Ten years ago, Rem Koolhas would have been the last person you would have expected to be heavily involved in the protection of ancient buildings. However, in his exhibition Cronocaos, he is even campaigning for the preservation of buildings from more recent architectural periods. The show made its debut at the architecture exhibition of the 2010 Venice Biennale. Now, the unrenovated rooms of the New Museum, in New York’s Bowery district, are lending the display even more optical flair.

Architects from New York proceeded the concepts of the Audi Urban Future Award 2010. Our reporter Frank Kaltenbach visited the exhibition at the New Museum.

Achieving great effects with minimal interventions is probably the ultimate goal of any architect who is not just „in it for the money“. The MoMA in New York now showcases eleven of these (relatively) small-scale projects with considerable (mostly social) impact. Most of them, however, have already been broadcast to a wide audience on other occasions.

For years the New York design collective “Terreform ONE + Terrefuge” has also developed both radical and technically thought-out concepts for a renewable future for New York City. Because of this, the group has been awarded with the Zumtobel Group Award for Sustainability and Humanity in the Built Environment this year.

The transformation of the urban landscape within the last decades has increasingly been dominated by the demands of capitalist utilization. Due to the current crisis, however, which goes far beyond a mere crisis of the real estate and financial market, these neoliberal politics and attendant forms of production of space have been subject to a loss of legitimation.

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For almost three decades, the High Line languished like Sleeping Beauty, with even many New Yorkers unaware of the structure in their midst. In summer 2009, an 800-metre section of it reawakened as a public park.

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For almost three decades, the High Line languished like Sleeping Beauty, with even many New Yorkers unaware of the structure in their midst. In summer 2009, an 800-metre section of it reawakened as a public park.

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How do concrete planks, gravel beds, wooden benches and Corten steel fit in the master plan of the newly designed High-Line Park in New York? To find out have a look at our new film as a foretaste of the corresponding report in DETAIL English Edition 6/2009.

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An animated film shows the design features of the High Line. DETAIL.de presents the film as a foretaste of the corresponding report in DETAIL English Edition 6/2009.

Sustainable product design and a hint of the exotic are combined in the new exhibition entitled "Design for a Living World" in the Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum in New York. Ten internationally known designers were asked by the curators to develop some thoughts on unusual materials and the places from where they originate.

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Anyone who has seen the Glass Pavilion at the Toledo Museum of Art in Ohio may be able to guess that the design for this new boutique, too, is the work of SANAA’s Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa.

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The new concept for the official NYC Information Center in Midtown Manhattan by WXY architecture + urban design enables users to create custom guidebooks and itineraries, eliminating the need for print brochures. DETAIL.de shows pictures of the new visitors’ centre.

After the Empire State Building, the nearly completed Bank of America Tower is the second-highest skyscraper in New York. Located close to Times Square, the building is the outcome of many years of collaboration between two powerful instances with common interests.

Today's engineers are working across disciplines and driving innovation. MAKE IT WORK. Engineering Possibilities looks at how engineers are envisioning and realizing the future of our built environment. January 22 — April 25, 2009, Center for Architecture, 536 LaGuardia Place, New York - USA

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Additional Pictures of the projects in New York and Madrid

The Architectural League present the work and ideas of the world's most interesting and influential architects and designers to New York, national and international audiences, through lectures, exhibitions, publications, and the worldwide web.

Following a design competition with 683 submissions, the new TKTS booth, has now been opened. The brief was to redesign the 35-year-old TKTS booth, which sells half-price, same-day tickets to Broadway shows.

The historic library by John Carrère and Thomas Hastings at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street opened in 1911 as a symbol of the City’s commitment to culture and knowledge. Today it is protected as a National Historic Landmark. It offers free access to its collections and information, as well as to its range of services. It also comprises four research centres.

On Monday, November 3rd at 7 pm, Kengo Kuma, who established the Japanese architectural firm Kengo Kuma & Associates in 1990, is holding a lecture on their current works in The Great Hall, the Cooper Union in New York.

Zaha Hadid has created a series of sculptural installations for a two-venue New York exhibition, opening on November 1st 2008. According to Kenny Schachter, the curator of the show, each installation offers elements of various architectural projects Hadid has been working on. They will be on display at Sonnabend Gallery and 168 10th Avenue until December 13th.

On Tuesday, October 28th at 7pm, Craig Dykers, the co-founder of the architecture and design firm Snøhetta is holding a lecture on their current works in The Great Hall, the Cooper Union in New York.

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Time-lapse clip of the New Museum’s construction.

Construction begins in New York City on the first high-rise tower of Herzog & de Meuron. The building at 56 Leonard Street will be a 57-story residential building at the intersection of Church Street and Leonard Street in the Tribeca Historic District of downtown Manhattan, where it will rise above historic 19th century neighbours.

The digital installation "Pré", consisting of 365 drawings made by Steven Holl between 2002 and 2008, will be on view on MoMA's third floor platform connecting The Philip Johnson Architecture and Design Galleries from August 11, 2008, to February 2, 2009.

Projects by Estudio Teddy Cruz, a San Diego-based architecture firm will be on display from July 10 through October 25 in an exhibition entitled Practice of Encroachment: From the Global Border to the Broder Neighbourhood, presented at the PARC Foundation Gallery, New York.

The New York City Waterfalls by Olafur Eliasson, a major work of public art presented by the Public Art Fund in collaboration with the City of New York, were launched on June 26 and will be on display through October 13.

A new gallery, the Artfarm, was opened on June 28th, 2008 in the Town of Clinton in the State of New York. The design for the gallery and storage came from the Swiss architects HHF and was created together with the artist Ai Weiwei.

Models and renderings of HL23, the new luxury condominiums by Neil M. Denari Architects, along with historic and contemporary images of the High Line will be on display from June 17 through September 21, 2008 in The Museum of the City of New York.

In the lecture and dialogue series „What Is Green Architecture“ at the Goethe-Institut in New York, German architect Christoph Ingenhoven holds a talk on Monday, 19th May 2008. The series focuses on the topic of sustainable architecture, Ingenhoven being one of the world’s leading representatives of ecological design.

Last week “SANAA: Works 1998-2008” opened in SANAA’s recently completed New Museum on the Bowery in New York. The exhibition is the first overview of their work in New York and provides an opportunity for the public to see the new New Museum in the context of SANAA’s practice and achievements.

New York’s High Line, the elevated abandoned rail line along the West Side of Manhattan currently being transformed into a park, will be framed at 23rd street by a fourteen story condominium tower appropriately named HL23 and designed by Neil Denari Architects of Los Angeles.

The Bronx County Hall of Justice in New York has finally been completed and opened early this year. The design by Rafael Viñoly Architects, that took 15 years to be fulfilled, is trying to signify the openness of the judicial system by implementing transparent material.

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For SANAA the challenge was to reconcile the client’s spatial requirements and New York’s building code on a site just over 20 metres in width, wedged in between the neighbouring buildings. These considerations called for a vertical building and led to the concept of stacked boxes.

Design and the Elastic Mind focuses on designers' ability to grasp momentous changes in technology, science, and social mores, changes that will demand or reflect major adjustments in human behavior, and convert them into objects and systems that people understand and use.

The Goethe-Institut in New York is starting on Thursday, February 7, 2008 a lecture and dialog series focusing on the topic of green architecture. The series will debut with a talk by Berlin-based architect Jürgen Mayer H., followed by a conversation with the series curator and moderator Dr. Andres Lepik.

The curved 49,000-square-foot building, designed by Rafael Viñoly Architects, is conceived as a new academic hub for the campus of Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, upstate New York.

A new 75-story tower designed by the architect Jean Nouvel for a site next to the Museum of Modern Art in Midtown promises to be the most exhilarating addition to the skyline in a generation. Its faceted exterior, tapering to a series of crystalline peaks, suggests an atavistic preoccupation with celestial heights.

The Tokyo-based architects Sejima + Nishizawa/SANAA have designed a breathtaking facility that will feature beautifully proportioned galleries, a theater, an education floor, our renowned New Museum Store, a café, a top floor event space with roof terraces, and more.

The building “40 Bond” was designed by the Swiss architects Herzog de Meuron. It is a radical redesign of a traditional cast iron building with utterly unique apartments and townhouses. Both have unprecedented, innovative and sophisticated layouts, details and finishes.

7 November - 21 December 2007 Opening: Wednesday 7 November, 6pm German House Gallery New York

Kevin Kennon, Principal of Kevin Kennon Architects, infuses a new design aesthetic to the historic 100 Williams Street Building in NYC’s Financial District with the opening of Booster Juice, the lauded Canadian Juice and Smoothie Bar chain this November.

In late September 2007, Storefront will celebrate its 25th anniversary with a new edition of its first event in September 1982. Entitled Performance Z-A, this 26-day celebration will be hosted in Petrosino Park, New York, adjacent to Storefront, in a specially built pavilion designed by Korean architect Minsuk Cho.

This exhibition features the proposals of the five finalists of the MoMA/P.S.1 Young Architects Program for a temporary construction at P.S.1 arts centre.