“In November 68, I bought a cast-iron building in the Cast-Iron District of New York City. The building was built in 1870 and designed by Nicholas Whyte, whose only other cast-iron building is in Brazil. I don’t know the first purpose of the building, but suppose that something of cloth was made on the upper floors and sold on the lower ones, since many building in the area were stores, since the façade is fancy, not like that of a warehouse, and since it is mostly glass. The building is on a corner and is a right angle of glass. The façade is the most shallow perhaps of any in the area and so is the furthest forerunner of the curtain-wall. The lot is only 25 x 75 feet. As usual, there are five stories and two basements, which originally were well-lit through the ground-level clerestory and the sidewalk.”
The opening of Donald Judd’s essay on his 101 Spring Street home and studio, currently being renovated by Architecture Research Office. Read the entire essay and see a few more interiors, shot by Elizabeth Felicella, on Design Observer.
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