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1943: The Gestapo pulled up to the town of Turnac in southwestern France following a trail of clues that ended at a modest tobacco drying shed with an abutting pigpen. Inside, M. Vereille was telegraphing London. He was then sent to a concentration camp in Poland (from which he walked home after the war). The outbuilding was burned to the ground with only one masonry wall remaining. Never recognized as anything more than an eyesore, it remained an ignominious scattering of rubble.

The commission to design the new flagship store for clothing designer Eileen Fisher outlined a program featuring a loft-like main space, a separate room for new "collections," eight dressing rooms, office space, storage space and toilets. Working closely with Eileen Fisher’s concepts of rich simplicity and the systematic layering of garments, CDR Studio investigated the relationship between building materials and natural light, as well as the client’s relationship with the public.

The carousel pavilion on Segment 5, Pier 62 is an architectural component of the landscape design comprising 8 acres of Hudson River Park — what has become the largest breadth of park along the Hudson River in Manhattan. The carousel enclosure is emphasized by an exposed structure and includes materials that recall the site’s warehouse past. It also provides a gradation of program from the romantic park setting to the nearby sports recreation spaces of Chelsea Piers.