The design itself explores architecture’s capacity to “image” by revealing the Minetta Creek, an important natural feature of Manhattan and site of urbanity predating colonization. Along the path of the creek, a public through-block arcade breaks Manhattan’s orthogonal grid. The addition of a mass-timber structure, which extends onto the street as an accessible scaffolding, opens space for a theater on/of the street and a rooftop gallery – inviting the public back into what was once the city’s “most up-to-date” store. A building rooted in its landscape and cityscape where new ideas through images can develop.