Gehry project tightens its belt
Friday, May 30th, 2008You’re not the only one being asked to recraft that building just a teensy bit smaller.
Architectural Record reported this week that the Atlantic Yards, a controversial $4.3 billion, 8 million-square foot Brooklyn development designed by Frank Gehry, is scaling back its buildings.
New renderings were released for the project, showing Gehry’s designs altered to shrink the space of the project’s signature building and accommodate a change in use from residential and office to commercial.
Gehry’s work is distinctive and powerful, but it’s rarely compact.
An interesting function of our shrinking economy, rising fuel costs and fears of global warming might be to see some striking architecture come from doing more with less.
Of course, it’s going to have to get a lot smaller before it really turns heads.
