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.

Architecture dictates behavior. When we design a floor plan, we are mapping out exactly how people will move through a space.

The 64th edition of Salone del Mobile, running April 21 through 26 at Fiera Milano Rho, marks a transition from viewing sustainability as a finished product to treating it as a starting condition.

What Is Actually Happening…For six hours on Saturday April 25, dozens of streets across all five boroughs will close to vehicle traffic.

On May 9, the 61st Venice Biennale opens to the public. It runs through November 22, spread across the Giardini, the Arsenale, and various locations throughout Venice, with 111 artists and 99 national pavilions.

This May, a floating pool called +POOL is scheduled to be installed at Pier 35 on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.

New York City has many offices and perhaps not enough apartments. The math on that problem is finally starting to move, and from a sustainability standpoint, the way it's moving matters.

Spring is back, and so is outdoor dining in New York City. On April 1, roadway cafes are permitted to open across the five boroughs under the city's Dining Out NYC program.

There is a shift happening in hospitality that most people notice but few can explain. You book a hotel because of the bar. Not the rooms, not the spa, not the rooftop pool. The bar.

Fire escapes became a fixture of New York City buildings after a series of fatal tenement fires in the 1860s. After the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in 1911, which killed 146 workers, the rules tightened further.

One of the most visited landmarks in the world, drawing roughly 19,000 pedestrians a day, deposits people into a forgotten stretch of land that nobody seemed to know what to do with. A nonprofit called Gotham Park is changing that.

We have all done it. We clean out our closets, bag up our old jeans and t-shirts, and drop them in a donation bin, assuming they will find a second life with someone in need.

If you walk through SoHo or Tribeca today, you will likely spot the "purple dots." These small, circular pieces of glass set into the sidewalk have become a sort of scavenger hunt item for tourists and locals.

What if the buildings we live and work in were less like static objects and more like living organisms? It sounds like a concept from a science fiction novel, but it is a necessary evolution for the most common building material on Earth.

When we walk through the lobby of the Empire State Building, a mid-century school, or a modern airport terminal, we often at the floor. We see a smooth, speckled surface that feels permanent and utilitarian.