THE CIVIC VALUE OF A BOLD STATEMENT

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	THE CIVIC VALUE OF A BOLD STATEMENT

ellington

6-5-2009 9:47 PM

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6-6-2009 5:51 PM

miad20

great design...it's the first building it seems to me to be 'cut' in the same way the fashion designers cut fabrics....

6-7-2009 8:59 AM

ellington

You have a good eye Mia.

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The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art: The college’s new academic building, a contemporary work designed between Sixth and Seventh Streets in the East Village.
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</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/05/arts/design/05coop.html#"><P>We’ll have to wait to find out  exactly what the end of the Age of Excess means for architecture in New York. Yes, the glut of high-concept luxury towers was wearisome. But some great civic works were also commissioned in that era. And given the hard economic times, they may be the last we  see for quite some time.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/05/arts/design/05coop.html#">The new academic building at the <A title="More articles about Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/c/cooper_union_for_the_advancement_of_science_and_art/index.html?inline=nyt-org">Cooper Union</A> for the Advancement of Science and Art is yet more proof that some great art was produced in those self-indulgent times. Designed by <A title="More articles about Thom Mayne." href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/m/thom_mayne/index.html?inline=nyt-per">Thom Mayne</A> of the Los Angeles firm Morphosis,  it is not a perfect building, but it is the kind of serious work that we don’t see enough of in New York:</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/05/arts/design/05coop.html#">value. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/05/arts/design/05coop.html#">a bold architectural statement of genuine civic</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/05/arts/design/05coop.html#">Its lively public</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/05/arts/design/05coop.html#"> spaces</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/630E19C1-E65D-479F-8E98-9947446AE43F/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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