Ada Louise Huxtable reviews 41 Cooper Square in the Wall Street Journal

Ada Louise Huxtable writes "When a good thing has been around for a while it takes something surprising and preferably controversial to bring it back to center stage... That is clearly the case for the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art and its dramatic new building, a stunning—some would say startling—addition to the 150-year-old institution that has occupied its landmark Foundation Building on Cooper Square since 1859... Rather than looking at it as a historic monument, [Mr. Mayne] sought to emulate its advances in the spirit and character of contemporary New York... To this native New Yorker who has watched the city evolve over decades and treasures its unrelenting diversity, Mr. Mayne has got it just right... This is high architectural drama, a luminous and exhilarating invitation into the structure's life and use. It is not building as bling. It is how architecture turns program and purpose into art. And it perfectly expresses the creative energy of New York."