Michael Sporn Animation – Splog

Here’s a shot of the SONY building, which was once the AT&T building.
This is when it was under construction – dead center.

For reference, here’s what it looks like now.
(Pic pulled from AT&T site.)
It was designed by Phillip Johnson.

This and the following images were taken from
SOHO around Green Street.

A pretty mess.

This next group of photos was taken from above
Cooper Union (above), the historically famous Arts school
in Greenwich Village where Third meets Fourth.

Steve was able to get some clear shots of other rooftops
and even another view of the Cooper clock.

Steve writes: The new building at Cooper Union is largely sheathed
with perforated metal panels that act as a sun screen.

The views out to the rooftops of the surrounding buildings thus have
a texture to them that make for some interesting photos, but I would
find annoying as a workplace.

Imagine having a class at Cooper Union, looking out at this.

From a terrace on the building, Steve was able to get
these shots. Here’s looking uptown.

An overburdened rooftop.

On the terrace, there is a ‘green roof’, part of the environmentally
sound design, and a stone eagle that once adorned old Penn Station.

This one, in Queens, shows what many are doing to their modest,
attached brick homes – adding another story, with little regard to the
scale of the neighborhood or how it looks to their adjoining neighbors..

That’s not unlike what happened in San Gimignano,
and we all herald that as great stuff.

And we end in Queens with a something iscious.