Yesterday we posted a top 10 list of NYC's ugliest buildings according to the AIA Guide to New York City. However, these are not the opinions of AIANY, they are only the opinions of the guide's authors. AIANY Communications Director Emily Nemens must be getting death threats from Renzo Piano, because we've gotten several panicked messages today regarding this clarification. She explains: "[We] are proud of our history with this book (the first edition was published by the chapter in 1967), but it is an independent publication now, which we are happy to help publicize because of its attention to design quality." more ›

The AIA Guide to New York City is back to bullying what they dub the city's ugliest structures, and here's a visual guide of the worst of the worst! Last year when a similar discussion arose, an architectural critic declared, “The ugliest buildings are the anonymous ones. Even if an experimental, high-profile building doesn’t quite deliver, at least the architect is trying something. A boring building is a warehouse in the middle of New Jersey.” But AIA's list seems to be a mixture of both... [via the Daily News] more ›

The great porous globe that has suddenly landed among the ivy and trees of verdant LaGuardia Place turns out to be a structural model for a radical type of affordable, prefabricated housing. This single eye-catching installation -- Buckminster Fuller's Fly's Eye Dome -- marks the opening of a a week of Buckminster Fuller celebrations in NYC. more ›

The American Institute of Architects is looking to supplant the idea of replacing the Gowanus Expressway with a tunnel, and instead proposes a suspended highway and formation of a Gowanus Greenway. In 2006, the Dept. of Transportation gave a green light to a $12.8 billion proposal to build a 3.5 mile, seven lane tunnel underneath the Brooklyn Waterfront and then destroying the elevated highway. The plan for a Gowanus Tunnel appears to be in perpetual stall though, and would take approximately 15 years to finish. more ›