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Architecture Meets Science Fiction at 41 Cooper Square
Thom Mayne’s new academic building for Cooper Union, 41 Cooper Square, is the Pritzker Prize winning architect’s first building in New York. Sensual, jarring and willfully strange, it’s unlike anything else in the city. New Yorkers won’t find a meaningful introduction to Mayne or his building anywhere in the popular press. Fifteen years ago, a … Architecture Meets Science Fiction at 41 Cooper Square
Here Was My City
A sketch of the Brooklyn Bridge by Lewis Mumford On the eve of another 9/11, a love letter to New York from Lewis Mumford comes to mind. His autobiography, Sketches From Life, describes a youthful walk across the Brooklyn Bridge when he caught “a fleeting glimpse of the utmost possibilities life may hold for man.” Yes: I loved the … Here Was My City