# 41 Cooper Square: what's it supposed to resemble? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 26, 2018, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/41-cooper-square-whats-it-supposed-to-resemble/814848 "2018-05-26T05:12:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2018, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/41-cooper-square-whats-it-supposed-to-resemble/814848/1 "2018-05-26T05:12:31Z")
This is about architecture, which is at least part art, so it seems to go in this forum. Is the [41 Cooper Square](https://www.morphosis.com/architecture/4/) 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? ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2018, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/41-cooper-square-whats-it-supposed-to-resemble/814848/2 "2018-05-26T05:27:06Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2018, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/41-cooper-square-whats-it-supposed-to-resemble/814848/3 "2018-05-26T05:34:29Z")
Architects are strange folks. Who knows what they were thinking. It looks like a very large mobile home. After the tornado. ---
**Author:** ![DavidwithanR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3bc359/32.png) [@DavidwithanR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidwithanR)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2018, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/41-cooper-square-whats-it-supposed-to-resemble/814848/4 "2018-05-26T06:39:54Z")
This architectural style is called “CGC”, for Counter-Gravitationally-Copulated. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2018, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/41-cooper-square-whats-it-supposed-to-resemble/814848/5 "2018-05-27T01:09:42Z")
> [@DavidwithanR](#): > > 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. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2018, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/41-cooper-square-whats-it-supposed-to-resemble/814848/6 "2018-05-27T15:17:34Z")
I assume it is a statement about “smashing conventions” or some crap like that. Literally iconoclastic. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2018, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/41-cooper-square-whats-it-supposed-to-resemble/814848/7 "2018-05-27T17:01:04Z")
Apparently, the Frank Gehry architectural psychosis is spreading.