Report Card Says 'Spectacular': New York's Cooper Union Science and Art Building Goes Public
New York City’s new Cooper Union Science and Art buildingWe have a very sexy new building in New York, one that could be featured in just about every channel of Anne of Carversville. This is what I call versatile architecture.
The new Cooper Union School for the Advancement of Science and Art, a project 10 years in the making and finally contracted to the Pritzker-Prize winning firm Morphosis of California, opened its doors last week.
It’s reported that some people never left the staircase, which must be one of most fabulous stairways in New York.
The Cooper Union Science and Art Building’s staircase is techno modern and yet sublimely intimate.The new Cooper Union building is grand on a manageable scale, disruptive yet elegant. Modest even though we’re all just wild about her. The nine story, 175,000 square foot structure is impossible to forget and yet it comes as a welcome neighbor.
We’re not looking at “domination design”, a “crushing masterpiece” diminishing everything else in its shadow.
This New York City skin game is in no danger of imminent arrest. The resulting design is on track to achieve Gold level LEED certification but the school is actually targeting the difficult Platinum level which can be achieved after several long term surveys are completed. The school will be New York CIty’s first LEED certified academic laboratory building. via PSFK
Every city agency is saying “yeah, that’s my girl.” OK, so perhaps she’s not female, but like so many women she’s opaque from the street, but mightly revealing once you’re inside her nerve center.
The heart and soul of the building are in the atrium and central stairway, a place where science is suddenly seductive, where taking the stairs is an inspiring experience and not a begrudging form of benign exercise.
New York’s Cooper Union studios have natural light and a vew of the neighborhood.Not so obvious in the photos is the ecofriendly interior, made of bamboo. In providing these photos PSFK blog writes that the art studios located on the top floor are a painters dream, each having skylights and perimeter windows that let lots of natural light in.
The star of last week’s fashion shows wasn’t on the runway. It was here, in lower Manhattan, in the original central nervous system of a young and brash New York: the name of this unassuming femme fatale, in case you missed it: Cooper Union Science and Art Building. Anne
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Simply mind blowing!!!! Good work!