Developer Two Trees replaced Rafael Viñoly's master plan for the redevelopment of the Domino Sugar Factory with a master plan by SHoP in March 2013. The new design has a lot more towers, open space, and actually preserves the shell of the refinery building. SHoP will design at least one tower that will rise 400 feet, but to add variety to the development, other architecture firms will be involved.

The Barclays Center is no doubt SHoP's highest profile project. The new home of the Brooklyn Nets opened in late 2012, and the swooping steel structure, made up of 12,000 panels, has been reviewed by all of the major archicritics. The arena hosts a public plaza under an oculus that's larger than a basketball court, while inside, the actual court is below ground level, so visitors look out over the court when they enter.

Along with the Barclays Center commission came the master plan for Atlantic Yards. SHoP's designs replaced those of Frank Gehry, and the first tower, known as B2, will be the world's tallest modular tower—if it ever gets built. Currently, developer Forest City Ratner and construction company Skanska are feuding over cost overruns. As such, the 32-story tower is stuck at just 10 stories.

Completed in 2003, the Porter House was one of SHoP's earliest residential projects. It's a conversion of a 1905 meatpacking warehouse, and SHoP created a cantilevering 20,000-square-foot four-story addition. The 25 condos have sold and re-sold for millions of dollars, and it's not unusual to see them on the rental market asking tens of thousands of dollars a month.

Hints of the Porter House design are evident in SHoP's new Upper East Side project, in that both buildings have rows of offset rectangular windows. This 34-story building, developed by Anbau Enterprises, will hold 78 "affordable luxury" condos and a robotic parking garage, indoor basketball court (maybe), and ground floor retail.

SHoP's first and only project in Queens is a big one: residential towers at Hunters Point South, the largest affordable housing complex to be built since the 1970s. Two SHoP-designed towers are currently under construction. The 37-story and 32-story buildings will hold a total of 925 apartments.

Beside the new Pier 17, there may rise a new 50-story tower by SHoP. A tower had been part of the seaport makeover plan since the beginning, but when Howard Hughes revealed new renderings last year, the public outcry from the neighbors was swift and strong, with complaints alleging that the skyscraper would block views of the Brooklyn Bridge and be out of context with the neighborhood. Plans for the tower are currently working their way through the approvals process, but it's likely that it will become a reality, despite the opposition. If it's built as currently planned, it will have a 95,000-square-foot hotel and 280,000 square feet of market-rate residential apartments.

As part of the Seaport makeover, Howard Hughes also tasked SHoP with redesigning the Fulton Market Building. The 1983 building has been vacant since the Fulton Fish Market moved to the Bronx in 2005, and SHoP's design will add new awnings, better lighting, and new signage.

Just south of Pier 17 is SHoP's Pier 15, a multi-level public space that has a green roof, two lower level glass pavilions for eateries, lots of landscaping, and dozens of things to sit on.

The First Avenue Mud Pit is, at long last, solidifying. JDS Development, which bought the site from Sheldon Solow last year, is planning to turn it into "the highest-end rental the city has ever seen." Two curvy copper towers connected by a skybridge with a bonkers-looking indoor pool will hold 800 apartments. Rents are expected to be about $80 per square foot.

JDS is also responsible for this insanely tall 'n' skinny sky-scraping tower on "Billionaires' Row," which they are building with Property Markets Group. Part of the group of supertalls that will forever change the landscape south of Central Park, the 1,350-foot building will house only 45 apartments, and each floor will be its own 5,000-square-foot apartment with 15-foot ceilings. Its superlative? The slenderest building in the world. Also: the crown looks like it'll be pretty distinct. Construction is slated for completion in 2016.

Just this summer, SHoP filed plans for a 70-story, 775-foot-tall whopper to be developed by JDS Development Group in Downtown Brooklyn. SHoP and JDS have both kept quiet about the plans, but information on the Department of Buildings filings indicate that it will have 495 apartments and 109,000 square feet of commercial space. Sadly, there are no renderings yet.

Among the major changes coming to the area around Staten Island's ferry pier—a ginormous ferris wheel, to name just one—is a 125-store outlet mall that will also include a hotel and restaurants. Empire Outlets' retail space will span 340,000 square feet, and the design includes green roofs and outdoor atriums. Nordstrom Rack is its first official tenant; and it's slated to open on Black Friday in 2016.

What started as Nolita's "struggling starchitecture" and "saddest starchitecture" was later reborn as a rental building with eight full-floor lofts and one ginormous penthouse that's doing just fine in today's booming market. The wavy pile o' bricks at the corner of Mulberry and East Houston has just one apartment up for rent right now, a 3BR/3BA for $15,500 per month.

Like the Porter House, this project, known as M127, was also a conversion and addition, and one of SHoP's earlier residential projects. Located at 127 Madison Avenue, this building uses a lot of elements that have become familiar in SHoP's projects: steel, brick, and geometric shapes. The building has eight full floor apartments and two duplex penthouses with rooftop terraces. The developer Cardinal Investments ran into financial troubles with the downturn, and in 2010, six of the condos were auctioned off.