12 Time Capsules Discovered in NYC
From the Westinghouse Time Capsules to one of the oldest known, these artifacts help us to understand what the city was like in the past.
Untapped New York was started in 2010 by a then student at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP), where she is now a professor. We love architecture and believe there is no better place to celebrate it than NYC!
Up on 134th Street and Riverside Drive is a curious building, reminiscent of a Greek temple, which houses a Manhattan
Photo by Jon Proctor via Wikimedia Commons Our piece on the preservation of the Worldport Pan-Am Terminal at JFK
There has been an uptick in visitors to the neighborhoods of southeast Los Angeles, an industrial area known for its
A rendering of The Hills. Source: West 8. A series of recycled hills are rising on Governors Island. Last Friday,
Wall Street, today a synonym for power and money, has withstood its share of chaos–market crashes, bombings, recessions, Occupy
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This open, sculptural, naturally-lit staircase at Poets House in Battery Park City is exactly the type that Mayor Bloomberg
The space of Wright’s former showroom as of today. It will soon become a TD Bank. In April of
As recently as the late 90’s, the neighborhood around the High Line was once gritty, raw, and somewhat dangerous,
This Saturday, August 3rd, Park Avenue and Lafayette St. will once more fill up with thousands of cyclists, joggers and
If you found out that the building you lived or worked in was once an asylum, would you move out?
The Harvest Dome, a floating installation of 500 discarded storm-snapped umbrellas and 128 two-liter soda bottles, will be
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