Abstract: | ![]() In what was once the goriest part of Manhattan - the Meatpacking District on the far west side - WORKac has created a glittery collection of showrooms, studios and offices spread over four floors, sandwiched between a rooftop dwelling and a street-level flagship store within a pair of 19th-century warehouses. Jayne Merkel explains how sunlight from an angular jewel-like skylight fills the interior, which is intersected by a bejewelled, precast-concrete grand staircase, with refracted, reflected, constantly changing and relatively natural-looking light. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. |