Archivist Rick Prelinger’s Filmic Glimpse of Demolished New York

A captivating urban history lesson crafted from old home movies and even “process plates” from commercial films, “Lost Landscapes of New York” is an archivist’s vision of a demolished NYC. Rick Prelinger has assembled a filmic piece that explores the complexity of NYC’s developments—revealing many well-known areas before their contemporary development. From neighborhood street views in Harlem and Williamsburg to a ride through Grand Central …

Rockefeller Center Plaza’s Radical Redesign

Italian architects Citterio-Viel & Partners have been tasked with the future of one of NYC’s best-known landmarks: Rockefeller Center Plaza. A rendering has been revealed, showing the planned redesign. It will add 35,000 square feet of retail space and stairwells into the subterranean space. Learn more at Architectural Digest, where they probe whether it “will take away any of the fame or glitz of the …

COS + Snarkitecture’s Huge Marble Run in Seoul

Suspended from the ceiling of Seoul’s Gana Art Gallery is COS and Snarkitecture’s latest collaboration: a huge, lilac-colored marble run. The installation (titled “Loop”) has four tracks on which every five seconds, a glass marble is released and travels the run—only to be dropped into a pile of marbles in another room. Snarkitecture co-founder Daniel Arsham says, “While we wanted the design to be playful, …