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hunser
Jan 10, 2011, 11:38 AM
^^ well, the hoist is still there as i saw it with my own eyes. :D

^ :order: Enough.


http://www.newyorkbygehry.com/

yV_bAFVBh60

wow, what a superb vid. thanks for posting that! :cheers:

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NYguy
Jan 11, 2011, 2:31 PM
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NYguy
Jan 12, 2011, 5:36 PM
JANUARY 11, 2011

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http://www.bluemelon.com/photo/18586/1080793.jpg


2.
http://www.bluemelon.com/photo/18586/1080794.jpg


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http://www.bluemelon.com/photo/18586/1080795.jpg


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http://www.bluemelon.com/photo/18586/1080796.jpg


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http://www.bluemelon.com/photo/18586/1080801.jpg


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http://www.bluemelon.com/photo/18586/1080802.jpg

Obey
Jan 12, 2011, 10:55 PM
I don't mind the base.

NYguy
Jan 13, 2011, 2:46 AM
^ Considering its just a school, it's not bad at all, and doesn't detract from the building. It probably would have been interesting to see the facade reach street level, but I'm fine with it as is.

nycdagreatest
Jan 18, 2011, 1:06 AM
I just made a model of this building in google sketchup......I hope it gets accepted:fingerscrossed:
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Obey
Jan 18, 2011, 1:33 AM
^^^ I wouldn't doubt it. Great model!

hunser
Jan 18, 2011, 1:04 PM
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JSsocal
Jan 23, 2011, 1:04 AM
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5009/5378518421_aeb46a25a0_b.jpg

My photostream: http://www.flickr.com/photos/34734039@N04/

Fabb
Jan 23, 2011, 8:32 AM
Very nice photo !
The composition is harmonious ... three strata and a few vertical lines that form a dramatic skyline.

QuarterMileSidewalk
Jan 23, 2011, 8:51 AM
^Agreed, plus that pic just has "Classic New York" written all over it.

JSsocal
Jan 23, 2011, 4:54 PM
One more shot I had. I'm surprised we don't get more pics from the Empire State Building.
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patriotizzy
Jan 23, 2011, 11:46 PM
^^^^ My new wallpaper. Thanks!

Obey
Jan 24, 2011, 12:42 AM
It's beautiful

mrnyc
Jan 24, 2011, 1:36 AM
any guesses when the scaffolding is coming down?

uaarkson
Jan 24, 2011, 3:20 AM
Who knows. It'll be down when they're finished fitting-out the apartments.

NYguy
Jan 24, 2011, 6:46 PM
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colemonkee
Jan 24, 2011, 7:00 PM
I'm surprised we don't get more pics from the Empire State Building.

Probably because you need a really good long lens and a clear day, both of which you nailed right on the head.

huggkruka
Jan 25, 2011, 8:29 AM
It's such a classy design. Like someone had a fever dream about art deco. :D

Fabb
Jan 25, 2011, 9:37 AM
It's so nice that I wish there were half a dozen of them in a single area... like a Rockefeller Center or a World Financial Center - Ghery style.

hunser
Jan 30, 2011, 7:44 PM
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arkitekte
Jan 30, 2011, 10:21 PM
This is one sexy ass building, and that's a badass picture^^^^.

hunser
Jan 31, 2011, 11:51 AM
^^ i'm curious if beekman will win the emporis skyscraper award...

NYC4Life
Feb 1, 2011, 6:23 PM
^^^ It definitely should, probably the only truly unique skyscraper built anywhere in the last year.

Phil McAvity
Feb 1, 2011, 6:39 PM
yeah, i'd be surprised if it doesn't.

JDRCRASH
Feb 1, 2011, 6:55 PM
Man there's something about that last picture that is so Gotham-like! :yes:

jackster99
Feb 1, 2011, 8:16 PM
I'm not sure if this video has been posted yet or not. It takes awhille to load, or at least it did for me, but believe me, its worth it.

http://www.newyorkbygehry.com/?source=curbed_player_box

patriotizzy
Feb 1, 2011, 8:59 PM
I'm not sure if this video has been posted yet or not. It takes awhille to load, or at least it did for me, but believe me, its worth it.

http://www.newyorkbygehry.com/?source=curbed_player_box

Yup, has been posted before :P

Obey
Feb 1, 2011, 10:06 PM
Man there's something about that last picture that is so Gotham-like! :yes:

Well, it is Gotham ;)

Coldrsx
Feb 1, 2011, 10:37 PM
Personally I find the building quite meh.

CoolCzech
Feb 1, 2011, 11:06 PM
Tony Shi. (http://www.flickr.com/photos/tonyshi/)
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I'm getting really tired of photos with bizarre photoshopped color schemes. It doesn't look real, just weird. People should try their hand at actually learning photography, and give their pc mouse a break.

NYguy
Feb 2, 2011, 3:23 PM
Something about this skyline shot shows the tower in just the right location...

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Obey
Feb 2, 2011, 9:16 PM
Yes, it looks great right there. you dont realize how far inland it is until you see shots like these

Edit: you can also see the 1WTC cranes!!

tommaso
Feb 2, 2011, 10:09 PM
So, is the timeline for opening day at Beekman's PS still Fall 2015?

QuarterMileSidewalk
Feb 3, 2011, 12:52 AM
I'm getting really tired of photos with bizarre photoshopped color schemes. It doesn't look real, just weird. People should try their hand at actually learning photography, and give their pc mouse a break.

I think that the idea is just to create a specific mood with the image, much like the way lighting is used in films. A lot of people like the funky effects because it helps you see the subject a little bit differently from how it's normally portrayed. It's not supposed to look real. It's expressive. Plus, I think it's just a trend. I suspect it will much less popular after a few more years.

Of course, Beekman's pretty funky as it is.:rolleyes:

Obey
Feb 3, 2011, 1:05 AM
^^^ Well put

NYguy
Feb 4, 2011, 5:03 AM
So, is the timeline for opening day at Beekman's PS still Fall 2015?

I believe so, assuming everything stays the way it is.
http://www.dnainfo.com/20101027/downtown/city-delays-opening-sixth-grade-at-spruce-street-school-for-four-years

LanvinHomme
Feb 5, 2011, 12:07 AM
I love it! its as if it were alive and moving! wish this one was in Chicago :(
so jealous!

bunky
Feb 7, 2011, 5:30 PM
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NYguy
Feb 10, 2011, 8:12 AM
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/10/arts/design/10beekman.html?ref=nyregion

Downtown Skyscraper for the Digital Age

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2011/02/10/arts/10beekman-span/10beekman-span-popup-v2.jpg

By NICOLAI OUROUSSOFF
February 9, 2011

Many New Yorkers have been following the construction of the new residential tower at 8 Spruce Street, just south of City Hall, with a mix of awe and trepidation.

Frank Gehry, the building’s architect, has had a rough time in this city. His first commission here, years ago, was for an Upper East Side town house that was never built; his client, an oil heiress, fired him over Champagne and strawberries. A more recent foray, the massive Atlantic Yards development in Brooklyn, drew the ire of local activists, who depicted him as an aging liberal in bed with the devil — a New York City real estate developer.

The Spruce Street project (formerly called Beekman Tower) would not only be Mr. Gehry’s first skyscraper, but it was also being built for the same developer, Bruce Ratner. And as the tallest luxury residential tower in the city’s history, it seemed to epitomize the skyline’s transformation from a symbol of American commerce to a display of individual wealth.

Only now, as the building nears completion, is it possible to appreciate what Mr. Gehry has accomplished: the finest skyscraper to rise in New York since Eero Saarinen’s CBS building went up 46 years ago. And like that tower, and Philip Johnson’s AT&T (now Sony) building after it, 8 Spruce Street seems to crystallize a particular moment in cultural history, in this case the turning point from the modern to the digital age.

The tower, 76 stories high and clad in a rumpled stainless-steel skin, stands at the northern edge of the financial district on a tight lot hemmed in by one-way streets. The Pace University building, a wide, Brutalist-style structure completed in 1970, cuts it off from the rest of the city to the north; just beyond are the spaghettilike access ramps of the Brooklyn Bridge. To the east, across City Hall Park, are two early landmarks of skyscraper design, Cass Gilbert’s 1913 Woolworth building and McKim, Mead & White’s 1912 Municipal building.

Mr. Gehry’s design is least successful at the bottom, where he was forced to plant his tower on top of a six-story base that will house a new public grammar school and one floor of hospital services — an odd coupling of private and public interests that was a result of political horse trading rather than any obvious benefit that would be gained from so close a relationship between the two.

The school is clad in conventional orange brick, with heavy steel frame windows that give it the look of a converted factory. Its main facade, with a glass-fronted lobby facing William Street to the east, is relatively straightforward, but it’s a letdown after you’ve seen the gorgeously wrought exterior of the tower above. (Mr. Gehry did not design the interiors of the school, which is still under construction, and students may ask why the pampered young professionals living above them get to live in apartments designed by an architectural superstar while they will have to make do with a no-name talent.)

Not surprisingly, the two groups won’t be mixing. Residents will enter through a covered drive that cuts through the block along the building’s western side. Framed by massive brick pillars and a glass-enclosed lobby, the space’s generous proportions will accommodate taxis and limousines ferrying people in and out of the building, making it feel more like a luxury hotel than a classic Manhattan apartment building.

None of this matters much, however, once you see the tower in the skyline, a view that seems to lift Lower Manhattan out of its decade-long gloom. The building is particularly mesmerizing from the Brooklyn waterfront, where it’s possible to make out one of the deep setbacks that give the building its reassuringly old-fashioned feel. In daylight the furrowed surfaces of the facades look as if they’ve been etched by rivulets of water, an effect that is all the more dramatic next to the clunky 1980s glass towers just to the south. Closer up, from City Hall Park, the same ripples look softer, like crumpled fabric.

(The flat south facade is comparatively conventional, and some may find perverse enjoyment in the fact that the building presents its backside to Wall Street.)

The power of the design only deepens when it is looked at in relation to Gilbert’s Woolworth building. A steel frame building clad in neo-Gothic terra-cotta panels, Gilbert’s masterpiece is a triumphant marriage between the technological innovations that gave rise to the skyscraper and the handcrafted ethos of an earlier era.

Mr. Gehry’s design is about bringing that same sensibility — the focus on refined textures, the cultivation of a sense that something has been shaped by a human hand — to the digital age. The building’s exterior is made up of 10,500 individual steel panels, almost all of them different shapes, so that as you move around it, its shape is constantly changing. And by using the same kind of computer modeling that he used for his Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, more than a decade ago, he was able to achieve this quality at a close to negligible increase in cost.

But Mr. Gehry is also making a statement. The building’s endlessly shifting surfaces are an attack against the kind of corporate standardization so evident in the buildings to the south and the conformity that it embodied. He aims, as he has throughout his career, to replace the anonymity of the assembly line with an architecture that can convey the infinite variety of urban life. The computer, in his mind, is just a tool for reasserting that variety...

SLIDE
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/02/10/arts/design/architecture-review-.html?ref=design

hunser
Feb 10, 2011, 11:32 AM
^ as time passes by more and more "ordinary" people (≠ skyscraper enthusiasts) will notice and appreciate the beekman. and soon it will appear as the tower always belonged to lower manhattan.

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pico44
Feb 10, 2011, 3:31 PM
I'm not entirely sure why, but I just can't stand Nicolai Ouroussoff. And it's only partially because I very frequently disagree with him. Even the glowing review of this building--with which everyone will likely concur in premise--was painful to read. Part of it is because he seems so desperately in love with his native Los Angeles. Don't get me wrong, preferring LA over NYC is absolutely fine, people think all kinds of crazy things; but it isn't fine for the New York Times architecture critic. Also, his arguments suck. Best building since Saarinen's CBS tower? OK sure, (even though you work in the actual answer Mr. Ouroussoff) but then you immediately go on to make only a cursory comment towards the elephant in the room, the giant flat side. I'm not saying that the southside shear wall cannot be reconciled with the other seven side's sublimnity, but some work has to be done. Work by a critic with talent preferably.

tdawg
Feb 10, 2011, 4:26 PM
There are so many horrible 60s-70s era buildings downtown (looking at you 55 Water). 8 Spruce is a much-needed dose of flair. It'll fit nicely in with the new WTC once they are all finished.

kickser
Feb 10, 2011, 5:14 PM
^^ i Hope that they will replace those ugly boxes sometime with granter buildings.

SkyscrapersOfNewYork
Feb 11, 2011, 4:15 AM
There are so many horrible 60s-70s era buildings downtown (looking at you 55 Water). 8 Spruce is a much-needed dose of flair. It'll fit nicely in with the new WTC once they are all finished.

why does everyone pick on 55 water street (and friends):haha: theres worst things on Beekman street alone or look at the low income housing between the bridges now thats bad.

JACKinBeantown
Feb 11, 2011, 6:38 PM
MSNBC video about the tower.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/41529531#41529531

patriotizzy
Feb 11, 2011, 7:57 PM
MSNBC video about the tower.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/41529531#41529531

Very nice video, made me smile :)

Thanks.

NYguy
Feb 11, 2011, 11:08 PM
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-02-11/gehry-s-875-million-tower-ripples-over-lower-manhattan-james-s-russell.html

Gehry's $875 Million Tower Ripples Over Lower Manhattan

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/data?pid=avimage&iid=iN19ySwhhB_c___http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/data?pid=avimage&iid=iPlPBgAE4Wxw


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James S. Russell
Feb 11, 2011

At 8 Spruce Street, just east of City Hall Park in Lower Manhattan, I stared up at a 76-story wall of stainless-steel panels and bay windows that rippled and curled like a zipper run amok.

No mysterious force sideswiped the walls. Los Angeles Architect Frank Gehry, 81, designed the 903-unit rental apartment building that way. At 870 feet, it is by a nose New York’s tallest residential building.

Developer Forest City Ratner Cos., notorious for the controversial Atlantic Yards megaproject (where Gehry was once the architect), will start signing leases this month on the first completed apartments. The topmost apartments won’t be ready until 2012.

In contrast to the dumb, boxy towers clad in murky glass that have defaced New York City’s skyline during the past decade, Gehry has produced a gawky beauty that captures the open-ended energy of the city. It fascinates rather than ravishes.

I moved a good distance back, gazing at that glittering rumpled surface from the Brooklyn Bridge. In the stretched wedding-cake profile I see a bit of Rockefeller Center romance struggling to get out. Gehry slims the tower so that it frames the surroundings rather than obliterating them.

The building is most powerful close up, where its draping creases evoke veins pulsing beneath the smooth surface -- a cockeyed echo of nearby 19th-century facades covered with pistoning columns and muscular cornice brackets. The surface has a willful strangeness in the mold of the Barcelona mystic Antoni Gaudi.

The tower rises from a chunky new five-story orange-brick public elementary school of utter blandness that deserved more architectural energy. It will open next fall.

The school was part of a complex development deal orchestrated by the New York State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver. Gehry designed and Forest City Ratner built the shell of the school. The architect Swanke Hayden Connell is fitting out the $65 million interior. The great height is thanks to air rights sold by the adjacent Downtown Hospital.

The tower was financed when markets were crashing and at one time it looked as if it would rise only 38 stories. Its $875 million cost benefited from $204 million in government-backed post-9/11 Liberty Bonds.

I had feared the building’s great size would cast the surrounding streets into gloom. Yet a recent late-afternoon visit revealed that the reflective surface and deep setbacks draw light in. Two small tree-shaded plazas will bring patches of desperately needed greenery.

Though the rippling exterior suggests apartments laid out in lava-lamp blobs, you mostly get a familiar functionality. (Gehry’s firm laid out the units, which is both fortunate and a rarity. Almost every developer hires from a triumvirate of specialist local firms that favor inexplicable mazelike plans or highway-hotel dreariness.)

The plans, ranging from studios (lower floors start at $2,600 monthly) to two-bedroom units (from $5,895), are unpretentiously appointed and gracious if not spacious. The exterior curves scallop the rooms, which loosens them up pleasingly. Some of the large glass expanses kink in and some kink out to form bay windows, one of the great architectural inventions almost never used in New York.

There’s plenty of city on view: the Gothic extravagance of the Woolworth Building, the gold-statued grandeur of the Municipal Building, an assortment of East River bridges, and your choice of Lower Manhattan or Midtown skylines.

The high units are more generous but you won’t find the hanger-sized living rooms and pools set into outdoor terraces of late-boom condos. You won’t even get a balcony. Prices at this level have yet to be set but $15,000 isn’t unlikely.

Self-appointed style cops decry Gehry’s fanciful architecture as the gaudy emblem of the last decade’s excess. Yet nothing about this tower is gratuitous. It shows how to put a very large building into a heavily built-up city.

JACKinBeantown
Feb 12, 2011, 12:30 AM
Very nice video, made me smile :)

Thanks.

You're welcome.

tdawg
Feb 12, 2011, 7:33 PM
Cuz 55 Water is the largest building in the city by floor space. It's a hulk, and an unattractive one at that. I went to J&R this morning and coming up out of the 4/5 train at City Hall, 8 Spruce just wows you.

hunser
Feb 13, 2011, 2:04 PM
a bit old but still worth it...

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NYguy
Feb 13, 2011, 2:18 PM
a bit old but still worth it...

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That would look great hanging on the wall.

hunser
Feb 13, 2011, 6:08 PM
^^ definitely! :yes: and even more so because of the woolworth building in the background.

Obey
Feb 13, 2011, 8:47 PM
The Beekman looks beautiful in black and white

NYC4Life
Feb 14, 2011, 8:14 PM
Curbed NY

Frank Gehry's 76-Story Tower Now Renting at $2,630 and Up
Monday, February 14, 2011, by Joey Arak

http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2011/02/14/frank_gehrys_76story_tower_now_renting_at_2630_and_up.php

http://ny.curbed.com/uploads/2011_2_beekmanpr2.jpg

The raves are in and now it's time for the renting to begin! Frank Gehry's 76-story tower of rippling steel at 8 Spruce Street, referred to by some as the best new New York City skyscraper in decades but officially being marketed as "the tallest residential building in the Western Hemisphere," is open for business. Formerly the Beekman Tower, now New York by Gehry, the 870' tall building has a 37th floor rental gallery and 18 studio, one- and two-bedroom model apartments on view by appointment only. Call 212-877-2220 to be one of the first to check out those bay windows in the City Hall region's new steel-clad slab of starchitecture. Citi Habitats Marketing Group and Nancy Packes, Inc. are leading the leasing and marketing.

The building has 903 total apartments that start on the seventh floor, and over 200 layouts to choose from. Rents start at $2,630 for studios, $3,580 for one-bedrooms and $5,945 for two-bedrooms. Much has been made of the building's shape and the involvement of the legendary architect, but what can tenants expect once they've moved into the place, other than those views? Lots of fun in the Lower Manhattan sun.

http://ny.curbed.com/uploads/2011_2_gehrypr2.jpg

Here's the amenities rundown:

Residents of New York by Gehry will have exclusive access to a 24-hour doorman, a porte cochère for vehicles, a full-service concierge, and 22,000 square feet of health, wellness, social, and entertainment amenity spaces. A 6th floor Grilling Terrace with stunning views of the Woolworth building is outfitted with dining cabanas, picnic tables and café seating. The adjacent Game Room is furnished with custom seating by Frank Gehry. On the 7th floor, a 50-foot swimming pool in a sky-lit space is surrounded by fully-retracting glass doors, creating a seamless expanse of indoor and outdoor spaces that includes a wraparound sundeck.

Overlooking City Hall Park to the north, a large Drawing Room with a grand piano is adjacent to a Private Dining Room. Both can be reserved for resident events and serviced from a Chef’s Demonstration and Catering Kitchen. A Spa Treatment Suite and state-of-the-art Fitness Center with views of the Brooklyn Bridge are located on the 7th floor. The 8th floor offers Group Fitness, Pilates and Private Training Studios as well as a Library, a Tweens' Den, a Children’s Playroom, and a Screening Room with Gehry-designed amphitheatre seating.

Yep, NYC now has what must be the world's first Frank Gehry-designed Tweens' Den. Surely that must impress Donald Trump! For those already out their doors to get a peek inside the Beek, send your early impressions to tips@curbed.com.

dr_strangelove
Feb 15, 2011, 6:17 AM
This building has a very awkward appearance- not the skin, I like that- but the overall massing and shape and the flat roof that just seems to come to a dead end. I prefer the overall look and dimensions of Aqua in Chicago.

NYguy
Feb 15, 2011, 1:57 PM
http://www.observer.com/2011/real-estate/you-can-finally-rent-piece-new-york-gehry

You Can Finally Rent a Piece of New York... by Gehry, That Is

http://www.observer.com/files/full/NY_by_Gehry_Apartment.jpg

By Matt Chaban
February 14, 2011

Much has been made of the fact that Frank Gehry's spetacular apartment tower at 8 Spruce Street boasts hundreds of different facade panels to create its unusual rippling exterior. Less known is that all those curves in the building now known as New York by Gehry also create more than 200 different apartment layouts within the 903-unit, 76-story tower.

About 100 of those apartments are now, after months of waiting, finally for rent, at prices that are anticipated to break records in the city's rental market. Simple studios—is anything simple where Gehry is concerned?—start at $2,630-per-month, one-bedrooms are $3,580, and two-bedrooms $5,945.

A new rental gallery has just opened on the 37th floor, and renters will be able to tour 18 different model units.

"We knew that Frank's first-ever tower would transform the city's skyline, and felt it was critical that the entire building bear the indelible Frank Gehry imprint," developer Bruce Ratner said in a release. "We're thrilled we were able to realize Frank's vision and achieve a level of excellence that raises the bar."

hunser
Feb 15, 2011, 2:07 PM
i noticed the title change, what a pity. beekman tower sounds way cooler than ny by gehry. even 8 spruce street is better!

Busy Bee
Feb 15, 2011, 2:23 PM
"New York by Gehry" ?

= lame.

I wouldn't want this name any more than "Central Park by Stern" or "Moma Tower by Nouvel." An architects name AFAIC should never be in the title of their building. Dissapointing that Gehry didn't insist not to name it this.

NYguy
Feb 15, 2011, 2:45 PM
Still beautiful by any name...

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ThisSideofSteinway
Feb 15, 2011, 3:24 PM
Is it a fragrance now, or is that just the promotional gift you get when you sign on the dotted line?

NYguy
Feb 15, 2011, 3:32 PM
Is it a fragrance now, or is that just the promotional gift you get when you sign on the dotted line?

It's the gift we all get when we gaze at the lower Manhattan skyline.


Here's the view many people don't like, but I have no problem with...

dracosbana (http://www.flickr.com/photos/centipede/5446786775/sizes/l/in/photostream/)

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Haworthia
Feb 15, 2011, 5:23 PM
Even the "boring" side has very nice massing. I particularly like the setbacks. And for anyone whom wishes to complain about that view, just look to your right at what I believe is the Verizon building. That building is a perpetual act of violence against the eyes.

QuarterMileSidewalk
Feb 16, 2011, 6:37 AM
I think I would like the south side more if the window patterns were symmetrical. But that is my only complaint about the building. Okay, and it really does deserve a better name, too. Not that I'm clever enough to come up with one.

Aleks
Feb 16, 2011, 7:10 AM
i think beekman sounded great. why the change?

and 'by ghery' is probably a publicity stunt. i don't think ghery would request something like that. i'm a bit surprised he didn't fight the name, but oh well.

NYguy
Feb 16, 2011, 4:34 PM
i think beekman sounded great. why the change?

and 'by ghery' is probably a publicity stunt. i don't think ghery would request something like that. i'm a bit surprised he didn't fight the name, but oh well.

It's still the Beekman for me. I think 8 Spruce Street alone wasn't "sexy" enough for marketers, and not a name that fits what many (including myself) believe to be the best building built in decades in the City. But it's Gehry's (and Ratner's) gift to the City, so the name is ok. Everone will come to know that "Gehry buildng" Downtown. I don't think the average person will remember 8 Spruce Street, which it still is btw.

http://www.newyorkbygehry.com/



http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/new-york-by-gehry
‘New York by Gehry' is a Massive Residential Eco Tower

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‘New York by Gehry’ is a monumental 76-story residential skyscraper in New York City that is officially the tallest building of its kind in the western hemisphere.

Just as important as its landmark height, however, is the fact that ‘New York’ by Gehry utilizes some modest (but still important) green innovations such as greywater recyling and energy-efficient appliances. These are not game-changing eco-friendly implements, but it is nevertheless encouraging that a project of this size, scale, and significance has made incorporating some green design elements a priority.

MolsonExport
Feb 16, 2011, 5:03 PM
Wow. A gorgeous Gehry building. I usually hate Gehry stuff (tinfoil balls, esp).

hunser
Feb 16, 2011, 5:12 PM
It's still the Beekman for me.
+1. :tup:


http://www.newyorkbygehry.com/


the vid shown in the beginning gets me everytime. :slob:

hunser
Feb 16, 2011, 6:39 PM
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Obey
Feb 16, 2011, 9:30 PM
That damn hoist is still there

patriotizzy
Feb 17, 2011, 12:40 AM
^^^^ Spring cleaning?

NYCLuver
Feb 17, 2011, 4:34 AM
February 16th, 2011

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NYguy
Feb 17, 2011, 6:52 AM
mavmeldrum (http://www.flickr.com/photos/11052246@N03/)


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patriotizzy
Feb 18, 2011, 4:40 AM
I really like the last black and white picture. Such an elegant beauty she is.

NYC2ATX
Feb 18, 2011, 6:06 AM
NYCLuver, I love your pictures :)

NYCLuver
Feb 18, 2011, 6:12 AM
Thanks guys, appreciate the compliments! I walk around tirelessly and take pictures all for you. :D

hunser
Feb 18, 2011, 11:30 AM
^^ and it's highly appreciated. :tup: let's hope for some warm weather (chances are good), so we can watch you do the big tour. :D

NYguy
Feb 18, 2011, 12:15 PM
Is it a fragrance now, or is that just the promotional gift you get when you sign on the dotted line?

If they decided to market it like a fragrance, this would be a great photo...

Anna the Russian Spy (http://www.flickr.com/photos/polka_dot_robot/5452903311/sizes/l/in/photostream/)

New York by Gehry
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hunser
Feb 18, 2011, 5:49 PM
beekman tower made it on the frontpage of the german magazine DER SPIEGEL! :notacrook:

http://www.spiegel.de/

http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/gesellschaft/0,1518,746246,00.html

there are some mistakes about the height differences between beekman and woolworth and other stuff in that article...

some nice pics (20 in total): http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/fotostrecke-64789.html

http://www.spiegel.de/images/image-181257-galleryV9-vtig.jpg

http://www.spiegel.de/images/image-181259-galleryV9-sjim.jpg

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http://www.spiegel.de/images/image-181851-galleryV9-qxqn.jpg

QuarterMileSidewalk
Feb 19, 2011, 7:22 AM
That building is such a nice thing to look at!

sterlippo1
Feb 19, 2011, 11:10 AM
mavmeldrum (http://www.flickr.com/photos/11052246@N03/)


http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5138/5449231694_836678c4ba_b.jpg

i love this shot, can you say density?

Lecom
Feb 19, 2011, 5:52 PM
http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/new-york-by-gehry
‘New York by Gehry' is a Massively Lame Name


True that.

i love this shot, can you say density?

Speaking of density, that shot shows how much developable space there still is around Beekman, as opposed to the densely built up Wall Street core, Battery Park City and mostly historically protected Tribeca. Northeast Downtown and Greenwich South are Downtown's current frontiers.

Zerton
Feb 19, 2011, 6:32 PM
I've warmed up to this. Especially after seeing it in person and seeing the lobby.

James2390
Feb 20, 2011, 5:17 AM
This is incredible. How did I not notice this?

sterlippo1
Feb 20, 2011, 10:53 AM
This is incredible. How did I not notice this?

good question ;) i adore this tower

NYguy
Feb 20, 2011, 3:27 PM
beekman tower made it on the frontpage of the german magazine DER SPIEGEL! :notacrook:

http://www.spiegel.de/

http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/gesellschaft/0,1518,746246,00.html

there are some mistakes about the height differences between beekman and woolworth and other stuff in that article...

some nice pics (20 in total): http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/fotostrecke-64789.html

http://www.spiegel.de/images/image-181257-galleryV9-vtig.jpg

http://www.spiegel.de/images/image-181259-galleryV9-sjim.jpg

http://www.spiegel.de/images/image-181261-galleryV9-iqpx.jpg

http://www.spiegel.de/images/image-181873-galleryV9-jald.jpg

http://www.spiegel.de/images/image-181872-galleryV9-dyms.jpg

http://www.spiegel.de/images/image-181870-galleryV9-cfxn.jpg

http://www.spiegel.de/images/image-181869-galleryV9-lpfx.jpg

http://www.spiegel.de/images/image-181867-galleryV9-cygs.jpg

http://www.spiegel.de/images/image-181863-galleryV9-dxkx.jpg

http://www.spiegel.de/images/image-181862-galleryV9-kefm.jpg

http://www.spiegel.de/images/image-181861-galleryV9-scqc.jpg

http://www.spiegel.de/images/image-181860-galleryV9-hnnh.jpg

http://www.spiegel.de/images/image-181858-galleryV9-rnzm.jpg

http://www.spiegel.de/images/image-181856-galleryV9-doqu.jpg

http://www.spiegel.de/images/image-181854-galleryV9-ofqh.jpg

http://www.spiegel.de/images/image-181851-galleryV9-qxqn.jpg

Excellent. New York by Gehry indeed. Now if we could just get New York by Kaufman..;)


More pics at the website...
http://www.newyorkbygehry.com/

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.

That residential thing should be clarified though.

hunser
Feb 23, 2011, 1:41 PM
^^
Now if we could just get New York by Kaufman..

fine with me, as long as it's sexy. :D

speaking of sexy, meet the beauty and ... the beauty! :cool:

Alessandro Mari - 2photographers (http://www.flickr.com/photos/marialessandro/)

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patriotizzy
Feb 23, 2011, 7:12 PM
Great set of pictures. Beekman is a model for the skyscraper world :P

whiteford
Feb 23, 2011, 8:38 PM
this and the bow in calgary are my two favorite skyscrapers that are underconstruction right now. two great visionaries(Foster,Gehry), two great skyscapers. the towers are very different from each other but they are world class, works of art. i would be happy if both win skyscraper of the year. The Bow will be compleated in 2012. when will this tower be finished?

hunser
Feb 23, 2011, 8:48 PM
this and the bow in calgary are my two favorite skyscrapers that are underconstruction right now. two great visionaries(Foster,Gehry), two great skyscapers. the towers are very different from each other but they are world class, works of art. i would be happy if both win skyscraper of the year. The Bow will be compleated in 2012. when will this tower be finished?

this year. they still have to do some interior work before opening the tower for rent.

hunser
Feb 25, 2011, 11:22 AM
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lukeit
Feb 25, 2011, 8:19 PM
Fantastic condo. i like the color.

patriotizzy
Feb 25, 2011, 9:41 PM
God dang. These last pictures are some of the best yet.

craner
Feb 26, 2011, 6:33 AM
Great pictures!
I really like the ones taken from the top as they put this beauty in context. :tup:

Dallas
Feb 26, 2011, 5:27 PM
Great pics man. However, and I am sure this has been addressed by someone at some time on the forum; but I just need to throw something out there to the whole skyscraper world. Can somebody please ........... PLEASE ......... P L E A S E ......... re-clad that Verizon building!! :sly:

sterlippo1
Feb 26, 2011, 6:03 PM
Great pics man. However, and I am sure this has been addressed by someone at some time on the forum; but I just need to throw something out there to the whole skyscraper world. Can somebody please ........... PLEASE ......... P L E A S E ......... re-clad that Verizon building!! :sly:

yes, it's been brought up of course but i believe someone said the economy did the project in........:(

hunser
Feb 27, 2011, 11:47 AM
some cool pics showing the interior...

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oh i want that view!
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NYguy
Feb 27, 2011, 3:43 PM
Alessandro Mari - 2photographers (http://www.flickr.com/photos/marialessandro/)


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Bringing sexy back to the skyline...and another add for the "New York by Gehry" perfume...

hunser
Feb 28, 2011, 7:04 PM
a new icon...

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Don098
Feb 28, 2011, 7:25 PM
Outside of speculation, does anyone know when the exterior service elevator (or whatever the actual term is, I don't really care) is expected to come down? Do they use this elevator until all of the interior work is completed to avoid damage to the permanent elevators?