Articles by India Block

As cities become more cycling-friendly it’s important not to forget about suburbia, says Aaron Betsky, as he shares what archicts and urban planners could learn from a cycle through the suburbs on World Bicycle Day. Bicycles are making our cities better, but what about our suburbs? After a brief blip last decades, our cities are

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American architecture firm Kohn Pedersen Fox has unveiled plans for 343 Madison Avenue, a supertall skyscraper that will be built near Grand Central Terminal in New York. Developer Boston Properties selected Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF) to build the 1,050-foot-high (320 metres) office building, which will be located on the site of the former headquarters of

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The elevated topography of Little Island was designed to create a sense of escape from Manhattan, according to designer Thomas Heatherwick in this interview with Dezeen. Designed in partnership with global engineering firm Arup and landscape architects MNLA, Little Island rests on 132 concrete columns over the Hudson River near New York City’s Meatpacking District. It opened

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Danish architecture studio EFFEKT has planted hundreds of pine seedlings around seven architectural models at the Venice Architecture Biennale using a hydroponics system that’s remote-controlled from Copenhagen. The installation is called Eco to Ego and responds to the biennale’s theme, a question posed by the Venice Architecture Biennale’s 2021 curator Hashim Sarkis: How will we

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