Gothamist: NY Times (Mostly) Loves Gehry's First Gotham Building

I Like

Sun, 25 Mar 2007 01:47:03 -0500

"Buildings should be in harmony with their surroundings." This contextual argument fails if the surrounding area is blighted. In such a case, context should be fully ignored.

gehry is for lovers

Fri, 23 Mar 2007 11:23:45 -0500

it's on the west side highway in the upper teens or low twenties. it looks like a piece of shit--sno cone is right--the photos in the times article are a complete misrepresentation. if it didn't have gehry's name attached to it, it would be universally ridiculed. also, why is this post just a book report of the times article? shouldn't y'all have taken a look for yourself before this regurgitation?

FOX

Fri, 23 Mar 2007 10:21:00 -0500

where ist the building located? thx

Kevin

Fri, 23 Mar 2007 09:06:27 -0500

Honestly, it wouldn't be so bad if it didn't have that crappy snow-glass on it. As it is, the building is an eyesore. I give them 15 years utnil they rip off the glass and put something else on. Let's pray it turns out to be sooner.

matthew

Thu, 22 Mar 2007 23:50:20 -0500

Looks like cheap crap in person, which fits in just perfectly with 99% of the crap built in this city in the past 5 years. Of course, it could always be worse; note almost any condo project popping up in williamsburg.

Murray Hillster

Thu, 22 Mar 2007 18:19:20 -0500

"wow. gothamist commenters don't like shitty deconstructivist architecture...what a shocker." There. Fixed it for you. In any case, Gothamist commentators are in good company: www.lrb.co.uk/v23/n16/fost01_.html "modern architecture" I don't think you know what that means. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_architecture

blah blah blah

Thu, 22 Mar 2007 17:48:09 -0500

You guys complain about how all the building look the same and how the city is going to turn it a giant mall... blah blah blah. Here's a building that doesn't look the same, it gets people talking, it's very unique and you still complain.

nick

Thu, 22 Mar 2007 17:46:44 -0500

wow. gothamist commenters don't like modern architecture...what a shocker.

Toby

Thu, 22 Mar 2007 17:19:07 -0500

When this POS gets torn down, there will be much rejoicing. Buildings should be in harmony with their surroundings, something Ghery seems not to get. Most of his buildings look like they belong in someplace like Willets Point - filled with junk yards. This crumpled monstrosity would fit in perfectly.

burg

Thu, 22 Mar 2007 17:13:33 -0500

oh iac building, how i love working inside of you.

nisey79

Thu, 22 Mar 2007 17:08:09 -0500

I've never been a fan of this building (or of Gehry's work in general). I think the IAC/NY building looks like a silvery/light blue permutation of a nuclear reactor.

Murray Hillster

Thu, 22 Mar 2007 16:52:45 -0500

I call shenanigans on that picture. I've gone by that structure numerous times and it has never reflected the sky in such a manner from my vantage point. Maybe I need to be a foot away from it and looking directly up the side of the building. This is what it looks like to 99.9% of the world: www.flickr.com/photos/kmikeym/249742509/ (not my photo) Those frosted, two-tone windows and the shape of the building make it look like a sno-cone factory. Or maybe Gehry wanted it to look like Mt. Everest. img.alibaba.com/photo/11441469/Everest_Trek.jpg

me

Thu, 22 Mar 2007 15:36:39 -0500

mt: a cafeteria is a room, not a building. for that matter, he also designed the issey miyake store in tribeca – but that isn't a building either.

MT

Thu, 22 Mar 2007 15:24:15 -0500

Doesn't the Conde Nast cafeteria count as his first New York structure?

park

Thu, 22 Mar 2007 15:14:55 -0500

I work across the street from that building and think its a total eyesore. I used to have such beautiful views of the river and the statue of liberty...