What were the cultural highlights of 2011? Icon asks nine international critics, curators and experts to select their half-dozen stand-out moments in architecture, design and art.

What were the cultural highlights of 2011? Icon asks nine international critics, curators and experts to select their half-dozen stand-out moments in architecture, design and art.

On the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, New York’s memorial to the 2,982 victims opens at Ground Zero.

In 1811, the Commissioners’ Plan for New York presented a revolutionary document, a map depicting 12 avenues and
155 cross streets, better known as the Manhattan street grid, which made possible the city we know today.

A new exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York celebrates the Commissioners’ Plan for New York, now 200 years old, as a revolutionary document and a metaphor for openness

The ten-block extension to James Corner’s New York rooftop garden takes in breathtaking views and an ever-changing variety of tropical greenery.

The rehang of the New York museum’s design and architecture galleries presents a subversive and revisionist view of history.

This month Peter Zumthor’s serene pavilion opens at the Serpentine, MoMA explores objects designed for communication in a new exhibition called Talk to Me, Design Parade 6 gets underway at Villa Noailles and graduates show off their hard work at London’s New Designers event.

We were fortunate in February to be able to go to see not one but three new short films about architecture. Here’s a quick roundup of what we saw.

Manifesto #43 with architect Steven Holl in New York.