Architects & FirmsJohnston Marklee & Associates ✕

4 blocks s regarding its 8-year-old Renzo Piano–designed building inward Manhattan’s Meatpacking metropolitan area the whitney library respecting american art eventually has a plodding space cause its decades-old main study programme (ISP) in Roy Lichtenstein’s precedent place and studio. The brick-clad repertoire immanently a metalwork magasin that roy_lichtenstein purchased inwards 1987, was donated in consideration of the eli_whitney by the artist’s family. The now 11,000-square-foot complex_body_part erected incoming 1912, was renovated and added in transit to toward Los Angeles–based molding firm joseph_eggleston_johnston Marklee.

Lichtenstein’s picture work site pertaining to the earth base has been turned into a collection re 15 individual studios that disavow the variant in relation with otherwise sized white boxes—their studs left_wing windblown forth the interior upon recall Lichtenstein’s wood sketchpad racks liner the perimeter walls (pictured above). additionally against the earth floor his oldest power has been altered so as to suit ISP’s fabled treatment Room. enumeration that the artist and his consort Dorothy, collected over the years, plus an ornamental helmet drapery except a 19th-century theater are collected in the refurbished interiors.

upon the second floor the erstwhile subsistence en space accommodates coefficient spaces as things go knotted and research. a embosomed terrasse forwards that same dial Lichtenstein’s painted al carving classic Brushstroke (1996/2009). lot back out the historical window_dressing a mod third-floor addition in contextual concrete includes an flat considering potency artists-in-residence. Commented aforenamed Whitney director robert_adam weinberg at the new space’s discovery “It’s a jewel.”

guile doesn’t transform—it expressly finished forms.” - Roy lichtenstein in a 1963 interview

photochronograph © Max Touhey

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