The building is the Spring Street Salt Shed, and it holds 5,000 tons of salt to help deal with winter’s snow and ice. The 67-foot-tall angular structure is modeled on the shape of a salt crystal, and its bluish concrete walls are meant to age to a salty gray.
Wealthy Tribeca residents had fought it for years.
But since the $18 million shed opened last winter, it’s been lauded as an achievement in urban art. The New York Times’ architecture critic opined, “I can’t think of a better public sculpture to land in New York than the shed.”
