Copper has a long history in New York -- the Statue of Liberty, the crown of the Woolworth Building -- but it fell out of fashion for a long time until SHoP Architects used it to cover the American Copper Building, a pair of twisting towers on the East River.
Le cuivre a une longue histoire à New York : la statue de la Liberté, la couronne du Woolworth Building... Mais il n’était plus à la mode jusqu’à ce que des architectes l’emploient pour couvrir l’American Copper Building, deux tours sur la East River.