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14-651: The Standard, East Village , formerly the Cooper Square Hotel , is a 21-story high-rise luxury hotel located at 25 Cooper Square in Lower Manhattan , New York City . The tower was designed by Carlos Zapata Studio and structurally engineered by Leslie E. Robertson Associates. It has interiors by the Milanese designer Antonio Citterio . The hotel, which opened in December 2008, has 145 rooms and

28-401: A full-tuition scholarship until 2014. Frederick A. Peterson's Cooper Union Foundation Building on the north end of the square, the oldest existing American building framed with steel beams, still stands where it was located when it opened in 1859, but the interior was extensively reconstructed in 1975 not only to modernize it, but also to fulfill one of Cooper's plans which was never realized at

42-422: A new community park in the area. The redesign was completed in 2016. Lafayette Street, Cooper Square, and Fourth Avenue were converted to one-way streets with reduced lanes, and the park in the intersection was expanded. When the square was initially opened as a public space in 1850, it was named "Stuyvesant Square", despite there already being a " Stuyvesant Square " about a half-mile north on Second Avenue . It

56-865: Is a junction of streets in Lower Manhattan in New York City located at the confluence of the neighborhoods of Bowery to the south, NoHo to the west and southwest, Greenwich Village to the west and northwest, the East Village to the north and east, and the Lower East Side to the southeast. Beginning at its southern end where the Bowery crosses East 4th Street , the road then splits in two, both with Cooper Square addresses, until they cross Astor Place between East 8th Street and St. Marks Place and become Fourth Avenue (the western street) and Third Avenue (the eastern street). Prior to

70-584: Is the location of the Narcissa restaurant owned by André Balazs and Chef John Fraser. The Cooper Square Hotel became a Standard Hotel in 2011, and as of 2013 is undergoing renovations. This article about a building or structure in Manhattan is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Cooper Square 40°43′43″N 73°59′26″W  /  40.72861°N 73.99056°W  / 40.72861; -73.99056 Cooper Square

84-534: The 2009 AIA/LA Gold Medal and the 2014 Richard J. Neutra Medal from Cal Poly Pomona College of Environmental Design . Notable works by the firm include: Mayne and Rotondi received numerous awards for their work in Morphosis, including 11 American Institute of Architects awards and 12 from Progressive Architecture . In 1992, the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters awarded them

98-400: The 2014-2016 redesign of the area, the intersection was difficult for pedestrians to navigate. Bowery, Third Avenue and both sides of Cooper Square were two-way streets, and the area was part of a city-approved through-truck route. The New York City Department of Transportation announced plans in 2009 to "normalize" traffic, increase the size of the park in the middle of the square, and create

112-654: The Southern California Institute of Architecture, California Polytechnic State University, Pomona, and the University of California, Los Angeles. Mayne was the recipient of the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2005. Michael Rotondi (b. 1949) was one of 50 students who attended SCI-Arc when it started in 1972. He became the director of the school in 1987, and held that position until 1997. Rotondi's career awards include

126-579: The country's most interesting" architecture firms, and described its very physical, materials-focused design style as "look[ing] as if it might hurt you." Born in Connecticut, Thom Mayne (b. 1944) studied architecture at the University of Southern California and Harvard Graduate School of Design . He was a founding member of the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) in 1972, and has held faculty positions at

140-535: The square on both sides. Notes Morphosis Morphosis Architects is an interdisciplinary architectural and design practice based in Los Angeles and New York City. The firm was informally founded in 1972 by Michael Brickler, Thom Mayne , Livio Santini and James Stafford. Michael Rotondi joined the practice in 1975 and remained a principal until 1991. Writing in 1989, Boston Globe architecture critic Robert Campbell called Morphosis "one of

154-408: The square will be a northbound bus-only lane, from a two-way multi-use roadway. The confusing intersection of the two legs at Fifth Street would become a simple "Village Plaza", with sidewalk extensions and a small amphitheater on the western sidewalk. Finally, Cooper Triangle would be renovated, and expanded to make a new "Cooper Walk" leading up to Cooper Union. New trees would be planted up and down

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168-576: The time: the installation of a round elevator. The exterior of the building was restored in 1999 as well. Downtown of the Foundation Building is a small park, Cooper Triangle, which includes a monument dedicated to Peter Cooper. Across the street, at 41 Cooper Square, is the school's newest building, the New Academic Building , designed by Thom Mayne of Morphosis . The Village Voice ' s old headquarters are on

182-407: The western side of the square, as are classroom buildings of Grace Church School and Kaplan, Inc. The sleek, modern high-rise Cooper Square Hotel at 25 is one of the newest buildings on the square. The New York City Department of Transportation 's "Reconstruction of Astor Place and Cooper Square" plan calls for some changes to be made to Cooper Square beginning in 2013. The western leg of

196-487: Was renamed for Peter Cooper , the 19th Century industrialist and philanthropist, after his death in 1883. In 1853, Cooper had broken ground for Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art , an institution founded on the belief that high-quality education should be available to all who qualified, including women – a radical notion at the time – without cost. It continued to provide every student with

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