Craig Kellog Writes:

In 2019, the architect Richard Gluckman, converted a former Con Edison substation for art exhibitions by the Brant Foundation in the East Village. His client Peter M. Brant admired roof gardens at Rockefeller Center and, improbably, requested he turn the substation roof into a similar landscape, with a reflecting pool. Mr. Gluckman told him, “Peter, I don’t want a pool. I want a skylight.”

Remarkably, he was able to supply both at once: a central skylight with a shallow pond on top. “It’s not my original idea but seemed like a perfect solution,” said Mr. Gluckman.

Read more in the New York Times.