National Sawdust

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A deluxe live-music pod floating inside an old brick box in Williamsburg, with a sense of possiblity and range which informs the design. A bright, spray-painted mural on the exterior suggests that artists will create the institution, rather than the other way around. A vestibule lined with a herringbone pattern of black-glazed brick creates a buffer of handmade glamour between the street and the musical womb. Textured screens of various shapes and sizes, separated by black steel channels, clad the interior, making the space look at once improvised and calculated, patterned and kinetic, much like the music that is performed there. — Justin Davidson

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