some bad photos of some good friends

The party at Sam's for Vittorio. Mar 19, 2010 Thanks to everyone for their stories about Vittorio. Maybe we should do this once every year!

Cultural Center for Cooper Square, New York 1989

Composite of sketches Vittorio made while working with me on this project. The program of a cultural center was to revitalize a once empty site across from Cooper Union and adjacent to Astor Place. The main elongated building (octet-frame forming an inverted tetrahedron) was lifted above the site and supported by a massive concrete frame. Part quad-pod and buttress the frame touched the ground at two points and braced itself against the neighboring building altering the existing construction and rejuvenating the spaces within. A ground-scape replete with octa-frame extended over the streets and connected to pedestrian activity and the subway.