Graffiti Art and HipHop Architecture
By Brian J. Pape, AIA There is a keenly watched legal battle being waged over creative expression, as noted in WestView News March and April […]
Architect Costas Kondylis Has Died
By Brian J. Pape, AIA Costas Kondylis was the creative force behind so many built works it is hard to catalogue them. For West Villagers, […]
A Tafel Surprise
By Jon D’Orazio I wish to share something I learned only last year, concerning Edgar Tafel, whom my architect father met at the ’67 AIA […]
Tribute to Architect Edgar Tafel
By Brian J. Pape, AIA 39 years ago, this summer, upon the publication of Edgar Tafel’s memoir Apprentice to Genius: Years with Frank Lloyd Wright, […]
Designing Waste—Strategies for a Zero Waste City
By Mary Chandrahasan, Partner, NDNY Architecture + Design Here are some interesting numbers to get you thinking about waste. Did you know that nearly 40 […]
Escape to Nowhere
By Ananth Sampathkumar, Partner, NDNY Architecture + Design “Man Struck and Killed by Falling Debris from New York Building Fire Escape,” read the headline from […]
Historic MeatPacking District Development
Amazingly, since we last reported on the Gansevoort Market Historic District (Nov. 2017 issue), we see the Meat Packing District quickly becoming one of Manhattan’s […]
The West Village
By Lorraine Gibney Every person who has walked through the West Village understands that this place is unique. My family arrived in New York during […]
Developments at Hudson River Park – Celebrating 25 Years of Piers
By Brian J. Pape, AIA, LEED-AP On May 30, 2003, the first completed section of Hudson River Park (HRP), which began in 1999, was officially […]
West Village Images by Joel Gordon: Jefferson Market Library
OUR VILLAGE BEAUTY: For the last ten years I have been photographing the nuances of light during seasons, time of day and weather changes. As […]
Through the Eyes of A Tourist
By Ananth Sampathkumar, Partner NDNY Architecture + Design The American Institute of Architects held its annual convention at the Javits Center in June. Over 25,000 […]
Then & Now: Milkwagon and Old Houses, 8-10 Grove Street
By Brian J. Pape, AIA, LEED-AP Abbott’s streetscapes often included horse-drawn wagons, relics of an earlier age. In this Grove Street photograph, taken the same […]
Bridges in the Sky
By Ananth Sampathkumar and Mary Chandrahasan About two decades ago, we were first introduced to skybridges. Cesar Pelli, the famed Argentine American Architect, was explaining […]
Then & Now: Rhinelander Row
By Brian J. Pape, AIA, LEED-AP Rhinelander Row is the eleven homes of three-storied, wooden-balconies built by landowner William Rhinelander in 1848, also known as […]
Sullivan’s Only Manhattan Masterpiece
By Brian J. Pape, AIA, LEED-AP Louis Sullivan’s 1897 Bayard-Condict Building was New York’s first fully steel-framed skyscraper, overcoming official suspicions. A Pioneering Creation for […]
Louis Sullivan: An Original American Architect
By Brian J. Pape, AIA, LEED-AP What differentiates the icons of architecture from the hundreds of other talented practitioners that we never hear about? Sometimes […]