Our hearts, rather than our feet, have been burning over the fate of the iconic Coney Island boardwalk. Sure, it’s rickety and splinter-ridden, but a Concretewalk is just wrong. The city has agreed to keep the concrete to a bare minimum, which is still too much, but now it looks like there is no hope for any wood on the boardwalk. Read More
We already told you more than you would ever want to know about the renovations of a dilapidated Lower East Side parking garage. But what about the rest of this year’s Public Design Awards winners, handed out for their 29th year by the Public Design Commission.
Here are the other 11, some of them familiar favorites—Steven Holl’s Hunters Point Library, the new Museum of the Moving Image, where the awards were held last Monday—and some that are new, including a DOT refueling station in Queens and a rooftop pavilion for the Brooklyn Children’s Museum. Read More
