"Donald Judd's architecture office in Marfa will reopen this month after a seven-year restoration. The building caught fire in 2021, less than one month before what was originally a three-year renovation was due to be completed, partially collapsing the roof and parts of the top floor. The $3.3m restoration of the two-floor brick building began in 2018 as part of the Marfa Restoration Plan, a project to restore six sites under the stewardship of the Judd Foundation."
"Judd bought the 5,000 sq. ft building, which once served as a grocery store, in 1990. The building is situated on a prominent corner of Highland Avenue in the Central Marfa Historic District and has a glass façade that opens to the main street and connects the space to the historic Texas town. The building houses art, furniture and various prototypes and architectural blueprints, which had been moved during the renovation and were unharmed by the fire."
Donald Judd's two-floor, 5,000 sq. ft. Marfa architecture office reopens after a seven-year, $3.3m restoration following a 2021 fire that partially collapsed the roof and parts of the top floor. Restoration began in 2018 as part of the Marfa Restoration Plan to restore six Judd Foundation sites; sprinklers had not yet been installed when the building burned for over 12 hours and the cause remains unknown. Judd bought the former grocery-store building in 1990; it sits on Highland Avenue in the Central Marfa Historic District and has a glass façade opening to the main street. The downstairs will partly house a foundation office and the only Marfa display of Judd's furniture alone; the upper level remains staff and researcher apartments containing works by John Chamberlain and Alvar Aalto.
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