New York seeks "micro-units" to solve housing shortage
Dezeen Wire: New York mayor Michael Bloomberg has launched a competition to design "micro-units" to help solve the shortage of of small apartments in Manhattan. More
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Columbia University Medical Building by Diller Scofidio + Renfro
Architects Diller Scofidio + Renfro have proposed a medical education centre at New York's Columbia University that appears to have had its skin peeled away from its skeleton. More
Wendy by HWKN
Here are the first official photographs of Wendy, the giant blue spiky air-cleaning sculpture that has been installed in the courtyard of the P.S.1 Contemporary Art Centre in New York (+ slideshow). More
Signature Center by Frank Gehry
Slideshow: architect Frank Gehry has inserted a theatre into the base of tower in New York City (photographs by James Ewing/OTTO). More
OWEN by Tacklebox
Twenty-five thousand brown paper lunch bags line the wall and ceiling of OWEN, a new fashion boutique in New York's Meatpacking District by Jeremy Barbour of Brooklyn architects Tacklebox. More
House of Shoes by Shigeru Ban and Dean Maltz
Japanese architect Shigeru Ban has completed a New York store for footwear brand Camper where all the shoes are hidden away. More
Logan Offices by SO-IL
Figures appear as ghostly silhouettes behind the translucent white fabric that partitions these New York offices by architects SO-IL. More
Designer arrested for "planting false bombs" in New York
Dezeen Wire: Japanese designer Takeshi Miyakawa has been accused of planting false bombs and arrested while installing his work in a New York street during the International Contemporary Furniture Fair. More
Frieze Art Fair NYC by SO-IL
The first New York Frieze Art Fair took place last weekend inside a 450 metre-long snaking white tent designed by Brooklyn architects SO-IL. More
Marina Abramović Institute by OMA
Architects OMA have unveiled plans to convert a former theatre in Upstate New York into a performance institute commissioned by Serbian artist Marina Abramovic. More
Dream Downtown Hotel by Handel Architects
American firm Handel Architects have completed a New York hotel with porthole windows that give it an uncanny resemblance to children's game Connect Four. More
"Design schools may be the real engines of New York City’s innovation economy"
Dezeen Wire: a report by Manhattan think tank Center for an Urban Future has found that design schools are catalysts for entrepreneurship and economic growth in New York City. More
Wendy by HWKN
Architects HWKN have won this year’s MoMA/P.S.1 Young Architects Program competition and will install a giant spiky structure that cleans the air in the courtyard of the P.S.1 Contemporary Art Centre in New York. More
Yotel New York by Softroom and Rockwell Group
Hotel brand Yotel have opened a flagship branch in New York's Times Square, where visitors check in at computerised kiosks while their luggage is stored or retrieved by a giant robotic arm. More
New York's September 11 museum delayed
Dezeen Wire: the opening of the September 11 museum in New York, which is scheduled for September 2012, is under threat due to an ongoing dispute over unexpected costs – The Washington PostThe museum is part of a memorial to the victims of the 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centre being developed by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, who say that they are owed $156 million by mayor Michael Bloomberg's National September 11 Memorial & Museum foundation. The row had been kept quiet over fears it could overshadow the 10th anniversary of the attacks but has now led to the suspension of construction contracts which could delay the completion of the museum.
See our previous story on the opening of the National September 11 Memorial, an animation of the memorial fountains and architecture critic Rowan Moore's examination of the infighting that has plagued the redevelopment of the World Trade Centre site.
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Richard Rogers's New York skyscraper won't get off the ground
Dezeen Wire: plans for a 40-storey tower designed by British architect Richard Rogers to sit on top of the Port Authority Bus Terminal in New York have been shelved following the Chinese backer's decision to pull out – The New York TimesSee a skyscraper in London completed by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners earlier this year.
Milstein Hall by OMA
OMA have completed a new building for the school of architecture at Cornell University in New York. More
Pritzker Prize winner's plan for U.N. development back on track
Dezeen Wire: a tower on the site of the United Nations' campus in New York by Pritzker Prize winning architect Fumihiko Maki that has been on hold since 2004 has been given the green light to continue development - The New York ObserverMaki's proposal for a long, narrow 35-storey tower on the same site as buildings by Oscar Niemeyer and Le Corbusier was stalled by political arguments between the U.N. and the City of New York. The design will now need to undergo alterations ahead of a planning application and is due to break ground in 2013.
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High Line appoints new curator to bring art to New York landmark
Dezeen Wire: Friends of the High Line has announced that curator Cecilia Alemani is to be placed in charge of the public art programme for the popular High Line urban park in New York. More 
Campbell Sports Centre by Steven Holl Architects
Construction has started on a new sports centre by architect Steven Holl for Columbia University in New York. More