Climate Week NYC opens on Sunday, September 20. One independent guide counted more than 950 events this year, and about fifty of them are about buildings.

A few months back we wrote that young people are drinking less, and that the bar, contrary to the headlines, is not in trouble. That is still true. But it leaves out something happening alongside it.

Look closely at the lower stories of many new buildings going up in New York and you may notice something on the glass.

Arthur Ashe Stadium out in Flushing Meadows holds the title of largest tennis stadium anywhere.

The Enid A. Haupt Conservatory at the New York Botanical Garden is one of New York City’s great glasshouses.

There is a headline that gets recycled every few months: young people are drinking less, and the bar is in trouble. The first half is true. The second half is wrong, and the reason it is wrong is useful if you are designing a place where people gather.

For over a century, Tibbetts Brook has been New York City’s “ghost river.” Flowing south from Yonkers into Van Cortlandt Park, the brook historically reached Hester and Piero’s Mill Pond before emptying into the Harlem River.

The Port Authority Bus Terminal on Eighth Avenue in Midtown has been, by almost any measure, one of the worst large public buildings in New York City for decades.

Hiring an architect in New York City is not a simple decision. The market ranges from global firms with hundreds of employees and offices on multiple continents to small practices run by one or two principals who handle everything themselves and their team.

The Brooklyn Museum holds one of the most significant African art collections in the United States, with roughly 4,500 objects.

Serving 600,000 daily riders, Penn Station is North America's busiest and most congested transit hub. It has been that way for over sixty years.

Wagner Park sits at the southern end of Battery Park City, near the edge of New York Harbor.

When you look at a classic Manhattan skyscraper, your brain assumes it is anchored by a massive, solid mountain of concrete and bedrock directly beneath its base.

When you look at a classic Manhattan skyscraper, your brain assumes it is anchored by a massive, solid mountain of concrete and bedrock directly beneath its base.

The rooftop bar looks like a contemporary lifestyle trend born out of high-end real estate marketing.

There is a space in almost every mid-rise and high-rise building in New York City that residents rarely think about. It does not appear in listing photos and receives no design attention.

For most of the 20th century, the residential mailroom had one job.

The Standard Model Is Wasteful In commercial real estate, the standard practice for decades has been the white box.

There is a version of sustainability that architects and designers have gotten comfortable with. Energy performance, carbon footprints, recycled content percentages, and LEED points.

 The Gowanus Canal is undergoing a massive transformation. For over a century, it was a hub for heavy industry.