And I loved what some of the Cooper students posted in the windows just before it was demolished. See it? I miss the old NY. My sentiments exactly. I know, the old New York was full of abandoned buildings and weed- and garbage-strewn vacant lots, dark, empty avenues and crime stats were bad, real bad...but it was awesome.
Cooper erased the words in the windows, which struck me as very spoilsport-y of them. Especially since they were going to knock the whole thing down within days anyway.
This is the crazy thing shadowing our lives now. It's huge, it looks like it was attacked by a hook-handed pirate, and from what I hear, it's more a display of ego on the architect's part than useful for the students and faculty of Cooper Union.
Boooo.
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i was going to comment on our library here, but i was too hurt- but today's post of your beloved building forced me to relax-and tell you that before that new downtown library was built here in seattle they destroyed a really nice 1950's library filled with nice quiet rooms and really sweet colored tiles- all blocky and brown- to build a building that is not a library- it's like a gender confused youngster- it should be a art museum or aircraft hanger- cool and trendy but not a library- it's all wasted space they had to throw all the books in the trash and now washington state has no money- and the librarys are closed all the time and the hours are hacked- but we have a bright red hallway filled with hobo's and lots of windows -the state can't afford to clean
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