49 Bond Street

49 Bond Street

Originally built in 1830 as a Federal style residence, the structure had, by 1880, evolved into a mercantile loft building. In 2010 the building was converted into an urban villa with an attached apartment and two floors of workspace. The artist’s triplex loft is organized around an atrium that passes through the three floors of space, bringing daylight and visual connectivity to the interior reaches of the building. The atrium bridge, diagonally oriented across the vertical core space, connects the north and south terraces of the penthouse. The bridge derives its skewed geometry from a shift in the street grid that occurs at this location.

 

  • Founded by inventor, industrialist and philanthropist Peter Cooper in 1859, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art offers education in art, architecture and engineering, as well as courses in the humanities and social sciences.

  • “My feelings, my desires, my hopes, embrace humanity throughout the world,” Peter Cooper proclaimed in a speech in 1853. He looked forward to a time when, “knowledge shall cover the earth as waters cover the great deep.”

  • From its beginnings, Cooper Union was a unique institution, dedicated to founder Peter Cooper's proposition that education is the key not only to personal prosperity but to civic virtue and harmony.

  • Peter Cooper wanted his graduates to acquire the technical mastery and entrepreneurial skills, enrich their intellects and spark their creativity, and develop a sense of social justice that would translate into action.