In 2009 a spaceship landed in the middle of old New York. At 41 Cooper Square, Thom Mayne's iconic building shines like a diamond in the rough, transparent, light, and extremely cool. As an architect, Thom Mayne ( b.1944) is fascinated with imperfection, he says: “I have a preference for rough architecture, real, inexpensive, unfinished”.

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