Frank Gehry's first building in NYC is winding down to its opening day. The IAC head headquarters reminds us of flowing sails in the middle of the Atlantic. Genhry seems to be holding back in his design of the building, as he had forgotten his deconstructed, curvilinear forms. Although his younger days are over and his designs seem to cater to higher end clients, his spirit of uncertainty and last minute resolutions are prevalent in the building.

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The long anticipated Second Avenue subway line has hit more bumps along the road. It has been released that the project will have an increased budget forecast due to the increase of New York City real estate prices. The revised estimate of the project will be around $350 million if completed on schedule. THE MTA must also purchase five Upper East Side buildings to be removed for utilities and station entrances. The first phase of the project will be built from 96th Street to 63rd.

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Far East Organization, Singapore’s largest private development company, has commissioned the Office for Metropolitan Architecture for OMA’s first architectural project in Singapore – a 36-story residential high-rise.

The 153 meter tall tower will be located at the intersection of Scotts Road and Cairnhill Road, in close proximity to Orchard Road, Singapore’s famous shopping and lifestyle street.

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In Tejon Valley, developers are playing an enigmatic game of Sim City. There is 270,000 acres, 60 miles north of Los Angeles, that the developers have allocated to create into a thriving community. Population increases have created overbearing pressures on communities near LA, leading to higher real estate prices. LA has tried to mitigate these problems by creating a denser downtown and have re-invited their citizens to inhabit LA. Tejon Valley is another solution, which was and is popular in California; sprawl out and build unclaimed land. A good example of this is Irvine, CA, which has currently become a self sustainable community in which workers enter the neighborhood to work and return to outer ring neighborhoods where they reside. Tejon Valley will take about 20+ years to build and most of the developers involved in the project will not even see the fruition of their work.

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