41 Cooper Square - New York
New Yorkers take good things for granted. We accept the city's virtues as entitlements and are vocal about its imperfections—we complain, or kvetch, in the native parlance, with passionate expertise. When a good thing has been around for a while it takes something surprising and preferably controversial to bring it back to center stage.
That is clearly the case for the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art and its dramatic new building, a stunning—some would say startling—addition to the 150-year-old institution that has occupied its landmark Foundation Building on Cooper Square since 1859. Designed by Thom Mayne of Morphosis, a West Coast firm based in Santa Monica, Calif., in association with Gruzen Samton of New York, the bold new arrival has been widely praised by the architectural community and sharply criticized by those who see it as a contextual affront to the neighborhood. This is a disagreement that won't go away any time soon.
Source: WSJ
41 Cooper Square - New York
New Yorkers take good things for granted. We accept the city's virtues as entitlements and are vocal about its imperfections—we complain, or kvetch, in the native parlance, with passionate expertise. When a good thing has been around for a while it takes something surprising and preferably controversial to bring it back to center stage.
That is clearly the case for the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art and its dramatic new building, a stunning—some would say startling—addition to the 150-year-old institution that has occupied its landmark Foundation Building on Cooper Square since 1859. Designed by Thom Mayne of Morphosis, a West Coast firm based in Santa Monica, Calif., in association with Gruzen Samton of New York, the bold new arrival has been widely praised by the architectural community and sharply criticized by those who see it as a contextual affront to the neighborhood. This is a disagreement that won't go away any time soon.
Source: WSJ