New York by Gehry

New York by Frank Gehry (Background building - 8 Spruce Street)

Frank Gehry is perhaps the most celebrated practicing architect in the world today. He has been the recipient of dozens of awards recognizing excellence in architecture including the Pritzker Architecture Prize, which honors "significant contributions to humanity and the built environment through the art of architecture." Over the past five decades, under Gehry's creative direction, Gehry Partners, LLP has designed public and private buildings in North America, Europe, and Asia.

Hallmarks of Gehry's work include a particular focus on creating spaces that are comfortable to the people who use them, and that exist well within the larger context and culture of their location. The firm's approach to design is one in which the client becomes fully engaged in the process, making each project a true collaboration.

THE CURRENT CHALLENGE

Fri Aug 31, 2012

This week's challenge:
'Modern Life'.

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Gehry Building

IAC Building designed by Frank Gehry and completed in 2007. Chelsea, NYC

THE CURRENT CHALLENGE

Fri Jun 08, 2012

This week's challenge:
'Geometric'.

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21st. Century Skyscraper

New York by Gehry at Eight Spruce Street
From the mind of Chicago’s Pritzker Pavilion architect, a sensuous first skyscraper

Frank Gehry’s new 8 Spruce Street apartment tower may be the most delicious piece of eye candy to hit the Manhattan skyline since the Chrysler Building. It is also a very expensive place to live. A 450-square-foot studio rents for at least $2,600 a month, and the asking price for a three-bedroom penthouse apartment is expected to be somewhere around $25,000 a month.

The 76-story high-rise, Gehry’s first skyscraper, is wrapped in a sensuous exterior of stainless steel that ripples like folds of drapery and brilliantly catches the light. There is nothing else quite like it, though the building bears similarities to Jeanne Gang’s spectacularly undulating, 81-story Aqua residential and hotel tower in Chicago.

At 870 feet tall, New York by Gehry is the tallest residential tower in the Western Hemisphere and a singular addition to the iconic Manhattan skyline. For his first residential commission in New York City, master architect Frank Gehry has reinterpreted the design language of the classic Manhattan high-rise with undulating waves of stainless steel that reflect the changing light, transforming the appearance of the building throughout the day.

Gehry's distinctive aesthetic is carried across the interior residential and amenity spaces with custom furnishings and installations.

Last 2 images by Forest City Ratner Companies

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Impressions of Chelsea

Dawn at Chelsea!

Down the river (Hudson)

The Boat

Jersey City from Chelsea Piers

KLAUS VON NICHTSSAGEND GALLERY

Current Exhibition
Jonah Koppel
Towards a New Impending Idiot Utopia

The IAC Building by Frank Gehry

Frank Gehry, is a Canadian American Pritzker Prize-winning architect based in Los Angeles, California.

His buildings, including his private residence, have become tourist attractions. His works are often cited as being among the most important works of contemporary architecture in the 2010 World Architecture Survey, which led Vanity Fair to label him as "the most important architect of our age".

“Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.”

~Frank Gehry

The IAC Building from The High Line

The High Line

The Viewers  (The High Line)

30th Street at 9th Avenue

Norwegian Gem!

Sightless (Ceguera)

Chelsea, a fashionable residential section of southern Manhattan in New York City, on the west side of the city.

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

~ Henry Miller

”Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth."
~Jean-Paul Sartre

There  Is another world and it  is in this one.

~Paul Éluard

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