architetour.com
It’s been nearly 15 years since Frank Gehry unleashed his cartoony vision on the world; the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao opened to the public in 1997. Widely regarded as our most stunning example of deconstructivist architecture, iconic architect Philip Johnson called it "the greatest building of our time". I’ve never seen it, but Gehry’s concert hall up at BARD College is easier to get to and it’s in the same woozy, drunken style.
I visited there a couple years ago and then again, last month.
Now there’s a new one downtown!
Gehry’s 76 story tower at Eight Spruce Street in lower Manhattan is substantially completed as of February 2011 and features a refined version of his signature curvy titanium and glass exterior.
Vanity Fair named Frank Gehry "the most important architect of our age" but I may be a bit less persuaded.
He’s good, no doubt, but I can’t decide if these past 15 years have been a forward looking harbinger of buildings to come?...or...
...a self-indulgent stylistic exercise of incredible expense, eventually a white elephant mired in time alongside better buildings in the future where form follows function once again.
kolbecreative.com
They’re cool, I’ll give him that.
But does “cool” justify an incredible $875 million dollars in only 76 stories?
$12 million a STORY? Come on. Seriously?
the space inside must be hideous
ReplyDeleteActually, the random footprint adds bay windows to all the irregularities and is good looking. You can see the three bedroom here:
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