1.

Not bad. It reminds me a little of Zaha Hadid's Rosenthal Center in Cincy, who I normally do not like.

2.

So at night time the whole sky turns red aswell. That is very cool. I like it.

3.

Where's the nicotine patch student lounge?

4.

i say- cheap derivative of a Koolhaas design for the Paris Library competition several years ago. look it up in SMLXL you'll see what i mean. for their sake, i wish they could pull this one off at a higher level than what is shown now. It would be really nice in that location and give the new school a real presence instead of the crap building there now.

5.

while the rendering looks lovely, it will probably look like a glass walled cube in person.

6.

There will always be some illegal immigrant cleaning person that will leave the lights on in one of the classrooms and destroy the effect of the illuminated circulation space. Unless of course they go with the type glazing that can be made opaque or transparent by passing a low voltage current through the panel.

Nah. They'd never do that.

7.

It also reminds me quite a bit of the Koolhaas design for the Seattle Public Library. But without the fun (and slightly vertigo-inducing) angles.

8.

I've seen this school of architecture before. I believe it's called the "Smoke and Mirror" approach to defining a building's mass and program.

9.

WAY KOOL NEW SKOOL.

I didn't realize until just a few minutes ago that the ribbon that says "THE NEW SCHOOL" is actually one of those continuous message bands like they have at Times Square. When I first saw it, it read "The New School" but after looking at it for a while I am sure they meant "The News School." Clever guys these architects with their tricky renderings.

10.

How about putting retail on the ground floor -- it's 14th Street. The existing building is terrible since it doesn't have any retail and breaks the streetscape. And please not retail for the students -- The New School has already taken over the old Citibank location on the NW corner of 13th and Fifth and the store on the SW corner as well.

11.

Retail,

You are right about retail being the optimum for the ground floor. It's about giving back to the community if New School had their parameters straight.

Do you know what I miss the most about 14th street? There was a furniture store (long gone) located on the north side of the street that offered affordable designer furniture for those on the go. They had real faux black patent leather sectionals and zebra skin throw rugs that the average working man could afford. None of that bland new shit that you see everywhere in magazines today.

But you know what is going to end up on the ground floor if it goes commercial? A Starbucks, a bank branch, and a Duane Reade. Maybe a Radio Shack if things go right.

12.

If you look at the rendering there is a reddish glow at the far end down Fifth Avenue. Oops? If it was meant to be a sunset or twilight they lost it by about ninety degrees. Even at the winter solstice the sun does not set down Fifth Avenue.

Klein,

You are one square guy. The New School is in the business of making money so of course they will either bail out to the chain stores or do nothing at all except perhaps a student center. Which if I remember when I went to school is one of those spaces where they post notices on bulletin boards that no one reads and allows homeless people and druggies to hang out.

13.

Great. That's where all the $30K/year Parsons tuition went. Lovely.

14.

Looks like some of our 3rd year projects mushed into one design...I was wondering what happened to my model. The New School has been talking about developing this site since 1998, atleast...I graduated in '99

15.

How would any of you like to live across the street from this glowing building? Or try to sleep? It sits across the street from several residential buildings, which don't seem to have been taken into account.