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Bookish Living: Municipal Art Society Proposes Turning Libraries into Apartments

If you  aren’t comfortable living in a church, that’s fine. But what about a library?

The Municipal Arts Society is leading the conversation on converting public libraries into apartment buildings, the Real Deal reports. President Vin Cipolla noted that the change in technology (read: Kindles and iPads) will lead to under-used, or even unused, library spaces. Read More

Mom and the Folks at Coney Island Forum

Get on the bus.

That’s the message Economic Development Corporation head Seth Pinsky had for attendees of a panel on Coney Island at the Municipal Art Society on Wednesday night.

“If you really want to do something to help Coney Island, the only viable option that’s on the table right now is Read More

City Hall Protest Calls for Landmarks Funding

Lost in the dust-cloud hovering above today’s Upper East Side crane collapse was this morning’s protest on the steps of City Hall, during which preservationists asked the city to restore $300,000 in funding to the Landmarks Preservation Commission.

That commission is responsible for designating, and thereby protecting from alteration, city landmarks and landmarked districts. Read More

Architecture Enthusiasts Crowd Gehry Buiding for MAS Awards

Livable-city activists celebrated the latest, coolest additions to the city’s urban landscape on Thursday inside the stark white interior of Frank Gehry’s first building in New York City, the IAC headquarters on 11th Avenue.

The occasion was the Municipal Art Society’s 2008 MASterwork Awards, which, according to the program, “honor the year’s top projects Read More

Preservationists Laud Floating Pool, Times Building, Among Other Places

The Municipal Art Society hath spoken.

More precisely, the organization’s MASterwork Awards Committee — with hotshots like Jerry Speyer (Tishman Speyer), John Belle ( Beyer Blinder Belle Architects & Planners), Rick Bell (AIA New York Chapter), Gregg Pasquarelli (SHoP Architects), and Judith Saltzman, (Li/Saltzman Architects) — hath spoken, selecting the best examples Read More