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Graphs Show How Skyscrapers Relate to Their Cities–and Whether We Need More...
Graph: The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat Tall buildings help make cities great. Except when they don’t. Citylab looks at a new study and graphs that show where skyscrapers fit into what...
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Why Is There a Sixth-and-a-Half Avenue in Midtown?
one moment please...6 1/2 Avenue Pedestrian Arcade, New York, NY, United States+ Expand- collapseIf you’ve never heard of it, that may be because this quarter-mile, pedestrian-only street is nearly...
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Escobedo Solíz Studio’s Wild ‘Woven’ Design Will Fill MoMA PS1’s Summer...
one moment please...MoMA PS1, Queens, NY, United States+ Expand- collapseMoMA has announced that the Mexico City-based architecture firm Escobedo Solíz Studio was selected as the winner of the 2016...
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They Paved Washington Square Park and Put Up a Parking Lot
one moment please...Washington Square Park, New York, NY, United States+ Expand- collapseImage via NYU Local It’s true: Washington Square Park was, in part, Washington Square parking lot. In the 1960s,...
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A 1934 Engineer’s Plan Fills In the Hudson River for Traffic and Housing
In mid-20th century America–particularly in New York City–a roaring economy emboldened by our ascendant international stature filled many a scholar of public infrastructure with eagerness to execute...
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Skyline Wars: What’s Rising in Hudson Yards, the Nation’s Largest...
one moment please...500 West 33rd Street, New York, NY, United States+ Expand- collapseCarter Uncut brings New York City’s breaking development news under the critical eye of resident architecture...
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Beyond Bars: Designers Reimagine Rikers Island As a Destination
one moment please...Rikers Island, NY, United States+ Expand- collapseCurtis + Ginsberg Architects’ “city blocks” The 413-acre plot of city-owned land, most of it landfill, that makes up Rikers Island...
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Stuff You Should Know: How Air Rights Work
Image of One57 © Wade Zimmerman courtesy of Agence Christian de Portzamparc (ACDP) “For whoever owns the soil, it is theirs up to Heaven and down to Hell.” Most folks outside the architecture and real...
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The Bedrock Myth: The Evolution of the NYC Skyline Was More About Dollars...
Manhattan, and the bedrock beneath it, via imgur The reason so many skyscrapers are clustered Downtown and in Midtown isn’t so much because of geological feasibility as because everybody else was doing...
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Why Micro-Apartments in Carmel Place Are So Expensive
one moment please...335 East 27th Street, New York, NY, United States+ Expand- collapseWe’ve been hearing a lot recently about the city’s new micro-apartments. As 6sqft has reported, NYC’s first micro...
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360º Views: This Is the Largest Panoramic Photo of New York’s Skyline Ever Taken
Just when we thought we’d seen every angle of the New York City skyline possible, here comes a mind-bogglingly detailed panorama courtesy of photographer Jeffrey Martin. According to the Daily Mail,...
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Don’t Miss Toyota’s Ten-Story, Climbable Times Square Billboard
one moment please...1568 Broadway, New York, NY, United States+ Expand- collapseToday’s your last chance to catch three professional climbers and one “daredevil amateur” scale a 100-foot-tall billboard...
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Skyscraper Proposal Digs Out Central Park and Surrounds It With 1,000-Foot...
Evolo has announced the winners of its 2016 Skyscraper Competition, and, somewhat ironically, the number-one spot goes to a proposal that doesn’t build up at all, but rather digs down. New York Horizon...
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New Looks for Staten Island’s $200M Mixed-Use Complex Lighthouse Point
one moment please...St. George, Staten Island, NY, United States+ Expand- collapseEarlier this year, after a decade of delays, Triangle Equities received $16.5 million in state subsidies for their...
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Across from Hudson Yards, Architect Proposes 9-Acre Floating Island As an...
one moment please...650 West 33rd Street, New York, NY, United States+ Expand- collapseNew York architect and longtime visionary Eytan Kaufman has drawn up a conceptual plan to connect the final leg of...
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POLL: Are Floating Parks the Future of Public Space in NYC?
Yesterday, 6sqft uncovered conceptual renderings for a nine-acre island/pier in the Hudson River that would serve as a final terminus for the High Line. It would be a circular-shaped cultural and...
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