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May 23, 2006
DOWNTOWN TOWER PLAN
The NY Post
By Lois Weiss
An update on the Ratner-Gehry project in Lower Manhattan:
THE Frank Gehry-designed project that Forest City Ratner is developing on the NYU Beekman Downtown Hospital parking lot is starting to shape up.
The tower's just-revealed 876-foot height will top off as the tallest City Hall area structure - yes, taller than the nearby venerable 792-foot Woolworth Building. Nevertheless, despite earlier reports, it will be shorter than all the new buildings at ground zero.
That is taller than Gehry's "ego trip," Miss Brooklyn.
The building will contain the most expensive public school in NYC history, medical offices, luxury aparments and luxury condos.
No renderings have been released.
Gehry's spirited and wavy designs are slowly taking shape as buildable ones for Forest City's other huge project in Brooklyn for the Nets and Atlantic Yards.
A Forest City spokesperson was unaware of the details and had no comment.
Carol Willis, director of the Skyscraper Museum, said, "I'm certainly curious to see it because I'm sure it will be a tower with personality, and I would welcome that on the skyline."
Posted by lumi at May 23, 2006 7:31 AM