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Reflecting New York
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Garth Johnston
Published Mar 4, 2011
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One of our favorite surprises when walking around town is to spot an interesting architectural detail reflected in another building. Lots of people may complain about the glassification of New York's building stock but we'll take the chance to see an otherwise unnoticed detail, perfectly colored sky or beautiful sunset reflected in a new tower over more white brick behemoths any day of the week.
A great example of what we're talking about can be found on the two-year-old Cooper Union building on the Bowery between Fifth and Sixth Streets. If you walk behind the building to the middle of Taras Shevchenko Place, stand exactly in front of the side exit of St. George's Ukrainian Catholic Church (on the East side of the street) and look at Cooper Union—and this only works if you stand right there—you'll see a perfectly framed reflection of the Church's beautiful dome. It's a wonderful touch by architect Thom Mayne of the firm Morphosis and the kind of thing we wish we saw more of in New York buildings.
Above is the Cooper Union reflection along with a few more lovely reflected images from the Gothamist flickr pool. Know of any other reflections of note? Point 'em out in the comments!
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