Architecture
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!
Vintage Photos: Remnants of the 1964 New York World’s Fair
The 1939 World’s Fair in New York City may have the longer legacy in our collective memory, with its
Haunted Rionda Ruins in New Jersey’s Northern Valley
Looking north from the George Washington Bridge to New Jersey, it takes a lot of imagination to envision storybook manors
Weekly Map: Manhattan Takes a Vacation to Boston, Chicago and Los Angeles
Manhattan visits Chicago It’s Fourth of July weekend and Manhattanites are fleeing the city in search peace and quiet,
What’s In the Future for Rapidly Urbanizing Dar es Salaam in Tanzania?
Beautifully sited on the curving shore of the Indian Ocean in Tanzania, Dar es Salaam sits on ancient trade routes
Daily What?! Lost Plaque at the Battle of Golden Hill, First Battle of the American Revolution
In our recent post about plaques in New York City that are lost or just plain wrong, we revealed one
Daily What?! The Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s Gold Vault
Image via the New York Fed Did you know that the Federal Reserve Bank of New York has a gold
The Abandoned Parisian Suburb of Goussainville-Vieux Pays
Goussainville-Vieux Pays was once a farming village north of central Paris but it’s now a ghost town. It
Explore NYC with Moses Gates and Rembert Browne with #MyNYC and Google Glass
With forty hours to go in our IndieGogo project, #MyNYC, to use Google Glass to tell the stories of New
The Capuchin Crypt: A Monument of Human Bones and Corpses in Rome
Photo by Ellen Ryan Of all the places you might find the Capuchin crypt, the Via Veneto in Rome seems
Queensbridge, NYC: Inside America’s Largest Public Housing Project
We recently took a Municipal Art Society tour of Queensbridge, America’s largest operating public housing project, located in West
NYC Financial District’s Secret Plaza: The Elevated Acre at 55 Water Street
Tucked between two office buildings at 55 Water Street is a hard-to-find escalator which whisks you up to
Catacomb Exploration is Part of Initiation at the University L’Ecole des Mines in Paris
Painting by the class of 2007 and 2008 at L’Ecole des Mines in Paris in the catacombs. Source. L’