That long-rumored 13-story office building at 51 Astor Place designed by Japanese architect Fumihiko Maki will be a reality, pretty much. Yesterday, Curbed reported on this from a Wall Street Journal piece.
According to the Journal, 51 Astor Place, formerly the Cooper Union engineering building at St. Mark's and Third, is due to be torn down and replaced by a new office tower. Construction will start next summer, and is expected to be completed in 2013. Or so.
Guess this means no one should get too attached to the new Film Academy Cafe currently calling the former Starbucks space here home....
4 comments:
I love all that open space in the foreground of this rendering - what planet is that on???
oh great
a partner to cooper union's other monstrosity.
maybe they can get married and go away on a honeymoon.
The poor old Cube! It used to look so fancy and now all this sleek glass has made it look like an ancient relic...
Hey, isn't that the World of Tomorrow building from the '39-'40 World's Fair? Oh no wait, that one actually had interesting design elements and broad appeal.
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