Posted on 12/04/2012 4:38:01 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Each year, the world's newest skyscrapers are pitted against each other for the Emporis Skyscraper Award. Chosen for its aesthetic and functional design by the team of editors from the construction project database, the winner of this year's renowned prize was none other than 8 Spruce Street in New York City.
Also known as New York by Gehry and The Beekman, 8 Spruce Street was designed by Frank Gehry and completed in 2011. It is the first skyscraper by the renowned architect, and won over the Emporis jury with its undulating stainless steel exterior.
"8 Spruce Street stands out even in Manhattan's already remarkable skyline," the Emporis jury said of its choice, culled from 220 skyscrapers completed in 2011. "It is a major new architectural landmark for New York."
It is not the only of Manhattan's famous buildings to win the award — the Hearst Tower won in 2006 as well as the Sofitel New York Hotel back in 2000.
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Was this before or after a bomb hit it?
NO, just NO. UGLY does not even discribe it, hideous and a waste of space and materials.
Antoni Gaudí ??
I think I got motion sickness just looking at it
Isn't it time to move on to something else?
FUGLY
“Now there’s a building which proves the maxim that, ‘just because you can build something, doesn’t mean you should.”
Exactly, well said.
The building is actually very simple and straightforward. Today ornamentation has been replaced with form-making. Question is, what will Gehry’s buildings look like in 50-75 years?
Yes, better at a distance... more please...
Meh. You should see the mental health center he designed.
http://www.designboom.com/architecture/frank-gehry-the-cleveland-clinic-lou-ruvo-center-for-brain-health/
I agree.
It is pleasant enough, and I have never seen a single building like it.
Anywhere.
Another monstrosity foisted on the world by Frank Gehry and trumpeted as wonderful by dolts whose aesthetic senses were formed under the influence of hallucinogens in the 1960’s, are limited to endorsing whatever is new and original (all the beautiful forms seem to have been taken, so new and original is almost equivalent to ugly — some examples of consumer design emanating from Apple and a few Italian design houses to the contrary notwithstanding — or are non-existent and default to praising whatever the gliterati in New York and LA like or feign to like.
Nah, Gaudi’s stuff (his ghastly cathedral excepted) is mostly whimsical and fun (like the building whose roof looks like a dragon is curled up on it taking a nap). And his cathedral has the virtue of being a tour de force of engineering: the spires and arches were optimally designed for height using analog computation.
Gehry’s buildings (with perhaps the sole exception of an art gallery in Toronto) are all just ugly as sin. The one is this article is actually one of his less ugly efforts — the Dancing House in Prague, the MIT Philosophy Building, the Guggenheim Bilbao,... each one uglier than the one before so there is no end to their ugliness.
It didn’t used to be that way,
It used to be straight lines, up and down and across.
Then, hurricane Sandy struck...
He did the Strata Center for MIT. MIT sued his ass off.
The thing was such a freak show that it was impossibly flawed with leaks and mold. Some crap just isn’t buildible with real world materials and methods.
Few want him a second time.
I agree...it’s brilliant.
Yes Gaudi was whimsical. Frank Gehry seems heavy-handed. I threw it out to see if anyone
was aware of architecture.
I agree. Rather look at this building than another assembly-line glass box, any time.
I see this building all the time. In person it’s amazing just to look at.
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