Architect’s Newspaper: COOKFOX and Gensler design Google’s new workspace in St. John’s Terminal to be authentically New York
St. John's Terminal viewed from Houston Street. Image courtesy of Google.
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Via Architect’s Newspaper:
“One definition of authentic, coincidentally Merriam Webster’s 2023 Word of the Year, is “conforming to an original so as to reproduce essential features.” So, at St. John’s Terminal, the industrial history of the building had to be on full display. COOKFOX did exactly that, paying homage to the railway cut-through by evoking one of Cook’s architectural luminaries: Gordon Matta Clark, king of the “building cut.””
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