Mayne's design for Cooper Union doesn't fit into the box, but it fits into the East Village.

This article reports that the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York City's East Village recently unveiled schematic designs for its new academic building. Thorn Mayne of Morphosis is creating the ninestory building, which will house the school of engineering and the department of humanities and social sciences.The building will have a glass envelope surrounded by a metal screen that will be operable by studio occupants inside. The building's elevators will stop only on every other floor, so students and faculty will be forced to take the stairs in the atrium and interact with each other. An exhibition at Cooper Union that closed on October 23 illustrated some of Mayne's initial design concepts, and showed that the architect struggled with the building's preset envelope.