A walk through SoHo, home to the world’s greatest trove of cast-iron buildings. We consider the district’s original architecture as well as new Landmarks Commission-approved additions.

Reservations required. Tour of the Woolworth Building lobby, closed to the public for more than a decade and now open again. The tour includes a detailed look at the building’s unmatched polychromatic terra-cotta exterior, and an in-depth exploration of the lobby and its wealth of ornament, including hidden corners and staircases — plus a special visit to the mezzanine level for an up-close view of its extraordinary mosaic ceiling.

Reservations required. Tour of the Woolworth Building lobby, closed to the public for more than a decade and now open again. The tour includes a detailed look at the building’s unmatched polychromatic terra-cotta exterior, and an in-depth exploration of the lobby and its wealth of ornament, including hidden corners and staircases — plus a special visit to the mezzanine level for an up-close view of its extraordinary mosaic ceiling.

This year, the Art Deco Society of New York is partnering with the Municipal Art Society to lead a “Jane’s Walk” event devoted to Art Deco architecture.

High up on a hill, its streets lined with modest but attractive six-story Art Deco apartment houses, Washington Heights has more in common with West Bronx neighborhoods just across the Harlem River than with the rest of Manhattan. The tour includes visits to two interiors: the sanctuary of the Hebrew Tabernacle, and the lobby of 250 Cabrini Boulevard, one of the two Boak & Paris buildings. (Please note: space is limited.)

Landmark West! is sponsoring a two-part series exploring the Art Deco Architecture of the Upper West Side. For more information and to register, click here.

Tour of the 1920s Astoria Center of Israel (architect Louis Allen Abramson) with 1929 Art Deco murals by Louis Pierre Rigal – who exhibited works at the 1925 Paris Exposition from which Art Deco takes its name. Part of the NY Landmarks Conservancy’s Sacred Sites Open House Weekend.

Landmark West! is sponsoring a two-part series exploring the Art Deco Architecture of the Upper West Side. For more information and to register, click here.

Reservations required. Tour of the Woolworth Building lobby, closed to the public for more than a decade and now open again. The tour includes a detailed look at the building’s unmatched polychromatic terra-cotta exterior, and an in-depth exploration of the lobby and its wealth of ornament, including hidden corners and staircases — plus a special visit to the mezzanine level for an up-close view of its extraordinary mosaic ceiling.

Reservations required. Tour of the Woolworth Building lobby, closed to the public for more than a decade and now open again. The tour includes a detailed look at the building’s unmatched polychromatic terra-cotta exterior, and an in-depth exploration of the lobby and its wealth of ornament, including hidden corners and staircases — plus a special visit to the mezzanine level for an up-close view of its extraordinary mosaic ceiling.

A panel discussion on the Empire State Building. Panelists include three well-known professionals with strong connections to the building: Frank Prial, Tony Robins, and John Tauranac, with moderator Tony Hiss.

Lecture on the New York City saga of “world’s tallest buildings,” followed by a visit to the Woolworth Building accompanied by its architect’s great-granddaughter.

Reservations required. Tour of the Woolworth Building lobby, closed to the public for more than a decade and now open again. The tour includes a detailed look at the building’s unmatched polychromatic terra-cotta exterior, and an in-depth exploration of the lobby and its wealth of ornament, including hidden corners and staircases — plus a special visit to the mezzanine level for an up-close view of its extraordinary mosaic ceiling.

In Chicago: Lecture covering the great skyscrapers of architects Raymond Hood, William Van Alen, Ely Jacques Kahn, and Ralph Walker, then tracing the adaptation of this “skyscraper style” through apartment buildings on the Bronx’s Grand Concourse, airport terminals at LaGuardia, the Central Park West residential skyline, automated midtown parking garages, diners, hotels, department stores, banks and theaters.

ARCHS4365: Summer session for-credit course at Columbia, but  offered through the School of Professional Studies so open to students and others not currently enrolled at Columbia. An on-the-ground introduction to the great American metropolis – the physical city – as it has evolved over the past three centuries. Libraries are overflowing with accounts of New […]

ARCHS4365: Summer session for-credit course at Columbia, but  offered through the School of Professional Studies so open to students and others not currently enrolled at Columbia. See July 6th for details.

Reservations required. Tour of the Woolworth Building lobby, closed to the public for more than a decade and now open again. The tour includes a detailed look at the building’s unmatched polychromatic terra-cotta exterior, and an in-depth exploration of the lobby and its wealth of ornament, including hidden corners and staircases — plus a special visit to the mezzanine level for an up-close view of its extraordinary mosaic ceiling.

ARCHS4365: Summer session for-credit course at Columbia, but  offered through the School of Professional Studies so open to students and others not currently enrolled at Columbia. See July 6th for details.

ARCHS4365: Summer session for-credit course at Columbia, but  offered through the School of Professional Studies so open to students and others not currently enrolled at Columbia. See July 6th for details.

The Upper East Side – Manhattan’s gold coast – maintains an aura of conservative respectability, and perhaps as a result never attracted as much Art Deco flash as its counterpart on the west side of Central Park. Nevertheless, tucked among the Beaux-Arts town houses and sedate neo-Georgian apartment buildings, the neighborhood has some remarkable examples by some of the city’s best architects of the period.

ARCHS4365: Summer session for-credit course at Columbia, but  offered through the School of Professional Studies so open to students and others not currently enrolled at Columbia. See July 6th for details.

ARCHS4365: Summer session for-credit course at Columbia, but  offered through the School of Professional Studies so open to students and others not currently enrolled at Columbia. See July 6th for details.

Reservations required. Tour of the Woolworth Building lobby, closed to the public for more than a decade and now open again. The tour includes a detailed look at the building’s unmatched polychromatic terra-cotta exterior, and an in-depth exploration of the lobby and its wealth of ornament, including hidden corners and staircases — plus a special visit to the mezzanine level for an up-close view of its extraordinary mosaic ceiling.

ARCHS4365: Summer session for-credit course at Columbia, but  offered through the School of Professional Studies so open to students and others not currently enrolled at Columbia. See July 6th for details.

ARCHS4365: Summer session for-credit course at Columbia, but  offered through the School of Professional Studies so open to students and others not currently enrolled at Columbia. See July 6th for details.

ARCHS4365: Summer session for-credit course at Columbia, but  offered through the School of Professional Studies so open to students and others not currently enrolled at Columbia. See July 6th for details.

ARCHS4365: Summer session for-credit course at Columbia, but  offered through the School of Professional Studies so open to students and others not currently enrolled at Columbia. See July 6th for details.

Sponsored by the Municipal Art Society. Reservations required ($20; $15 MAS members). To register, call 212-935-3960, or click here to register on-line. Perhaps best-known of New York’s official “Scenic Landmarks,” Central Park offers New Yorkers refuge, recreation and rejuvenation; a temporary haven from a city of brick and steel, concrete and glass. And yet this park which […]

ARCHS4365: Summer session for-credit course at Columbia, but  offered through the School of Professional Studies so open to students and others not currently enrolled at Columbia. See July 6th for details.

ARCHS4365: Summer session for-credit course at Columbia, but  offered through the School of Professional Studies so open to students and others not currently enrolled at Columbia. See July 6th for details.