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In a season of discontent, 41 Cooper Square reminds us Yanks what we're capable of. The icon broke ground in '06, before "The Great Recession" was uttered, and welcomed students this fall.   MORE >>

In a season of discontent, 41 Cooper Square reminds us Yanks what we're capable of. The icon broke ground in '06, before "The Great Recession" was uttered, and welcomed students this fall.
 
Likely to achieve LEED platinum status (the first for an academic space in New York), the full-block building by bicoastal firm Morphosis has replaced more than 40 percent of the college's teaching spaces, merging previously divided departments. The building's glass and stainless-steel double skin boosts energy efficiency, while the roof harnesses rainwater and cools the eight levels below. Furthermore, symbolizing the architecture and engineering school's ethos of an accessible education (all students get a full scholarship) are the building's sweeping atrium, flexible labs and transparencies that expose its frantic East Village surroundings. "The design is about intellectual, not material capital," says Morphosis' Thom Mayne. "To influence what students will build 30 years from now…I couldn't ask for anything more."
 
Here, finalist Zachary Bako twists the Cooper into something otherworldly, further pushing the architecture into a work of art. Looking into 2010, let’s keep this spirit of openness alive. The alternative isn’t nearly as interesting. morphosis.com   << LESS

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