Scholastic Building

{{Short description|Building in Manhattan, New York}}

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|name = Scholastic Building

|image = Scholastic Headquarters by Matthew Bisanz.JPG

|caption = Scholastic Building (center)

|location = 557 Broadway, New York City, New York 10012

|status = Completed

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|completion_date= 2001

|building_type = Headquarters of the Scholastic Corporation

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|architectural = {{convert|47.24|m|ft}}

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|floor_count = 10

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|architect = Aldo Rossi

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|owner = Scholastic Corporation

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The Scholastic Building is the 12-story headquarters of the Scholastic Corporation, located on Broadway between Prince and Spring Streets in the SoHo neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. Built in 2001, it was the first new building to be constructed in the SoHo-Cast Iron Historic District, replacing a one-story garage built in 1954.[http://www.nyc.gov/html/lpc/downloads/pdf/reports/SoHo_HD.pdf "NYCLPC SoHo - Cast-Iron Historic District Designation Report"] It is the only building in New York ever to be designed by Italian architect, Aldo Rossi.{{cite AIA4}}, p.101 Originally conceived of in his New York office, it was completed and refined by a disciple of his, Morris Adjmi. It is respectful of the neighboring buildings and pays homage to the district's cast iron architectural identity. The cast iron architecture that defines this neighborhood straddles between the classical and industrial periods of New York's past. According to historian William Higgins, "the building’s columnar Broadway façade, in steel, terra-cotta, and stone, echoes the scale and the formal, Classical character of its commercial neighbors. The rear façade, on Mercer Street, extracts a gritty essence from its more utilitarian surroundings of plain cast iron and weathered masonry."{{cite news |author=Lisa Santoro |date=5 June 2013 |title=The Scholastic Building: A Newcomer Steeped in History |url=http://ny.curbed.com/2013/6/5/10236534/the-scholastic-building-a-newcomer-steeped-in-history |newspaper=Curbed |access-date=5 June 2016 }} The Scholastic Building was designed and assembled using a "kit of parts" methodology, which is similar to a time when the facades of SoHo's cast-iron buildings were built by ordering the building elements and ornaments in parts from a catalog, having them cast off-site in foundries, and assembled on site.