
41 Cooper Square, Morphosis, 2009/All photos: Iwan Baan
Not long ago, in connection with a story I'll be posting soon on Time.com, I had a conversation with Thom Mayne, the Pritzker Prize-winning architect who heads the Santa Monica-based firm Morphosis. This fall New York got its first building by Mayne, a really compelling project in the East Village that holds offices, laboratories and classrooms for the Cooper Union, a college in Manhattan's East Village. It's striking, it's different, it really brings the streetscape alive and it turns its main interior stairway into a four-story coiling trip. I talked to Mayne mostly about his approach to that project.
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