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, …

A New High (Note) at the Met Opera

In 137 years, NYC’s The Metropolitan Opera has played host to many firsts. And yet, only with their new opera production, Thomas Adès’ “The Exterminating Angel,” has the venue heard an A above high note. Soprano Audrey Luna delivers the masterful moment, which most likely will go unnoticed by many. As the New York Times points out, “a high A—a combination of genetic gifts, rigorous …