In 1993, the architect Stephen Holl and the artist Vito Acconci famously collaborated on the renovation of New York City’s Storefront for Art and Architecture, creating a playful, puzzle-like façade of variously shaped, rotating panels opening onto Kenmare Street.
This spring, almost 20 years later, Storefront underwent another improbable transformation—this time orchestrated by a young, Brooklyn-based interdisciplinary studio called Snarkitecture. The studio’s partners, artist Daniel Arsham (A’03) and architect Alex Mustonen (AR’05), packed the interior with large polystyrene blocks, then excavated the space with hand tools to create a wholly unexpected, all-white, sculpted interior somewhat akin to a glacial cavern