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June 15, 2009
Frank Gehry, recession victim?
Crane Country
Industry publications and blogs are still buzzing about Frank Gehry's removal from the Atlantic Yards project:
It's official: Frank Gehry, the starchitect behind Abu Dhabi's coming Guggenheim, will no longer be designing any of the buildings in Brooklyn, New York's Atlantic Yards project that he has been working on for the past six years. Why? Because his designs cost too much. That's the line from Bruce Rattner (sic), the developer on the 22-acre project, as reported in the New York Times.
NoLandGrab: Ratner knew all along that he was paying a premium for starchitecture, so the cost excuse is pretty flimsy.
Posted by lumi at June 15, 2009 6:19 AM