A very long time ago, I worked on a project at the Fashion Institute of Technology, at what was then called Building C, and is now the Marvin Feldman Center. The early buildings on the campus were all variations on brutalism and, like so many buildings of that style, had partially open first floors to create plazas with the columns for the floors above passing through. FIT has grown a great deal over the years, and the project I was involved was infilling the West 28th Street plaza of Building C to create a flat facade. The infill had a brick facade that contrasted rather abruptly with the angular metal facade of the rest of the building, seen above. Later a one-story extension was added in front of our work, filling in what had been a parking lot between the plaza and the sidewalk.
David Golab was kind enough to send me the picture above and the two below, which show an apartment house under construction on 28th Street directly across the street from C/Feldman. It appears that the architects of the new building liked the neighboring angular facade. The two buildings combined are going to give that block a certain feeling that is a bit different from the normal brick, terra, and glass that covers so much of Manhattan.
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