Frank Gehry’s Inception
Reminiscent of the transforming architecture in the movie Inception, Frank Gehry’s Beekman Tower in New York appears to be in motion. The trademark morphing, rippled effect of Gehry’s work is stamped on the 1.1 million square foot Beekman Tower anchoring it as one of the tallest buildings in the city.
Due to open later this year, the nearly completed 76 story residential tower is planted just south of City Hall Plaza and the Brooklyn Bridge. The building will consist of a public elementary school, luxury apartments, a space for New York downtown hospital and an underground public carpark.
Here’s what Gehry said about the tower in a recent interview. “The total cost of our building matches a regular condo. We’re using 50 per cent less cement; we’re making it in fewer days; the concrete is stronger; and we’re building it to be almost identical to the original model. The curtain wall system is integrated with the contractor’s delivery system, so the price for that curtain wall is the same as a flatwall would cost on that same day in New York. My goal is to keep the architect, not the contractor, in the driver’s seat. So this building costs the same price as any dumb old building going up in Manhattan.”
via design boom & azure
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This building was developed by a special friend of our Mayor Bloomberg… If you or I wanted to build here, we would be told:
- It is a low rise historical area
- The streets (Beekamn and Nassau) are narrow, and in case of a major emergency, it would be a death trap
- It would clog the train stations nearby with 2000-3000 thousands new residents
- Oh, YOU wouldn’t get the land, building permit, NOR the taxpayer supported financing.
- You didn’t PROMISE a kindergarten, hospital, etc…. but build 52 story rental building
Interesting that the windows are simply facing different directions, but it’s the exterior body of the building protruding past the windows that gives the twisted illusion, making every apartment’s floor plan slightly unique in its own way. You could truly say that “nobody else has this exact apartment.” Great submission.
It appears that all the windows are flush with each other horizontally and vertically, so the interior walls are all going to be flush too, which would lead to the interior floor plans being the same as others. When you walk into one apartment and then the one next door, they would be the same dimensions inside.
Submitted more than 9 hours ago, on Digg’s front page, and just a handful of comments. Why do we bother with Digg any more?
Its amazing to see, when paper art turn into real world marvel,
luv the different desing
I will surely visit it during my winter NYC visit!!! Looks cool!
Please, this is nothing compared to the buildings they are constructing in Dubai. Those buildings actually move.
That’s interesting, I suppose they did that for better wind resistance.