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Apr. 14, 2015 / Gordon Price

New York – Cooper Square 41 – 4

Despite the cost of 41 Cooper Square, it’s not a particularly well-finished building.  Indeed, it seems in some places to be…
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Apr. 14, 2015 / Gordon Price

New York – Cooper Square 41 – 3

Cooper Union was established by the philanthropist Peter Cooper on the premise that it be “open and free to all.”…
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Apr. 14, 2015 / Gordon Price

New York – Cooper Square 41 – 2

The main feature of the building internally is the central atrium: .  . The colour palate is essentially limited to…
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Apr. 10, 2015 / Gordon Price

New York – The Tallest Condo – 5

432 Park: the tallest residential building in the world, as seen from all over NYC: . A drive-by on Central Park…
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Apr. 10, 2015 / Gordon Price

New York – The Tallest Condo – 4

432 Park: the tallest residential building in the world, as seen from all over NYC: . From the Lower East Side .…
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Apr. 10, 2015 / Gordon Price

New York – The Tallest Condo – 3

432 Park: the tallest residential building in the world, as seen from all over NYC: . From Cadman Plaza in Brooklyn…
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Apr. 10, 2015 / Gordon Price

New York – The Tallest Condo – 2

432 Park: the tallest residential building in the world, as seen from all over NYC: . From the High Line, Phase 3…
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Apr. 10, 2015 / Gordon Price

New York – The Tallest Condo – 1

If there’s a single architectural controversy in New York (and there really isn’t only one), it’s the emerging line-up of…
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Apr. 09, 2015 / Gordon Price

New York – Images – 7

An architectural gem randomly discovered by glancing down a street: the former Brooklyn Fire Department Headquarters, now refurbished as 18…
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Apr. 09, 2015 / Gordon Price

New York – Images – 6

Brooklyn government centre – the way they did it in the 19th century: . And then, looking immediately to the…
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Apr. 09, 2015 / Gordon Price

New York – Images – 5

Chelsea?  The Upper East Side? Park Slope?  Nope – the address gives it away. . . A rapidly gentrifying Harlem.…
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Apr. 09, 2015 / Gordon Price

New York – Images – 4

Long Island City as seen from Roosevelt Island – a ‘Vancouver-style’ megaproject of waterfront towers?  (And they say our green-glass…
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Apr. 09, 2015 / Gordon Price

New York – Images – 3

The World Trade Center Transportation Hub under construction on the lower right (designed by Santiago Calatrava), with new office and condominium towers…
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Apr. 09, 2015 / Gordon Price

New York – Images – 2

The World Trade Center site as seen from Brookfield Place, previously known as the World Financial Center. . . .…

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