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Cooper Union's Foundation Building is an Italianate brownstone building designed by architect Fred A. Petersen, one of the founders of the American Institute of Architects. It was the first structure in New York City to feature rolled-iron I-beams for structural support; Peter Cooper himself invented and produced these beams. [33]
41 Cooper Square is a nine-story, 175,000-square-foot (16,300 m 2) academic center at Cooper Square, Manhattan, New York City, that houses Cooper Union's Albert Nerken School of Engineering with additional spaces for the humanities, art, and architecture departments.
Located on the northwest corner of the Cooper Union Foundation Building at 7 E 7th Street, this plaque is a historical landmark that notes that Cooper Union provides "free education to all" Cooper Union assessed tuition for the freshman class of 2014, with plans for tuition for future students.
The exterior of the building was restored in 1999 as well. [10] Downtown of the Foundation Building is a small park, Cooper Triangle, which includes a monument dedicated to Peter Cooper. [11] Across the street, at 41 Cooper Square, is the school's newest building, the New Academic Building, designed by Thom Mayne of Morphosis. [12] [13]
The Museum of Broken Windows is a pop-up exhibition organised by the New York State affiliate of the American Civil Liberties Union. [1] Housed within the Cooper Union's Foundation Building on Cooper Square, the project has been displayed twice, first from September 22 through 30, 2018, [2] and then between September 13 and October 8, 2019.
Cooper Union's trustees provided the fourth floor of the Foundation Building. [3] It opened in 1897 as the "Cooper Union Museum for the Arts of Decoration". [4] [5] The museum was free and open to the public three days a week. [2] [6] The Hewitt sisters donated some of the objects that they owned to the museum. [7]
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The Cooper Union moved to terminate RFR's ground lease of the Chrysler Building in September 2024, and RFR sued the college to prevent the termination of its lease. [261] [265] In its lawsuit, RFR claimed that the Cooper Union had driven away some tenants and had directed other tenants to make rent payments to the college rather than to RFR. [266]