11 Responses to “Cooper Union Academic Building”

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   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.

2. 
   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.

4. 
   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.

5. 
   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.

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

   Yeah, looks way better here than irl

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   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.

9. 
   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.

10. 
    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.

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    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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