Cool contemporary buildings in New York City


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Buildings are listed (roughly) geographically from North to South.

Rose Center by Polshek (81st st)


Lincoln Center/ Julliard by Diller Scofidio Renfro (66/broadway)


The Guggenheim Museum by Frank Lloyd Wright (1071 5th ave)

The Whitney Museum by Marcel Breuer (madison and 75th)

Museum of arts and design by Allied Works (columbus circle)

Time Warner Center by SOM (Columbus Circle)

hearst tower by Norman Foster (57/8th)



TKTS Booth by Perkins Eastman


Austrian Cultural Forum by RAIMUND ABRAHAM (11 e 52nd st)

morgan library by Renzo Piano (225 madison ave)


apple store (5th ave)

lever house SOM (390 park ave)



new york times building by Renzo Piano (muji is here)

Bank of America Tower by KPF (1 Bryant Park)

grand central station

Apple Store Grand Central

india mission to un by CHARLES CORREA (235 e 43rd st)


US Mission to the UN by Gwathmey Siegel

un headquarters by Le Corbusier et al

louis vuitton by JUN AOKI (1 e 57th st)

armani 5th ave by FUKSAS (717 5th ave)

lvmh tower by PORTMANZAC (19 e 57th st)

seagram building Mies van der Rohe (390 park ave)

MOMA by Taniguchi

one madison park by CetraRuddy (22 East 23rd Street)

Chrysler Building

Empire State Building

American Folk Art Museum by Williams / Tsien

javits convention center by IM PEI


Metal Shutter Houses SHIGERU BAN (524 West 19th Street)


100 11th Ave by Jean Nouvel





high line part 1 & 2 FIELD OPERATIONS


IAC Building by Frank Gehry

standard hotel by POLSHEK (above the high line)

Dream Downtown Hotel by Handel Architects

HL23 by Neil Denari

Blue Tower by Bernard Tschumi

One Jackson Square by KPF

AT&T Building by Phillip Johnson

wtc memorial site (x, Snohetta)

1 World Trade Center by SOM

Beekman Tower by Frank Gehry
Zuccotti Park by Cooper, Robertson & Partners

skyscraper museum (29 battery park)

NYU Department of Philosophy by Steven Holl

290 mulberry st by SHOP



40 bond street by H&dM (40 bond st)


cooper union by MORPHOSIS

cooper square hotel

allessi by ASYMTOTE

Foster + SANAA

westwood gallery by Norman Foster

new museum by SANAA

40 mercer by NOUVEL

storefront of art and architecture by STEVEN HOLL

Museum of Chinese in America by Maya Lin


prada flagship by OMA (575 broadway)

tribeca Issey Miyake by GEHRY

Wall Street rotating bollards

new amsterdam pavilion by UN STUDIO (battery park). (see post on pavilions by UNStudio)
Images by Jonathan Choe