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Starchitects Design Glamorous Prisons for Manhattan’s Elite
NYC's new starchitect designed prisons: Top left to bottom right: Norten's Americano, Williams and Tsien's Folk Art Prison, LOT-EK's Shipping Container Confinement, SANAA's New Detention, Norten's Celda, Ban's Shutter House
Shigeru Ban, known for his paper tube structures and disaster relief projects, as well as several ground-breaking homes in Japan, has produced a small minimum security prison. Just eight blocks north of the Americano, the Shutter House opens and closes it’s tightly perforated metal shutters as the warden sees fit.
— barkitecturemag.com
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Needs an editorial tag.
This is a very cute article, but JJR is right - it shouldn't have a News tag.
It's tagged snark
PS: we need more snark
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