Smyth Hotel

TriBeCa NYC's youngest contender in modern luxury hotel scene

Just under a year old, the latest addition to Thompson Hotel‘s family, the Smyth offers the same casual sophistication they are known for with a custom-tailored interior suited to its TriBeCa location with understated wine-toned rooms, mini-bars stocked with Dean & Deluca gourmet snacks and incredible BBG architecture. Upon entering the hotel, guests pass through the lobby designed by Yabu Pushelberg down a dimly lit …

Painting Toward Architecture

Renowned architectural historian Henry-Russell Hitchcock's astute look at how abstract art influenced modern architecture

One of the greatest historians of American architecture, Henry-Russell Hitchcock helped shape the way we consider the medium today. An advocate of architecture as art over absolute function, Hitchcock wrote numerous books on the subject of architectural style. We recently happened upon the 1948 edition of “

OpenBuildings

A new crowd-sourced portal to architecture's greatest achievements and newest additions

The just-launched OpenBuildings online database organizes architecture’s finest examples from around the globe in an effort to share info and highlight stunning developments. Multiple methods of navigating the buildings—as a grid, list, slideshow or Google Maps overlay—allow for individualized browsing of the user-driven site, and a forthcoming iPhone app will make it easy to tour architecture on-the-go. Already 2,000 buildings strong, co-founder Tom Mallory hopes …