Articles by Bridget Cogley

Snøhetta has been granted planning permission for an indoor garden at New York’s 550 Madison, which forms part of its overhaul of the postmodern tower. Snøhetta’s proposal for the indoor public garden on the ground floor of the 37-storey office building was approved by the New York City Planning Commission this week. The garden is

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Work is set to start again on Santiago Calatrava’s Greek Orthodox church in Downtown Manhattan, over two years after it was halted because the archdiocese failed to pay construction fees. New York governor Andrew Cuomo announced that construction would resume soon on the Saint Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church and National Shrine at the World Trade

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Princeton University is suing Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects over the school’s Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, claiming the building process was careless and took too long. The New York firm and Texas sub-consultants Jacobs Entities of Jacobs Engineering Group are both being sued for work done on the research institute, which was

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New York has passed a bill that updates the city’s building code with requirements to make new glass structures safer for migratory birds. New York City Council’s bill requires the surface of new glass buildings rising 75 feet (23 metres) or more – approximately seven storeys – to be patterned to make them more visible

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