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May 23, 2006
CURBED.COM, Scoop: Curves on Gehry's Beekman building's
Here's a surprise, the Ratner-Gehry 72-story Beekman St. Tower is shiny and curvy.
Actually this model is probably from 2004. Since no renderings have been released since, it's all we have to go on.
Comment #3 offers this funny insider description of Forest City Ratner:
i was working on this project through early 2005 when a major client pulled out. this is an old rendering (sadly they refused to release any other renderings after this one). i concur with the leaker about forest city - they are 100% pricks. it was entertaining to watch them try to do cost analysis on this and realize that 75 stories of frank gehry is NOT CHEAP, even compared to the atlantic yards mess. they really want the project to be realized and will probably (continue to) rape and pillage to get it done ...
NoLandGrab Exclusive: In searching for inspiration for the tower, Gehry rejected the bride and maiden for a genuine NYC icon, the SUPERMODEL ("if you’d seen [her], you’d understand. I fell in love...").
Posted by lumi at May 23, 2006 10:03 PM