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A building that resembles what it stores: salt for New York City's roads
Add BT as a preferred sourcePublished Thu, Sep 17, 2015 · 09:50 PM
New York
IMAGINE a coarse chunk of gray salt 21 metres high.
The US$20 million Spring Street Salt Shed, nearing completion on the Manhattan waterfront, has drawn curious stares from drivers along West Street and from pedestrians and cyclists in Hudson River Park. Folded, creased, dimpled and chamfered, its windowless, enigmatic facade is like a monumental work of origami.
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