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whiteford · #**3681** Posted **Aug 14, 2011, 11:44 PM**

nice, very nice indeed. i also love the way the glass colors contrast with the cladding with near perfect effect. flawless imo.

uaarkson · #**3682** Posted **Aug 15, 2011, 4:01 AM**

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Originally Posted by SkyscrapersOfNewYork

Its lit from a setback on the school.

Is it being actively lit yet? There are no pictures that show the lighting.

NYguy · #**3683** Posted **Aug 15, 2011, 12:21 PM**

rlj

NYguy · #**3684** Posted **Aug 26, 2011, 5:41 AM**

http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune....uous-firs.html

Gehry's rollicking tower: From the architect of Chicago's Pritzker Pavilion, a sensuous first skyscraper in Manhattan

BY BLAIR KAMIN
August 26, 2011

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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.

But to linger solely on 8 Spruce Street's strikingly crumpled skin is to miss this skyscraper's deeper appeal. Based on a recent tour I took, it also appears to be a welcoming, pleasantly quirky place to live. Gehry, in other words, has given us the total package, not a slick facade job where the architecture only runs a few inches deep...

Comparison to Aqua

banned · #**3685** Posted **Aug 26, 2011, 4:30 PM**

Question:
When buildings are all sealed up like this tower, and have invidual HVAC units (http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune....c157970d-800wi), how does fresh air come in?

yaletown_fella · #**3686** Posted **Aug 27, 2011, 4:44 PM**

I actually like this more than the Freedom Tower. Hopefully Gehry will show his hometown some love too. I'd love to see somthing similar in T.O

steveve · #**3687** Posted **Aug 28, 2011, 11:13 PM**

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Originally Posted by yaletown_fella

I actually like this more than the Freedom Tower. Hopefully Gehry will show his hometown some love too. I'd love to see somthing similar in T.O

lol! something of the same quality of this tower in Toronto would be AMAZING!
but heck, we will soon have the tallest all-residential tower in North America! (Aura)... EAT IT NY!

sbarn · #**3688** Posted **Aug 29, 2011, 11:09 PM**

Not to encourage a pissing contest, but isn't this tower taller than then the Aura? This website lists Aura's height as 827 ft versus NY by Gehry's 870 ft.

Regardless, Extell's residential tower on West 57th Street is well on its way to 1,005 feet.

STR · #**3689** Posted **Aug 29, 2011, 11:24 PM**

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Originally Posted by banned

Question:
When buildings are all sealed up like this tower, and have invidual HVAC units (http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune....c157970d-800wi), how does fresh air come in?

A single central air intake, which distributes air to all of the units.

steveve · #**3690** Posted **Aug 30, 2011, 4:14 PM**

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Originally Posted by sbarn

Not to encourage a pissing contest, but isn't this tower taller than then the Aura? This website lists Aura's height as 827 ft versus NY by Gehry's 870 ft.

Regardless, Extell's residential tower on West 57th Street is well on its way to 1,005 feet.

they plan on having a height increase, that should bring it around 270m, but as it stands on the diagrams page, it is 264m vs Beekman's 267m, but it's close!

NYguy · #**3691** Posted **Sep 7, 2011, 3:15 PM**

It's about time for that new thread...

Eric in SF

colemonkee · #**3692** Posted **Sep 7, 2011, 7:18 PM**

God, I love that neo-gothic red building in the foreground. The shorter buildings on the right, however, are ripe for redevelopment, in my opinion. Nothing worth saving that hasn't already been ruined by Canon ads. And this is coming from an avid Canon user.

hunser · #**3693** Posted **Sep 7, 2011, 7:56 PM**

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Originally Posted by NYguy

It's about time for that new thread...

well, obviously someone has to spend some time for making a new thread. if it's not up by tomorrow I'll do it, no problem.

Obey · #**3694** Posted **Sep 7, 2011, 8:31 PM**

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Originally Posted by colemonkee

God, I love that neo-gothic red building in the foreground. The shorter buildings on the right, however, are ripe for redevelopment, in my opinion. Nothing worth saving that hasn't already been ruined by Canon ads. And this is coming from an avid Canon user.

I don't think J&R is going anywhere anytime soon.

NYguy · #**3695** Posted **Sep 8, 2011, 5:31 AM**

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Originally Posted by Obey

I don't think J&R is going anywhere anytime soon.

And they better not, it's one of my favorite stores, though I do wish all departments were in one building.

hunser · #**3696** Posted **Sep 8, 2011, 12:07 PM**

Opened a new thread: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...=1#post5404254