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close-up of top of Heckscher Building
Heavy Lies the Crown

Landmarks Preservation Commission designates the Heckscher Building, a French Renaissance tower by Warren & Wetmore from 1922

History in the Making

Preservation stories that had AN editors buzzing in 2023

Good News

Modernist structures by Paul Rudolph and Ulrich Franzen are New York City’s newest landmarks

Moderne

New York City’s Landmark Preservation Commission streamlines changes for environmental upgrades and other approval processes

19 Inches

LPC says fashion designer Tom Ford can’t change the doorway to his Paul Rudolph–designed home on the Upper East Side

Vale of Cashmere

A proposed Prospect Park development could eliminate important LGBT historic site, advocates say

Check In

A plan for McGraw-Hill building to go partially residential prompts calls for its original lobby design to be brought back

rendering of a colorful playground
Friday Fun

Daily digest: Debt-burdened architects flee the profession, historic gay bar is landmarked, and more news

an automated transit system on an elevated track
Read This (And Then Get to the Polls)

Daily digest: RIOS announces launch of London office, fare collection resumes on the Detroit People Mover, and more

archival photo of rowhomes in south brooklyn
Dive Right In

New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission launches free digital archive of designation photos

detail view of a rainbow flag
Pride Edition

Daily digest: Housing development for LGBTQ seniors breaks ground in Boston, multiple gay bars face demolition in Austin, and more

Restored facade of the Morgan Library
An Overdue Restoration

Morgan Library facade and garden are restored for the first time in 115 years

rendering of a fluted observation platform
Rock Steady

Top of the Rock “skylift” attraction gets green light from Landmarks Preservation Commission

a mural on the side of a building in the Gansevoort Market Historic District
Enthusiastic Thumbs Up

The Whitney Museum’s Gansevoort Market Historic District art program gets another renewal

Rendering of the gansevoort market with a tower
Face-Off

Nine landmarked rowhouses will be partially demolished for BKSK’s Gansevoort Market tower

a historic building wrapped in scaffolding, grand prospect hall
Dreams, Dashed

Bid to landmark Brooklyn’s demolition-bound Grand Prospect Hall denied by the LPC

The art moderne lobby of the former McGraw Hill building with green walls and ceiling and spiraling art deco lights
Lobbying Efforts

New York State Supreme Court rejects plea to reinstall McGraw-Hill lobby

Exterior photo of a glassy modern venue floating over the street, lever house
Pull The Lever

Seven decades after designing Lever House, SOM is overseeing its restoration

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