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  Gehry Tower - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gehry Tower is a nine-story building constructed by architect Frank Gehry; it is located at the Steintor, Goethestraße 13a, in Hanover, Germany.
Constructed of stainless steel, the tower is memorable for the noticeable twist in its outer façade on a ferroconcrete core, making optimal use of the relatively small piece of ground on which it is located.
Gehry's office first created a 1:100 model, which was then scanned and imported into CAD software to be able to compute the dimensions for the individual parts, all of which vary in size and shape.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gehry_Tower   (181 words)

  
 Frank Gehry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Frank Owen Gehry, CC (born Ephraim Owen Goldberg in Toronto, Ontario on February 28, 1929) is a Canadian-American architect.
Gehry is best known for his sculptural approach to building design and for constructing curvaceous structures, often covered with reflective metal.
However, in the 2005 documentary film "Sketches of Frank Gehry", Gehry states that the work of the great Finnish architect and designer Alvar Aalto was his greatest inspiration.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Frank_Gehry   (1653 words)

  
 Published Commentary about Benson House by Frank Gehry.
Like so much of Gehry's work, it appears to be a contractor's catastrophe unless one makes the mental effort to disconnect the design from the traditional use of the material from which it is built.
Gehry's restless manipulation of space, his delight in banal materials, his strong sense of collage and improvisational receptivity are, of course, remarkable and often remarked on.
For nearly a decade, Gehry expanded on that theme with a series of works whose raw, geometric forms were composed with the intensity of a child playing with building blocks.
heed.home.igc.org /id1.html   (2814 words)

  
 Guggenheim Museum - Frank Gehry - Projects
Gehry used his customary contextual approach in looking for clues to guide this design, in collaboration with Studio Vlado Milunic, of a modest speculative office building.
The location and Gehry's observations of Prague's "implied towers" and the architectural detail that adorns its buildings were decisive factors in his design.
Urbanistically, the towers play the important role of anchoring the public square and forging a connection to the bridge.
guggenheim.org /exhibitions/past_exhibitions/gehry/nederland_16.html   (213 words)

  
 Civil Engineering Magazine - June 2002   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Frank O. Gehry found inspiration in an Arizona canyon, left, for the interior spaces of the offices and classroom tower, left, of the Peter B. Lewis Building, nearing completion on the campus of Case Western Reserve University.
Gehry's creations have consistently been inspired by movement and the notion of an environment that is constantly evolving.
The towering classroom areas in the center and the public spaces in the front are completely clad with steel shingles.
www.pubs.asce.org /ceonline/ceonline02/0602feat.html   (4422 words)

  
 Hanover - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gehry Tower (post-modern building in the inner city near the Steintor Square)
Hermesturm (steel skeleton tower at the exhibition grounds in Laatzen)
Telemax (new broadcast tower in Hannover-Buchholz, highest building in Hanover)
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hannover   (1219 words)

  
 Guggenheim Museum - Press Office - Frank Gehry, Architect
Gehry's interest in creating a sense of place and his approach to the workspace are evident in his campus for Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, a project that Gehry began in 1978 and remains on going, and the Chiat/Day Building in Venice, California (1985–91).
The varied strategies that Gehry deploys to achieve a dialogue between his buildings and their environments are visible in such diverse designs as his Ustra Office Building in Hannover, Germany (1995–present); the Millennium Park Music Pavilion and Great Lawn in Chicago, Illinois (1999–present); and the Hotel at Marques de Riscal in northern Spain (1998–present).
Gehry received his Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of Southern California in 1954, studied City Planning at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, and opened his first office in Los Angeles in 1962.
www.guggenheim.org /press_releases/release_34.html   (1765 words)

  
 Veritas et Venustas: What's Good For Starchitects Is Good For The World
Because the towers were designed by architects who believed in the importance of the city and the public realm, the towers always met the street respectfully, spatially reinforcing it, and with a pedestrian-scaled base.
The new towers had barren plazas and mechanically repetitive curtain walls with all the charm of graph paper, and even where the towers hold the street wall, their weightless, horizontally-banded curtain walls simply don't shape the street as successfully as the masonry buildings and their vertical accents.
Gehry's 75-story tower — which could not be shown here, because it is still in the earliest stages of design — is conceived as a series of undulating glass panels that hang down over the building's structural frame like flowing drapery.
massengale.typepad.com /venustas/2004/09/ny_towers.html   (5503 words)

  
 PCR: News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Gehry's plan is the latest in a long string of proposals touted by city leaders over the last six decades to improve the area around Bunker Hill.
The 47-story tower would extend downtown's skyline north, a trend that would continue if some of the other towers planned in Phases 2 and 3 are built.
Gehry's building would be the 13th tallest downtown, 20 feet shorter than the 611 Place tower on 6th Street and more than 400 feet shorter than the 73-story U.S. Bank Tower, the West Coast's tallest.
www.pcrnet.com /news_04.24.06_Grand.htm   (1591 words)

  
 Plots & Plans: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum/Frank Gehry Plan for Lower Manhattan's waterfront   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Gehry is widely recognized as the greatest living architect whose combination of plastic, poetic and high-tech designs have broken the rigid hold of rectilinear design that has dominated most modern architecture until very recently.
Gehry's Bilbao Museum has probably attracted more interest and attention than any new building in the world since the Chrysler Building and its silvery spire was unveiled in 1931.
Gehry's recent designs are great sculptural art, imbued with the energy of Kandinsky, the metallic skins of David Smith and Brancusi and the imaginativeness of Piranesi and Gaudi.
www.thecityreview.com /gehry.html   (2543 words)

  
 Ratner's Beekman Street Tower (Gehry) - Page 34 - Wired New York Forum
Gehry is taking his sweet time designing this building, which is a very good thing, he’s a perfectionist and when he is finished and everything is released it will be one hell of a building.
Gehry’s design for the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, has been widely hailed as one of the most important designs of the last century and it catapulted him to the top of the list of the world’s most influential architects.
Gehry also had submitted a design for the new tower for The New York Times, but he subsequently withdrew from that project, so this tower will be his first major project to be built in Manhattan.
www.wirednewyork.com /forum/showthread.php?p=58011   (1290 words)

  
 Frank Gehry, Architect of the Weisman Art Museum
It was Gehry’s ability to address the culture and needs of the University Art Museum that made him the perfect candidate to design the new Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum.
Gehry was awarded the 1989 Pritzker Architecture Prize and in the same year was named a trustee of the American Academy in Rome.
Gehry’s drawings and models, as well as his designs for cardboard and bentwood furniture, fish-shaped lamps, and sculpture have been exhibited in museums around the world.
www.weisman.umn.edu /architecture/gehry.html   (1164 words)

  
 The Real Deal - Gehry tower to be tallest in City Hall area
Gehry tower to be tallest in City Hall area
The Frank Gehry-designed tower on the New York University Beekman Downtown Hospital parking lot will be, at 876 feet, the tallest City Hall area structure.
Forest City Ratner is developing the mixed-use tower, which, despite earlier reports, will be shorter than all the new buildings at Ground Zero.
www.therealdeal.net /breaking_news/2006/05/23/1148401291.php   (70 words)

  
 Gothamist: The New Brooklyn   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Frank Gehry's new design for a 21-acre corridor of high-rise towers anchored by the 19,000-seat Nets arena in Brooklyn may be the most important urban development plan proposed in New York City in decades.
Gehry's MIT design is interesting to look at at first, then gets boring and will become dated the same way we view boring concrete buildings (ie.
Gehry has created some singular buildings but is by no means qualified to level a huge urban swath.
www.gothamist.com /archives/2005/07/05/the_new_brooklyn.php   (4832 words)

  
 Gehry glass tower to rise in Chelsea
A rendering of the IAC project by Frank Gehry between 18th and 19th Sts.
Gehry, a Los Angeles-based architect, has won more than 100 awards from the American Institute of Architects.
In the works is an 11-story Philip Johnson-designed residential tower with a glass facade at 328 Spring St. at the corner of Washington St. planned by developer Nino Vendome.
www.thevillager.com /villager_56/gerhyglasstowestorise.html   (412 words)

  
 50-story Frank Gehry tower for Downtown - UrbanPlanet.org
A proposed residential tower designed by Frank Gehry, which would almost certainly add a twist to the Lower Manhattan skyline, is being considered for tax-exempt financing, the city's Housing Development Corporation said yesterday.
A Gehry tower would add an extra jolt to the future downtown skyline, along with the twisting Freedom Tower and a stack of 45-foot glass apartment cubes at 80 South Street.
Gehry is already working for Forest City Ratner on the proposed Brooklyn arena for the Nets basketball team.
www.urbanplanet.org /forums/index.php?showtopic=3382   (2740 words)

  
 The New York Observer Real Estate: Gehry, Gehry Everywhere...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Gehry said that when he transported the model via airplane from Los Angeles to New York he had to give it a name so it could get its own seat.
If you had seen the bride you would--I fell in love with her." The tower to the right is her husband, and the second shiny one to the left is the man she will have an affair with, according to Gehry.
Gehry said that he and his team spent a lot of time studying Brooklyn and its "body language," in order to make the complex fit in, and also how his children live or have lived in Brooklyn.
therealestate.observer.com /2006/05/gehry-gehry-everywhere.html   (886 words)

  
 üstra AG - Portal Unternehmen - Gehry Tower
One special feature of the Gehry Tower is its high percent-age of usable floor space despite the small size of the plot.
To realise its unique shape, Gehry and his staff went an unusual way: A scale model (approx.
One special feature of the Gehry Tower is its high percentage of usable floor space despite the small size of the plot.
www.uestra.de /eng/136.php   (547 words)

  
 Project Rebirth: Architecture; Cultural Center
Frank Gehry, famous first for the renovation he did on his parents’ house in Santa Monica and famous most recently for his stunning Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, snuck in the back door on the World Trade Center site reconstruction process.
Born in Canada, Gehry is now a resolutely Californian architect in a New York-dominated scene, and has continued to develop his computer-savvy architecture in buildings from the Walt Disney Center in Los Angeles to the Bard College Performing Arts Center.
Gehry has one of the most strongly signature styles of any architect, and his undulating metal forms rippling over typically simpler structures are instantly recognizable.
www.projectrebirth.org /rebuild/architecture/gehry.html   (281 words)

  
 Montjuic Telecommunications Tower by Santiago Calatrava
Aside from its distinctive structural form, the tower is innovative in enclosing the circular platform of microwave dishes, replacing the normal clutter with a serene white arc.
The overall form of the tower is based on a Calatrava sketch of a kneeling figure making an offering.
The orientation of the tower means that the shadow of the central needle on the circular platform acts as a (rather impractical) sundial.
www.galinsky.com /buildings/MontjuicTower   (230 words)

  
 The New York Times   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
BYLINE: By DAVID W. A proposed residential tower designed by Frank Gehry, which would almost certainly add a twist to the Lower Manhattan skyline, is being considered for tax-exempt financing, the city's Housing Development Corporation said yesterday.
If the tower were completed, and depending on when, it would be the first high-rise building by Gehry Partners of Los Angeles.
An article on Tuesday about a proposed residential tower for Lower Manhattan to be designed by Frank Gehry referred incompletely to the earliest publication of details about the project.
www.ctj.org /itep/gjny/rec_nyt_pace_bonds.htm   (513 words)

  
 Divided opposition to East Side Ratner-Gehry tower
Two weeks ago, residents of nearby Southbridge Towers entered into discussions of their own with Ratner that, according to committee members, may undermine the community’s ability to negotiate effectively with the developer.
Nassau St. residents are most interested in securing a plaza between their building and the Ratner building so the new tower will not block their windows, according to sources close to the suit.
The tower’s architect, Frank Gehry, was tapped this week to design the theater cultural building in the new World Trade Center.
www.downtownexpress.com /de_75/dividedopposition.html   (991 words)

  
 Gehry's Downtown Manhattan tower now 75 stories - UrbanPlanet.org
Real estate developer Bruce Ratner announced plans last week to increase the size of his Beekman St. tower from 55 stories to 75 stories, making it the second tallest proposed building in the Downtown skyline after the Freedom Tower, and inciting outrage from local residents and a potential lawsuit from the city council.
Frank Gehry will be the architect, but no renderings of the building have been released.
Goldstein is hoping to set aside 50,000 square feet of space in the new building for a community center for the neighborhood, one with a gym and swimming pool.
www.urbanplanet.org /forums/index.php?showtopic=6226   (1649 words)

  
 The New York Post   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Developer Bruce Ratner plans to use high-wattage architect Frank Gehry to design a 55-story, $210 million luxury apartment tower in lower Manhattan, after signing a deal to buy the site from NYU Downtown Hospital.
Ratner recently tapped Gehry for a proposed Nets basketball stadium with an adjoining office and residential complex in Downtown Brooklyn - but while approval for that deal is still far off, the lower Manhattan project may be closer to becoming a reality.
Gehry is listed as the architect in HDC documents, which estimate the total cost of the project at $210 million.
www.ctj.org /itep/gjny/pace_bonds_post.htm   (260 words)

  
 No Land Grab: Frank Gehry Archives
Gehry buildings, such as Der Neue Zollhof or the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, have become international calling cards for second cities touting their trendiness and "good taste." However, this up-close examination by Project for Public Spaces of Gehry's total lack of a knack for creating viable urban environments, doesn't bode well for Brooklyn.
Gehry's Bad Skin Spreads at IAC HQ Yesterday was a bad skin day at Curbed.com, when the site considered the skin of New York City's first Frank Gehry building with a link to photoblogger Will Femia's shots of the frosted striped glass.
Gehry said his background in urban planning influenced his design of the Nets arena, which is part of developer Bruce Ratner's controversial redesign of the Atlantic Yards in Brooklyn.
www.nolandgrab.org /archives/frank_gehry/index.html   (12622 words)

  
 Canopy Tower in Panama: GUEST COMMENTS 1
They are fine representatives of their country and what you are trying to achieve with the Tower.
I very much appreciated that we were the only group resident at the Tower during the workshop.
I think it was Woody Allen who said half of success is just "showing up." The location of the Tower in that wonderful rainforest in one of the most historically important ornithological study areas in the tropical world makes "showing up" at the Tower almost assure the successful impact of the workshop on the participants.
www.canopytower.com /comments2.htm   (878 words)

  
 Mayor, Silver and Ratner discuss new school’s details
Developer Bruce Ratner agreed to build a five-story school adjacent to the Gehry tower on the parking lot between Beekman, Spruce, Nassau and Gold Sts.
To the west of the school will be a 13,000 square foot plaza which will serve as a buffer for Nassau St. residents who had objected to the tower being too close to their buildings.
Ratner had previously told Downtown Express that Gehry’s initial renderings showed a wavy tower and the developer motioned his hands in the shape of a woman to illustrate his point.
www.downtownexpress.com /de_92/mayorsilver.html   (1051 words)

  
 Tall Buildings MoMA Exhibit - New York Magazine Architecture Review
Some of the 25 groundbreaking towers on exhibit may have been proposed for New York (mainly to replace the Twin Towers), but the critical mass of these innovative buildings, with designs that find logic outside the girdle of the straitlaced structural tube, are offshore.
It’s a single design that develops a new paradigm for a tower of multiple footprints that twist in their upper reaches into Siamese relationships: The towers wrap around their cores, forming continuous floor plates large enough to make a small city organized along a Main Street in the sky.
For instance, the wall texts don’t analyze the growing presence of the computer, which is encouraging formal fluidity in architecture—including the spirals that emerge as a major theme among the buildings shown.
newyorkmetro.com /nymetro/arts/architecture/reviews/9566   (809 words)

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