Student projects 1: The carbon tower of Manhattan

[Images: I don't know a thing about this project, other than I like it (perhaps minus the green ramp) and that it's described as a "design school, student union, + dormitories" for the New School in Manhattan; I ran across it at Archinect's student projects gallery. If you know anything more – including the designer – be in touch! Meanwhile, I truly believe that if an energetic group of architecture students teamed up with some good writers – BLDGBLOG would surely lend a few – the greatest films ever produced could come out of it. Whole cities – entire planets! – designed down to the subsurface bedrock. Floating cathedrals, cities of carbon, canyons carved from lead walls, auroral coloseums. With Oscar-nominated soundtracks. Films, illustrated books, TV pilots. You'd make millions. Put Archigram to shame...].