The mayor vetoed on Monday the Council's decision on the warehouse, designed by Cass Gilbert in 1915.

Dynon's Building at 63-73 Hardware Lane is a set of four warehouses designed by William Pitt, the designer of some of the finest gothic revival buildings in the city including Princess Theatre.

Construction on a new warehouse designed to provide storage facilities for small start-up businesses began last month in Long Island City, Queens, across the East River from mid-Manhattan.

The Elbe Philharmonic Hall (Elbphilharmonie), expected to be completed by 2015, will house concerts in a building on top of an old warehouse, designed by the Swiss firm Herzog & de Meuron.

Eventually, they discover the spacecraft was simply a mockup built in a warehouse, designed to keep them busy.

Or head to the Schaulager, another private art foundation that's housed in an awe-inducing warehouse designed by Herzog & de Meuron (Ruchfeldstrasse 19; 41-61-335-3232; www.schaulager.org).

Another fine piece of architecture in the area is a warehouse designed by Watson Fothergill, a prolific local architect responsible for some 100 buildings in the area between 1870 to 1906.

The 25,000-square-foot complex contains two distinct areas: A warehouse designed for skateboarding and an office complex.

Amazon.com moved into a building formerly owned by Stanley Works, a highly mechanized warehouse designed to supply retailers with packages of tools.

The hotel was originally three cotton warehouses (with a fourth standing to the left) which made up the four warehouses designed by Edward Walters between 1851 and 1858.