Roosevelt Island’s Radical Plan for a Different New York

A 1969 plan by Philip Johnson and John Burgee organized island life around pedestrians, mixed-income housing, compact streets, and generous public space.

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How Mid-Century Design Reshaped New York Real Estate

New York’s postwar housing took form in glass-walled apartments, limited-equity cooperatives, garden complexes, and wooded enclaves of architect-designed houses.

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The Concrete Buildings That Changed New York

Libraries, museums, universities, and government buildings made concrete a forceful civic language—and gave New York some of its most disputed architecture.

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Five New York Neighborhoods Built for Modern Life

These five neighborhoods placed postwar ideas about density, domestic life, landscape, and shared space into distinctly New York forms.

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A Statewide Laboratory for American Modernism

From Manhattan’s corporate towers to Westchester’s wooded residential enclaves, New York contains an extraordinary cross-section of postwar modernism. Its surviving architecture encompasses private homes, cooperative communities, museums, transportation terminals, civic complexes, office towers, and structures created for the 1964–1965 World’s Fair.

MID-CENTURY REAL ESTATE, RESTORATION, DESIGN + RENOVATION

Roosevelt Island’s Radical Plan for a Different New York

How Mid-Century Design Reshaped New York Real Estate

The Concrete Buildings That Changed New York

Five New York Neighborhoods Built for Modern Life

Ghislaine Viñas Interior Design

AD:ROIT Architecture

Delia Kenza Interiors