Cooper Union
The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, was established in 1859
by inventor, industrialist and philanthropist, Peter Cooper, and offers programs
in art, architecture and engineering.
41 Cooper Square is a 175,000 sq. ft. classroom, laboratory and studio building
designed by Thom Mayne of Morphosis. that opened in 2009, that replaced a smaller
structure that had been built around 1920. Given the school's aesthetic orientation,
it is not surprising that they would choose to follow the international fashions
of the day, although the contrast with the school's majestic 1859 neo-Romanesque
Foundation Hall just to the northwest is jarring. It would be interesting to see
how critics of the future will judge the school's design choice to ignore its
architectural heritage in order to follow the fads of the present.
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Rising around the same time just down the street at
25 Cooper Square was yet another non-contextual
architectural absurdity of the early 21st century. The
Cooper Square Hotel is
a 21-story, 145-room hotel finger tower designed by Carlos Zapata
sandwiched incongruously between a set of low-rise buildings from the 1920s.
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