Michael Friedlander, Urban Architect of Offbeat Designs, Dies at 63
Michael Friedlander, Urban Architect of Offbeat Designs, Dies at 63 He was best known for the Spring Street Salt Shed, a crystalline structure that appears, with a little imagination, to form a coarse grain of salt. Michael Friedlander in 2007 with a model of what ultimately became the Department of Sanitation building at the corner of 55th Street and 12th Avenue in Manhattan. He worked for the department for 40 years.Credit...Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times April 1, 2021 In the 1970s, Michael Friedlander was an architecture student at the Cooper Union, his head bursting with bodacious, unc...
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