180 Varick Street
A look at the work spaces inside New York City’s infamous design address. By Stephen Zacks, April 18, 2007.
This photo is labeled correctly in the actual print publication of Metropolis and in various other third party blogs such as Archidose:
http://archidose.blogspot.com/2007/08/180-varick-street.html The picture shows Mitchell Joachim and Makoto as Terreform. Directly on the other side of the room is a different office.
"The office building at 180 Varick Street in Manhattan’s West Village is sometimes sarcastically referred to as an architecture ghetto. It’s filled with studios, each of them packed with the mundane objects and tools that make up the working life of today’s designer."