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June 18, 2007
Grandlantic Yards?
Overexposé of super-starchitect Frank Gehry
Architectural Record conflates Gehry's two mega projects in its online "News Highlights" (audio):
Well, here’s an item about Frank Gehry—whose patience is apparently wearing thin with Forest City Ratner, developer of the massive Grand Avenue project* across the street from his Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles. Although the project is shaping up to be “a dramatic architectural presence in its own right,” the L.A. Times reported on June 12 that Gehry has “clashed repeatedly and sometimes bitterly” with Forest City and might not return for Grand Avenue’s later phases.
The LA Times reported:
Since Frank Gehry was hired nearly two years ago to design a massive mixed-use project along Grand Avenue, he has clashed repeatedly and sometimes bitterly with the developer, New York's Related Cos. Barring some sudden rapprochement, it now seems unlikely that Gehry will return for the planned second and third phases of the project.
NoLandGrab: Forest City Ratner is the overdeveloper for the Atlantic Yards project in Brooklyn, for which Frank Gehry is slated to design the arena and ALL 16 high-rise towers, in addition to towers to be built over the Atlantic Center mall. The additional towers are not included in the Atlantic Yards plan, since they are "as of right" under current zoning.
NYC-based Related is the big-time developer of the Grand Avenue project in Los Angeles, for which Frank Gehry was hired to design the master plan and one building.
Posted by lumi at June 18, 2007 8:08 AM