This is about architecture, which is at least part art, so it seems to go in this forum.
Is the 41 Cooper Square building supposed to resemble anything in particular? Reviews all seem to concentrate on the atrium and other internal things. What, if anything, is the outside of the building intended to bring to mind?
It’s supposed to look weird, out-of-place, asymmetrical, and impractical, because that’s apparently all that architects can do anymore.
I am forced to admit that the inside is pretty dope tho.
Architects are strange folks. Who knows what they were thinking. It looks like a very large mobile home.
After the tornado.
This architectural style is called “CGC”, for Counter-Gravitationally-Copulated.
Ah, took me a while, but I finally figured out what you meant. Yes, that is one interpretation.
Personally, it looks like a box that’s breaking apart.
I assume it is a statement about “smashing conventions” or some crap like that. Literally iconoclastic.
Apparently, the Frank Gehry architectural psychosis is spreading.