Project #14
Baruch College Atrium & Addition
Lexington and 23rd Street
17+ stories
G TECTS/Frank Gehry
Proposed 2007-?
The Architect's Newspaper
ANOTHER CHANCE FOR BARUCH
http://archpaper.com/eavesdrop/eaves...5_07_0420.html
We all but gave up on Baruch College when it built the
bloated, beached whale between East 24th and 25th streets that it refers to as its Vertical Campus, designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox. But now we hear that a new, more promising master plan is in the works by Gordon Kipping, the G TECTS principal who collaborated with Frank Gehry on Issey Miyake’s Tribeca store.
We’re told Kipping’s proposal, which would involve Gehry in some yet-to-be-determined way, includes inserting a new 17-plus-story atrium in the central bay of the college’s 1929 building at Lexington and 23rd. That atrium would face the street in the form of a glass wedge housing a dramatic spiraling column of stairs that twists as the glazing tapers. In addition, a new through-block structure would connect the building with KPF’s monstrosity while, hopefully, also blocking out one’s view of it. If all goes well, construction could begin in 2007.
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