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YIMBY’s 2019 New Building Report, released this time last year, showed a major jump in applications from 2017 into 2018, with new residential units filed with the Department of Buildings rising from 2 ...
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Throughout the last 12 months, the architectural community has responded in various ways to the Climate Emergency. From innovative proposals that tackle the sustainable design of healthy cities, to co ...
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Representatives from Brazil’s scientific community and government will head to Antarctica this month to inaugurate its new Comandante Ferraz Research Station, which replaces a facility lost to fire in ...
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New York City officials are pushing to legalize the use of drones for facade inspections after an architect was killed by falling debris from a building in the city. Brooklyn Borough President Eric Ad ...
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Professional Women in Construction (PWC) ended the year with its annual holiday party on December 10th at Bryant Park Grill. The event featured “20 women under 40” that were honored for their early pr ...
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A West Side property owned by a collection of A-list names—including hedge fund manager Bill Ackman, NBA superstar LeBron James and Arnold Schwarzenegger—is carrying $11 million in liens filed by cons ...
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Unloved and janky, scaffolding is New York City’s other architecture, its Tinker Toy exoskeleton. It has enraged and inspired its residents, while forever altering their behavior — there are those who ...
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New York City Council passed legislation that will now mandate all new construction use bird-safe glass on facades below 75 feet. New York City Audubon estimates that up to 230,000 birds crash into gl ...
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Construction crews are beginning a $30 million renovation project at the Smith and Casey Tower complex at SUNY Cortland.
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The one constant in New York City is change, and there’s plenty of that on the horizon in 2020. A handful of neighborhoods throughout the five boroughs are poised to undergo major changes in the comin ...
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Gov. Andrew Cuomo likes to think of himself as a master builder, and he has plenty of examples to tout – from new bridges to renovated airports. While he typically likes to think big, some are pushing ...
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Another year has come and gone, and with it came a bevy of multi-million dollar properties that the average New Yorker can’t afford. But it did provide much in the way of real estate gawking: The spra ...
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It’s been a roller coaster of a decade for New York City renters. At the beginning of the decade, the city was coming out of a period when rents had significantly dipped thanks to the 2008 recession. ...
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As a highly successful woman in New York’s male-dominated development arena, MaryAnne Gilmartin has a “mini-obsession”: She wants to oversee a commercial real estate project in which every part of the ...
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New Yorkers are used to seeing construction scaffolding all over the city, but what happens when a building has it up for more than just a couple of months? City records analyzed by the New York Post ...
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In the span of 30 years, virtual reality has transformed from a science-fiction curio to a growing asset for the real estate industry. And some of the biggest changes in the field are now becoming com ...
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For years, construction workers have faced the risk of being ostracized, bullied or fired over their sexual orientation or gender identity. After a lengthy job search in 2008, Jackie Richter, who was ...
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Dive Brief: The U.S. metros of New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, Houston, Miami, Atlanta, Washington, D.C., Las Vegas, San Francisco and Boston, according to Information intelligence firm GlobalDat ...
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Defining what constitutes fair compensation represents perhaps one of the most contentious and divisive workplace issues roiling the architectural profession in the contemporary era. Whether it’s the ...
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New York City is no stranger to colossal infrastructure and development projects that often come with harrowing delays. The past decade was no exception, with a handful of major projects that have bee ...