How New York’s department stores are fighting back against e-commerce
As classic retailers up the ante and new arrivals come to Manhattan’s famous shopping areas , what does the superstore of the future look like?
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Thomas Heatherwick plans $170m hovering miracle island for New York
The designer has dreamed up a Disneyfied island on stilts that boasts woodland, performance spaces and places to ‘wander and wonder’. But is this fairytale of urban planning too good to be true?
Oscar de la Renta obituary
Designer trusted by generations of stars, from Jackie Kennedy to Amal Alamuddin
432 Park Avenue is the highest rooftop in New York City and the tallest residential building in Western hemisphere
At 1,396 feet, 432 Park Avenue is the tallest residential building in the Western Hemisphere. New York celebrated the topping out of a world-class project that has reshaped the New York City skyline. The iconic 432 Park Avenue has risen and taken its place among and above the icons of the Manhattan skyline, surpassing the Empire … Read more
Surface to Structure origami exhibition – in pictures
Surface to Structure: Folded Forms is a New York exhibition of origami artwork that brings together the work of 88 artists from five continents
New York’s MoMA to digitise hundreds of Andy Warhol films
Hundreds of Warhol’s films will be made available to the public in a partnership between the Andy Warhol Museum and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, with some of them never seen before