Steven Holl's NYU Philosophy

摘要

The New York University Department of Philosophy, by Steven Holl Architects, combines crisply detailed, rigidly rectangular, black and white elements with odd angles, holey walls and fluctuating rainbows inside a soft, curvaceous old masonry building with Romanesque details. Even though the architect is working on enormous mixed-use projects all over the world now, he took a special interest in creating new facilities for the philosophers close to home despite a constricted site and modest budget. Jayne Merkel describes the striking and rather mysterious new spaces in a small-floorplate, six-storey Victorian-era warehouse in Greenwich Village.