8 Spruce Street - Beekman Tower - by Frank Gehry

**londonlawyer** · April 28th, 2014, 06:12 AM

Originally Posted by Tectonic

10.01.13

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This tower is a landmark. I'd like to see a Gehry high rise in the HY, and one in the heart of Midtown.

**mariab** · April 28th, 2014, 04:11 PM

Not sure how he could top this one without duplicating it.

**londonlawyer** · April 28th, 2014, 05:21 PM

A torqued one with a facade like this would be nice -- like a tall version of what he did in HK.

**TREPYE** · April 29th, 2014, 09:46 AM

Originally Posted by mariab

Not sure how he could top this one without duplicating it.

A rippled faced on the south side, more even setbacks on the east-west wings, a contextual base, a crown/spire.... If anything, IMHO, as great and amazing as 3/4 of the facade is, there is still much more room for improvement, and likely easy to top (no pun) by duplicating.

**LeCom** · September 8th, 2014, 01:13 PM

**dtolman** · May 2nd, 2017, 09:02 PM

Caught fantastic uh... anti-crepuscular rays streaming from the Gehry building last Thursday morning - while crepuscular rays emanated from the WTC 1 tower. Have to share!