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An architect’s 1969 nuclear shelter plan shows a mini-Manhattan built...
The 1960s Cold War years were America’s peak fear/fantasy period as far as the threat of nuclear weapons being deployed. Related scenarios played heavily in science fiction works and frequently...
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NYC water towers: History, use, and infrastructure
Photo courtesy of Ted McGrath on Flickr For over 100 years, water towers have been a seamless part of New York City’s skyline. So seamless, in fact, they often go unnoticed, usually overshadowed by...
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‘Loop NYC’ proposes driverless auto expressways across Manhattan and a...
Architecture/engineering firm EDG, noting that New York City faces a unique and complex set of challenges when it comes to navigating highways and byways, has offered an equally unique and innovative...
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New City Council bill would create a comprehensive urban agriculture plan for...
Image courtesy of Gotham Greens. A new bill introduced in New York City Council Thursday addresses the need for an urban agriculture plan that doesn’t fall through the cracks of the city’s zoning and...
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Muslim-backed cultural center would be the first of its kind in NYC
As a way to promote inter-religious coexistence and cultural exchange, the American Society for Muslim Advancement and Buro Koray Duman Architects have collaborated to create a design proposal for an...
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New renderings of proposed Triboro Corridor, 17-stop outer borough light rail...
Rendering: Only If + One Architecture Back in June, the Regional Plan Association (RPA), an urban research and advocacy organization, in conjunction with the Rockefeller Foundation, announced a design...
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First look at the 2017 Open House New York sites!
If you love architecture and urban design from historic to contemporary, there has never been a better time to join Open House New York for a rare weekend of access to typically off limits sites....
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Barry Diller pulls the plug on $250M Pier 55 offshore park
Photo: Pier 55, Inc./Heatherwick Studio. Barry Diller, the billionaire chairman of IAC, announced he’s killing the $250 million project that promised to bring a futuristic offshore park and cultural...
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712-foot observation tower proposed for Central Park would also clean the...
Rendering via DFA Local creative studio DFA is proposing a 712-foot public observation tower in Central Park that would double as a sustainable filtration system to clean the decommissioned and...
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Jersey City’s Harborside boardwalk to get $75M makeover and new food hall
Over the past two decades, the Jersey City waterfront has seen a huge boom in both residential and commercial development, revealing an entirely new skyline of tall, glassy towers. And now real estate...
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Kosciuszko bridge officially getting blown up this Sunday
Out with the old: The new Kosciuszko Bridge in the foreground, with the old bridge behind it. Image: Wikimedia commons. The long-delayed demolition of two old sections of the Kosciuszko Bridge has been...
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VIDEO: Watch the 78-year-old Kosciuszko Bridge crumble in minutes in...
As of 8 a.m. Sunday morning, the old, traffic-snarling Kosciuszko Bridge is no more. The decaying bridge, which was officially closed in April when the eastbound span of its replacement opened,...
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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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MAS’ new ‘Accidental Skyline’ report offers 10-point plan to keep supertalls...
6sqft has reported previously on the increasing alarm caused by New York City’s future skyline and its growing army of skyscrapers-to-be, with community groups expressing deep concern about the shadows...
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A never-built transit plan would have shuttled New Yorkers through elevated...
6sqft has marveled at the 1951 proposal by Goodyear Tires for a giant conveyor belt to carry people between Times Square and Grand Central and Alfred Ely Beach’s underground pneumatic tube system. The...
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Barry Diller’s Pier 55 offshore park plan is back on with backing from Cuomo
Photo: Pier 55, Inc./Heatherwick Studio. In September, 6sqft reported that billionaire IAC Chairman Barry Diller was giving up on the $250 million project that promised to bring a futuristic offshore...
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Penn Station and MSG get reimagined as a landscaped cemetery
MSG reimagined as a cemetery (L); Memorial walls in the subway stations (R). Via DeathLab The rant that traveling via Penn Station is enough to kill you just took on a whole new meaning. Untapped...
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Framlab proposes 3D-printed modular microneighborhoods to shelter NYC’s homeless
Image: Framlab The growing population of homeless New Yorkers is sending creative agency Framlab up a wall–literally. The Oslo- and New York City-based agency has proposed a way to provide shelter for...
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Preservation unbound: Is a plan to re-build the original Penn Station a...
Drawing of the original Penn Station, re-created. Credit: Jeff Stikeman for Rebuild Penn Station In August 6sqft reported that major work was underway in the $1.6 billion transformation of Penn...
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Interactive map shows how NYC’s waterways have evolved over the years
This map will delight any NYC geography buffs out there: The Changing Shoreline of New York City uses historical maps from the New York Public Library’s digital collection to explore how Manhattan has...
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