Whitney Unveils New Satellite at the High Line
05.01.08
Community Board 2 seems impressed with Renzo Piano’s museum proposal


Courtesy Whitney Museum

Q&A: LA City Planning Commissioner
Jane Ellison Usher
05.01.08


courtesy LACVB

It Gets Worse
04.24.08
AIA Billings Index hits lowest level ever, portends recession

Private Greens
04.23.08
Los Angeles takes going green to the private sector

Charles Warren Callister, 1917–2008
04.23.08


Charles Callister

Re-Rezoning 125th Street
04.15.08
Councilmember secures major concessions to city plan

Dead End
04.07.08
Mayor’s congestion pricing plan defeated by Assembly Dems

Food and the City
They come from different sides of the business, but restaurateur Danny Meyer and architect David Rockwell both know a thing or two about what makes a restaurant work, from the straightforward challenges of circulation, lighting, and seating planning to the more evanescent issue of creating atmosphere. But they also understand that in a city like New York, a restaurant can have a role that goes beyond dinner. AN sat down with the two at gramercy tavern as they talked about design, public space, and the give-and-take between a restaurant and its neighborhood.
By Anne Guiney and Julie V. Iovine. Photograph by Adam Friedberg

Restaurant Row
Be it low-budget noodle shop or high-gloss dining destination, restaurants are a classic proving ground for architectural experiment and whimsy, drama and desire. The latest crop of chow houses finds this tradition in full flavor—from rustic-chic to sumptuous quartz slabs, anything goes so long as all five senses are firing. In that spirit, here are new restaurants from across the nation and beyond, revealing that whip-smart design is still every match for the fiercest culinary chops. Dig in. Produced by Jeff Byles with contributions from Alan G. Brake, Matt Chaban, Julie V. Iovine, and Aaron Seward.

The Storytellers
Guided by an abiding curiosity about the past lives of buildings, objects, and neighborhoods, the partners of the design and concept firm AvroKo have developed a distinct visual language for some of New York’s most popular restaurants. Their aesthetic may have been duplicated, but their narrative-based approach makes it hard to match. By Eva Hagberg

Changing Tastes
What and where a neighborhood eats can reveal a lot about it and is a reliable barometer of change. Brooklyn’s Bushwick is the latest in a long series of New York neighborhoods where new restaurants signal that the process of gentrification is well underway. By Angela Starita Photographs by Edwin Montoya

Tinkering with History
When it comes to restoring midcentury masterpieces, it’s sometimes hard to know what’s best to leave alone—the house or the house owner. Kimberly Stevens talks to both purists and pragmatists.



Joshua White

Paseo Miramar Photos