Carlos Zapata and Antonio Citterio's Cooper Square Hotel, New York

Unlike most glamorous new high‐rise apartment buildings in downtown Manhattan, this thin, tilted white glass tower provides homes away from home for chic out‐of‐towners. And what ‘homes’ they are. Upstairs are astounding long‐range views; on the lower floors, a series of glass‐walled lounges, restau...

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Published in:Architectural design 2009-03, Vol.79 (2), p.114-117
Main Author: Merkel, Jayne
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
145 rooms
4- metre (14- foot) tall walnut doors
Anthony Vidler
Bowery
cocktail lounge
Cooper Union
Cooper Union Administration Building
double- paned operable windows
floors are black Italian slate
geometric garden
glass canopy
glass- walled lounges
Greenwich Village
Housing Works
it gets wider after the neck
John Hejduk
library
Like a face
Like a face, it gets wider after the neck
Morphosis
no reception desk
Norman Foster
SANAA's New Museum of Contemporary Art
screening room
spectacular views
stencilled murals
The Duchess
Thom Mayne
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Summary:Unlike most glamorous new high‐rise apartment buildings in downtown Manhattan, this thin, tilted white glass tower provides homes away from home for chic out‐of‐towners. And what ‘homes’ they are. Upstairs are astounding long‐range views; on the lower floors, a series of glass‐walled lounges, restaurants, balconies, a garden and even a library with a wood‐burning fireplace. And, as Jayne Merkel explains, these sensual pleasures are mixed with intellectual ones. There are art and travel books in every room and guests can enjoy ‘movie nights’ in the screening room.
ISSN:0003-8504
1554-2769
DOI:10.1002/ad.867