This NEW Building at Cooper Union in the Lower East Side of Manhattan has caused so much uproar in the face of "new" architecture in the City. It is the newest spectacle of tourists, designed by architect Thom Mayne from the Californian firm Morphosis, and has brought a considerable amount of attention to the school.
It is such an exciting and playful design, interactive from the inside with its verticality broken up by a 4 story grand staircase, spiraling assents, colorful stairwells, textural elements, and an attractive dynamic sensibility. The exterior even moves into the street, with concrete ramps that has been a key spot for skaters, riders, and people to climb and slide down since the opening of the building.
It is so playful in fact, that the school seems to have contacted local authorities to sit in fake Taxis and reprimand people for interacting with the space! Be aware, of you are going to hit the spot, tickets are being issued for Disorderly Conduct in which participant(s) acted in a manner which "serves no legitimate purpose".
This Helps:
a. police fill their quota
b. keep those fucking kids off the street
c. gives roided cops someone to yell at with another institution behind their back
d. Cooper Union look like its under police control
e. authorities claim that interactive structures are not up to civilians to discover a "proper function"
f. distinguish and establish a shitty precedent for this law in court systems and definition of "legitimate purpose"
g. apparently to allow cops to call kids "fucking retards" to describe the action of "serving no legitimate purpose"
h. make everyone march in single file lines
i. suck out life blood
Check out NY curbed, the discussion is funny...
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