14 Responses to “Cooper Union Academic Building”

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   Flickr: Arch-Sculptures, on March 30th, 2007 at 2:17 am Said:

   I remember when St George was built, after they demolished 7 Hall st apartments, and the old St George Ukranian church directly to the East.

   it was all precast concrete as I recall, and a copper dome that was shiney and turned green over 5 years. That would be around 1978

   http://www.lostnewyorkcity.com/buildingphotos/Plate-58-b.html

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   Flickr: GammaBlog, on March 30th, 2007 at 2:22 am Said:

   Very cool. Interesting to see that old style construction shed made with lumber. I haven’t seen one of those in years.

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   Flickr: Arch-Sculptures, on March 30th, 2007 at 2:58 am Said:

   Yeah it is, those were made from salvaged floor joists and old doors! They did the job though I almost collapsed one by accident at 117 Ave C in 1975 when a huge chunk of cornice stone fell off the top of the wall while I was prying on a keystone nearby, the stone landed on the scaffold about 10 feet below which then started to sway out towards the street!

   You can see where the stone was in the bottom photo, in the center of it over a large square panel, to the left over the blue doors you can see what the rest of it looked like (though that was smaller) and how much fell down;

   http://www.lostnewyorkcity.com/buildingphotos/Plate-13-b.html

   The first photo shows what fell down a little better.

   The hole over the window to the right was where I was working and I jiggled the brick wall just enough with my crowbar to topple that stone a few feet away, so it was not very stable or secure when the workers left for the day if that’s all it took.

   The scaffold took the weight, swayed out maybe a foot and then slowly came back- lucky there!

4. 
   Flickr: ibitmylip, on November 13th, 2007 at 8:34 am Said:

   watch out, don’t fall into that giant hole. there’s some serious subsidence happening on that sidewalk next to third ave there.

5. 
   Flickr: GammaBlog, on November 13th, 2007 at 10:28 am Said:

   I didn’t notice that, ibitmylip. I must have been standing right on top of it.

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   Flickr: ibitmylip, on November 14th, 2007 at 10:41 am Said:

   they tried to cover the ever-widening crack with some patches of asphalt, but even the asphalt is coming apart. take a look at it next time you are walking by. it is more distinctive toward 7th street than toward 6th street.

7. 
   Flickr: ratherbebiking, on November 15th, 2007 at 5:11 am Said:

   I’m not one to constantly moan about new buildings, but the alleyway/street behind the old building was amazing and I’ll miss it.

8. 
   Flickr: rohancbradley, on February 9th, 2009 at 5:57 am Said:

   i love the architecture its well captured

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   Flickr: scpgch, on February 9th, 2009 at 10:10 am Said:

   I live right there, I’m sorry to be a Debi Downer, but I think the metal panels look like crap.The panels are very dull metal except the small reflective squares.
   It doesn’t look so bad in this pic, though.

10. 
    Flickr: madmaxnyc, on February 17th, 2009 at 8:10 am Said:

    Yeah, looks way better here than irl

11. 
    Flickr: GammaBlog, on February 19th, 2009 at 6:06 am Said:

    Thanks all. What I wonder is why they want to make everyone look through that mesh. Isn’t one of the nice things about being inside is being able to look outside? Also what is being in that Faraday cage going to do to radio and cell phone reception.

12. 
    Flickr: Lost-NYC, on February 25th, 2009 at 5:43 am Said:

    Looks like a total monstrosity, I never cease to be amazed at what the Landmarks Preservation allows to be destroyed while saving some dumpy non-descript building. They allowed Wash Sq park’s area character to be completely destroyed for NYU’s monstrosities on the South side, now this horrid looking warped glass box and that high rise warped looking glass box on the other side next to a historic building like Cooper.

13. 
    Flickr: GammaBlog, on February 25th, 2009 at 6:56 am Said:

    I can’t get too worked up over the old academic building, it was no architectural wonder. But the line of spaceship looking things that have landed on the Bowery are something else. I wish they were in someone else’s neighborhood.

14. 
    Flickr: MARGARET GOSDEN, on September 6th, 2009 at 12:32 pm Said:

    This is an eye sore for a building. Why couldn’t Cooper Union, a school of architecture no less, have hired Frank Gehry, if they wanted to make an indelible statement?

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