8 Spruce Street

**BrooklynLove** · February 8th, 2009, 08:04 AM

No, mechanical floor is the next one to go up - number 16 following the first set back - it'll be double height. This render shows it pretty clearly.

**infoshare** · February 8th, 2009, 08:18 AM

Originally Posted by BrooklynLove

......mechanical floor is the next one to go up...... it'll be double height.

This render shows it pretty clearly.

I had not noticed that double height mechanical floor before seeing this particular rendering: not so easy to see behind all those ridges. We're feeling the Love Brooklyn

- thanks for posting the graphics.

**treebeard** · February 10th, 2009, 02:32 PM

but I noticed they're putting metal brackets on the corners. I'd say the bottom 5 or 6 floors of the tower o far.

**londonlawyer** · February 10th, 2009, 08:17 PM

From the Feb. 11, 2009 NY Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/11/bu...1&ref=business

**NoyokA** · February 10th, 2009, 08:37 PM

Originally Posted by NYTIMES

An architect can provide powerful (and expensive) modeling software to help keep costs down. Using the software, fabricators have produced a facade with various textures at a price that Mr. Gehry says does not exceed what a developer would pay to build a conventional boxy building of similar dimensions.

If this is indeed true developers have no excuse continually hiring the hack architects they do and putting up the same boxy towers.

**lofter1** · February 10th, 2009, 09:48 PM

The concern for the future is that this fancy software in the hands of a hack will simply give us more complicated hackery.

**tone99loc** · February 10th, 2009, 09:50 PM

^ thank you london lawyer - that was an interesting article

**londonlawyer** · February 11th, 2009, 06:02 AM

My pleasure.

**BrooklynLove** · February 11th, 2009, 07:18 AM

If you're Gene Kaufman all you need is a lego set.

**londonlawyer** · February 11th, 2009, 07:52 AM

This skin will look amazing!

**Pinkie** · February 11th, 2009, 09:52 AM

I can't wait to see this building SHINE!

**195Broadway** · February 11th, 2009, 10:50 AM

^
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That skin is so right. Those windows are so Walmart.

**ZippyTheChimp** · February 11th, 2009, 11:32 AM

^
In what way?

**avngingandbright** · February 11th, 2009, 11:34 AM

I think that's just a mock up, so maybe it won't look exactly like that in the end.

Holy Beekman! Frank Gehry's Heavy Metal Revealed

Wednesday, February 11, 2009, by Joey

[Photo: Gehry Partners]
To say that we've been eagerly awaiting our first real-life look at Frank Gehry's rippling steel would be the understatement of the year. And yet, we were completely caught by surprise this morning when we finally got that first look, in an article about...software. Software! Today's Times has a story on the computer geekery developed by Gehry to help control costs on the starchitect's gargantuan piles of crazy—a list that includes the Beekman Tower, his 76-story rental building under construction near City Hall. Gehry Partners provided the Times with a photo of the steel panels that will cover the Beekman's facade, and sure, it's just a mock-up, but explain that to our minds—which were just blown all over our monitors.
· Frank Gehry’s Software Keeps Buildings on Budget [NYT]
· Beekman Tower coverage [Curbed]

**londonlawyer** · February 11th, 2009, 11:38 AM

Why wouldn't it look exactly like what will be installed? They're about to start installing the facade soon; therefore, the panels must be constructed already, and presumably, that's an exemplar unless that photo is two years old.