The Spring Street Salt Shed along the Hudson River has attracted more public curiosity and media attention than any other salt sheds in the city, especially since winning a municipal design award in 2010. Designed by Dattner Architects in conjunction with WXY Architecture & Urban Planning, the award-winning structure in lower manhattan is a building that resembles literally what it stores – de-icing salt for the city’s roads.

The 69-foot high structure will replace the one on the Gansevoort Peninsula, and is the city’s first fully enclosed salt shed. Inspired by a grain of gray salt, the $20 million concrete structure folds and creases to create a windowless facade akin to a massive piece of origami.