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catching up on the fab-prefab containerbay page and found this :
The Landmarks Preservation Commission today approved a certificate of appropriateness for a new residential co-operative building with 8 units at 372 Lafayette Street in NoHo. The 6-story building is distinguished by its red-metal structural frame that houses shipping container boxes.
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“The use of the shipping containers has aesthetic and historical analogies to the district’s cast-iron architecture. Both are mass-produced and pre-fabricated and the repetitive bays of the shipping containers are similar to the repeating arches and panel of Italianate building. In overreaching terms, this is an appropriate material and building construction to introduce into this manufacturing district,” she continued.
The civic organization at that time objecting to the blue cladding then planned for the building, recommending the use of “brick red containers could help mediate between this new and very modern material and the historic buildings.” “It is heartening to see a building that adaptively uses what is normally an industrial cast-off,” Ms. Kersavage concluded.