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New York Buildings – NYC Designs
Manhattan Architectural Developments, United States of America
post updated September 20, 2024
We’ve selected what we feel are the key examples of Manhattan Buildings. We aim to include the best NYC buildings. We cover completed Manhattan buildings, new building designs, architectural exhibitions and architecture competitions across New York, NY, USA.
You may be able to see some of them as you travel across the city with an NYC Pass. The focus is on contemporary New York buildings but information on traditional New York City buildings is also welcome.
We have 7 pages of Manhattan Architecture selections with links to hundreds of individual project pages.
New York Architecture : key projects
Buildings in New York
New York Buildings : A-B (this page)
Manhattan Buildings : C-E
Manhattan Building Developments : F-K
Manhattan Building Designs : L-O
Manhattan Architecture Designs : P-S
Manhattan Architecture Developments : T-Z
Rockefeller Center – photo: Andrew McRae
Manhattan Architecture News – NYC Buildings Updates
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New York City Buildings
NY Buildings – latest additions to this page, arranged chronologically:
Mar 18, 2013
Bleecker Street Station Restoration & Upgrade
Design: Lee Harris Pomeroy Architects with Weidlinger Associates
photo from architects
The MTA’s $94.5 m rehabilitation of the Bleecker Street Station complex, designed by Lee Harris Pomeroy Architects (LHPA) in a joint venture with Weidlinger Associates, structural engineers, introduces an uptown link between two major subway lines while returning one of the city’s oldest stations to its original glory. It includes a 300-ft extension of the Bleecker Street IRT uptown platform and a new transfer connection between it and the Broadway-Lafayette station on the IND line.
Dec 19, 2012
B2 Atlantic Yards New York
Design: SHoP
image © SHoP Architects
Groundbreaking on B2 residential tower in Brooklyn, due to complete by summer 2014. Event attended by the NYC Mayor.
Nov 14, 2012
50 United Nations Plaza – Ground-raising ceremony news
Design: Foster + Partners
image : dbox / Foster + Partners
Construction is underway on the first residential tower by Foster + Partners in the United States. Developed by Zeckendorf Development with Global Holdings, the 44-storey luxury apartment tower occupies a prestigious location within the green setting of United Nations Plaza, with views of the celebrated modernist UN Headquarters building, the East River and the Manhattan skyline.
Oct 19, 2012
425 Park Avenue – Exhibition of Four Designs
Foster + Partners wins competition for new tower
image : dbox / Foster + Partners
Four of the world’s most acclaimed architecture firms created designs for the conceptual design phase of its architectural competition for a new office tower to be constructed at 425 Park Avenue in Manhattan – Shortlisted Architects:
Foster + Partners (Lord Norman Foster)
Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners (Lord Richard Rogers)
OMA (Rem Koolhaas)
Zaha Hadid Architects
Sep 21, 2012
Barclays Center New York, Brooklyn : opening news
image © SHoP Architects
“the most anticipated sports and entertainment venue in the world and the home of the Brooklyn Nets, will celebrate its Opening Night on September 28 when Brooklyn’s own JAY Z takes the stage”.
NY Buildings, alphabetical:
9 West 57th Street
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP, Architects
Midtown skyscraper
15 Central Park West
2008
Robert A. M. Stern
up to 35 storeys
202 limestone-clad apartments
23 East 22nd Street, off Madison Square Park, Flatiron district
OMA
skyscraper image from OMA
23 East 22nd Street
40 Bond St, Noho, Manhattan
2007
Herzog de Meuron
Ian Schrager condominium – serviced apartments + townhouses
11 storeys; 23 apartments + 5 townhouses; façade includes green glass tubes
40 Mercer, Soho apartment building
2007
Jean Nouvel
15 storeys: for Andres Balazs
41 Cooper Square
Morphosis
picture from architect
41 Cooper Square
51 Astor Place – tower proposal
2008-
Maki and Associates with Adamson Associates Architects
11 & 13 storeys
Developer: Edward J. Minskoff Equities
mixed-use New York development – offices/retail
56 Leonard Street
Herzog & de Meuron
image © Herzog & de Meuron, Basel, 2008
56 Leonard Street
99 Church Street Tower, Lower Manhattan
Robert A. M. Stern Architects
image : dbox Courtesy of: Silverstein Properties
99 Church Street Tower for Silverstein Properties
100 11th Avenue – apartment block, Chelsea
2010
Atelier Jean Nouvel
111 First Street – mixed-use tower, Jersey City
2007
OMA – Office for Metropolitan Architecture
52 storeys
For The Athena Group, BLDG Management Co. and The City of Jersey
173/176 Perry Street, Greenwich Village, south Manhattan
1999-2002
Richard Meier Architect
16-storey towers facing Hudson
200 Greenwich Street, World Trade Center Tower 2
Foster + Partners
image : Foster + Partners
200 Greenwich Street
400 Park Avenue South
Christian de Portzamparc
image from architect
Manhattan skyscraper
500 Fifth Avenue Building, 500 Fifth Avenue
1931
Shreve, Lamb & Harmon Associates
212m high, rectilinear stepped Manhattan tower. From the designers of probably the most famous New York skyscraper, the Empire State building
900 Madison Avenue, Manhattan
2006-
30 storeys high
Rejected by New York Landmarks Commission – involved as it was to be built above a historic building, recalling the Hearst Tower, also by Foster & Partners in NYC
1001 Fifth Avenue Façade, 1001 Fifth Avenue
1978-80
Philip Johnson, Architect with John Burgee
Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center
Diller Scofidio + Renfro with FXFOWLE
Alice Tully Hall
Apple SoHo
2002
Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, Ronnette Riley Architect
Apple Store Fifth Avenue
2006
Bohlin Cywinski Jackson
AT&T Building, Madison Avenue
Philip Johnson, Architect with John Burgee
photograph : Isabelle Lomholt
AT&T Building
Atlantic Yards – buildings proposal, Brooklyn
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Gehry Partners LLP
Atlantic Yards Development – see also Barclays Center
Austrian Cultural Forum Tower
1998-2002
Atelier Raimund Abraham, New York
For Republic of Austria, Federal Ministry for Foreign Affairs
25ft wide and 81ft deep; 24 storeys / 278ft high
Bank of Manhattan Company Building: see The Trump Building
Barclays Center
Ellerbe Becket and SHoP Architects
image © SHoP Architects
Barclays Center
Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson
Design: Rafael Vinoly Architects
photo © Brad Feinknopf
New York College Building
Barry Diller Headquarters, Chelsea
2007
Frank Gehry
10 storeys
Baruch College Academic Complex, E.24th St to E. 25th St
2000
Kohn Pederson Fox – KPF
BLUE Residential Tower, Lower East Side
Bernard Tschumi
photo : Peter Mauss/ESTO
BLUE Residential Tower New York building
Bronx County Hall of Justice
Rafael Viñoly
photograph from architect
Bronx Building
Bronx Museum of the Arts – Expansion, Bronx
2006
Arquitectonica
Brooklyn Arts Tower
Behnisch Architekten with StudioMDA
picture from Behnisch Architekten
Brooklyn Tower
Brooklyn Bridge East River, Brooklyn / New York
John A. Roebling, designer / civil engineer
photo © Tim Collins
Brooklyn Bridge
Brooklyn Children’s Museum
Design: Rafael Vinoly Architects
image from architects
Brooklyn Children’s Museum
Brooklyn College – West Quad
Design: Rafael Vinoly Architects
picture from architect
Brooklyn College Building
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Location: New York City, NY, USA
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NYC Architectural Designs
Beauty of New York : external link
American Architecture outside Manhattan – USA Buildings, scroll to New York state
Cornell University School of Architecture, NY, design by OMA
RIBA Awards 2007 : Hearst Building wins a RIBA International Award 2007.
Architecture Design
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