After living for 34 years in apartment 1601 in the Carnegie Hall Studio Towers, Tod Williams and Billie Tsien are among the last 33 tenants facing eviction as the building gets renovated into music rehearsal rooms and classrooms.
New York Magazine
Photo: Josef Astor
Apt. 1601
Tod Williams and Billie Tsien, architects.
Years in the Apartment: 34.
Architects Tod Williams and Billie Tsien have lived, worked, and raised a family in their sixteenth-floor aerie. Their studio will house an emergency generator if the proposed plans go through. Even if Williams and Tsien have to leave, they hope the space can be used by other artists. “It’s not about us,” says Tsien. “It’s about this place as a community for artists.”
Illustration by Jason Lee
Photo: Josef Astor
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i always enjoy looking at architects' own living spaces...lot's of white walls!
ummm, don't they have a townhouse on e. 76th st.? why do they also get an apartment at carnegie hall?
i remember reading that tw has rented the carnegie studio for the past 20-30 yrs.
that place looks amazing...i can't believe that they'd really want dismantle a unique community like that
but I thought the place was an HDFC - meaning that the tenants all own a percentage of the building. who gets to make the decision to convert ?
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