The New York Skyline Is Bursting With Iconic Buildings

Brooklyn’s first super-tall is hexagonal in shape, and clad in stone, bronze, and stainless steel where it ascends from the bank roof. The original banking room interior was preserved and on its roof, residents can take a swim in the three new pools and spas that abut the historic dome.

ASU’s under-construction McCain library aims to be civic commons rather than quiet archive

The Jan. 29 event marked the groundbreaking for the John S. McCain III Library and Museum, a project years in the making and one rooted as much in purpose as in memory.

The Best of the New New York Architecture

Two other supertalls, both by SHoP, puncture the atmosphere without disdaining the block. Both 111 West 57th Street, the world’s skinniest skyscraper, and 9 DeKalb Avenue, a.k.a. Brooklyn Tower, grow out of the early-20th-century landmarks at their feet, projecting their deluxe graciousness into the sky.

Warren & Wetmore’s 1925 Steinway Hall presides over 57th Street, a limestone memory of classical music’s glory days, and SHoP’s vertical addition draws out its poise, its rhythm, and its showy ease. Up at the top, the crown falls away, feathering to nothing, like a long pianissimo trill, a feat of attention-getting lightness. This is a huge accomplishment, offering a way out of the battle between contextualism and contrast.

Rhijnhaven Rotterdam: How Urban Development Can Succeed

The 220-meter-high Codrico Tower, designed by SHoP Architects, with its striking projections and recesses, also adheres to an appearance reminiscent of the Rotterdam port expansion era.

Atlassian Central Set to Complete in 2026

In Australia, SHoP Architects and BVN will complete Atlassian’s headquarters—the world’s tallest hybrid timber building. At a height of 180 meters, the office building will have an internal timber structure surrounded by an envelope of steel and glass.

Stunning $1.5B Hudson’s Project Fills Major Gap

There was a conspicuous gap in the center of downtown Detroit for a quarter century. That long, empty block along Woodward was where the massive J.L. Hudson department store building once stood, before its 1998 demolition by implosion. The gap its implosion left behind was also a psychological one for some Detroiters who were old enough to remember shopping at the old Hudson’s before it closed in 1983 after more than 90 years of business.

World’s Tallest Hybrid Timber Tower Rises in Sydney

Conceptualized around the Habitat organization, the design of the 39-story tower breaks down into smaller, human-centric neighborhoods. The tower is divided into seven distinct habitats, each spanning four stories. Each habitat contains three mass-timber-framed office floors and one mega floor. This vertical strategy allows for flexible interiors and interconnected zones, fostering collaborative workspaces. The structure utilizes glued laminated timber (GLT) beams and columns, combined with cross-laminated timber (CLT) floor slabs, to create a warm, biophilic environment. Park spaces are integrated within each habitat system, allowing employees direct access to fresh air and planted gardens at every level. This layout utilizes an innovative operable facade, enabling large areas of each floor to function without mechanical cooling during suitable weather conditions.

Habitat is an LA Story to Watch in 2026

The latest large project next to La Cienega/Jefferson Station, Lendlease’s Habitat development, is wrapping up construction as we speak. The complex—the first L.A. project for SHoP Architects—includes a 12-story, 260-unit apartment tower, accompanied by a 243,000-square-foot office building and commercial space.

SHoP Completes FIT Building with “Origami-like Folded Metal Panels”

US studio SHoP Architects has completed an academic building for the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City that contains a subterranean sewing lab viewable from the street and a backside atrium that links to a neighbouring building. At 10 storeys high, the Joyce F Brown Academic Building is named after the school’s acting president and contains 24 classrooms, an auditorium, a large knitting lab, a mezzanine common area and eventually, the president’s office on the top floor. “From the outset of the project, we wanted to highlight what was happening at FIT and make it visible for the first time to the broader fashion district,” said SHoP Architects founding principal Bill Sharples.

FIT Honors Dr. Joyce F. Brown With Its First New Academic Building in Nearly 50 Years

On Thursday, the Fashion Institute of Technology marked a defining moment with the opening of the Joyce F. Brown Academic Building, its first new academic facility in nearly 50 years. Named after FIT’s departing president and trailblazer, Dr. Joyce F. Brown, the structure stands as a testament to her influence on creative education.