Un-Cooper Union-Like Building to Rise on Cooper Union Site
Courtesy of Studley
The folks involved with a new building at 51 Astor Place sent out a rendering of the proposed tower last night, and it seems architect Fumihiko Maki plans a building rather reminiscent of his planned Tower 4 at the World Trade Center (a.k.a. 150 Greenwich Street), with a corrugated facade and distinct angles. The site sits just across from the school’s signature 1859 Cooper Union Foundation Building.
Cooper Union has entered into a long-term lease for the site, currently an engineering building, with Edward J. Minskoff Equities, which will build and own the planned 440,000-square-foot mixed-use building. Studley’s Woody Heller represented Cooper Union on the deal.
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fabulous. another great building for the city.
new york is coming of age.
It's a horrible building trying to be something bigger than it is... and with it goes a beautiful little building by Smith-Miller + Hawkinson Architects
Ugly.
IMO.
Very.
what's up with all of that vacant space in the foreground. yeah, you need to imagine that the existing pizza shop, hotel, beauty salon and such are not there to adequately show the proposed building, but don't have people standing where buildings actually exist.
Surely the building can not be as bland and uninspiring as this rendering. But who knows what architects hope may happen to the urban fabric, after all it supposes that all of the people on Astor Place will be around 3ft high after 2009.
Is this the building or the underground entrance to the Cooper Union art gallery?
Food for thought....
While I certainly appreciate the genius of Mr. Maki, it seems our fledgling projects often find themselves the victims of "development", as in Frank Gehry's downtown Wall Street Guggenheim Project planned (but fortunately never built) on top of our Ferry Terminal at Pier 11.
Now "development" takes it's toll not only on our former Pasqua (now Starbucks) Coffee shop but also Tod Williams' and Billie Tsein's wonderful renovation of a floor in the Engineering Building.
What would John Hedjuk think?
thanks for the comment, it is (was) appreciated
perfect article
perfect article