"A colossal cliff of green-tinted glass stretches along the side of a railway line, like a minty glacier greeting arriving trains. The glazing shimmers strangely in the light, its surface variously matt and gloss, wrapping offices and atriums together inside a changeable crystal skin. There's a reason it looks unlike a typical office block and it's not just the Swiss precision."
"Almost 6,000 miles west of Basel's glass monolith, in the tiny town of Marfa in the Texas desert, Judd's architecture office has now been opened to the public, following a $3.3m, seven-year restoration, led by Houston architect Troy Schaum. Housed in an innocuous 1900s brick grocery store on the main street, it provides a fascinating window into the artist's working process as he shifted to a larger scale and the headaches that came with it."
Peter Merian Haus in Basel presents a monumental green-tinted glass facade that wraps offices and atriums in a shifting matt-and-gloss surface. Completed in 2000, it represents the largest architectural commission by Donald Judd and reflects his minimalist sensibility at building scale. Judd expanded his practice into architecture and established an office in Marfa, Texas, where a $3.3m, seven-year restoration recently opened the 1900s brick workspace to the public. The Marfa office reveals practical challenges Judd faced—planning permissions, client demands, weatherproofing—and his hands-on approach to design, including occasional material mistakes.
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