The Spring Street Salt Shed will be completed in 2014 Who knew salt sheds could be architecture porn? Next year, the $10 million salt shed on Spring Street and West Street will be completed, designed by Dattner Architects on a commission from the City of New York and the Sanitation Department. The pointy, “crystalline” building will be 70 feet tall and able to store 4,000 tons of salt. According to the firm’s website, “The structure tapers toward the bottom, creating more pedestrian space, and rises from a glazed moat that will be illuminated at night.” Lest the other 44 other salt sheds in New York City feel left out, other people have found photographic inspiration in these seemingly mundane municipal structures. At Untapped Cities, we’ve been on the lookout for them since 2009 when we ended up poking (trespassing) around inside one in Sunset Park. Flicker user -ytf- has even made a stereoscopic 3D image of… Read More