Hudson Yards. Max Touhey
After several ho-hum years in which it seemed like nothing all that interesting happened in the world of New York City architecture, 2019 was very busy: New buildings debuted, long-awaited renovations wrapped up, and anentire neighborhood materialized from nothing on Manhattan’s west side.
Was it a good year? There were certainly some triumphs. Brooklyn gained a massive new oasis in Shirley Chisholm Park, and the final section of the High Line opened just in time for the elevated park’s 10th anniversary. Eero Saarinen’s gorgeous TWA Terminal is once again open to the public, and looking better than ever. MoMA is back, and positively enormous. But there were misfires; you need only look at the gargantuan collection of skyscrapers at Hudson Yards, which has cemented its status as a playground for New York’s new Gilded Age, for proof.
Here now, the best (and some of the worst) of New York’s new architecture—reveals, makeovers, and parks included—of 2019.
For nearly a century (the institution turned 90 in 2019), the Museum of Modern Art has been tinkering with the spaces that it inhabits, and this fall, it unveiled its most ambitious revamp yet. The renovation of its 53rd Street building, overseen by Diller Scofidio + Renfro and Gensler, added more than 40,000 square feet of fresh galleries, and sought to knit together many disparate spaces—the new galleries, the pieces of the […]
