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Picketing Henry Ford (Free subscription) | yesterday
When Frank Gehry’s Experience Music Project (EMP) was built in Seattle, it was marketed as a design that reflected the ingenuity and outside-the-box thinking that characterized the tech revolution. It was a monument to a “countercultural” narrative: software engineers like Paul Allen were the rockers of the new economy, who had started as hippies and [...]
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Atlantic Yards Report (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
Probably the most curious aspect of the latest Forest City Ratner promotional brochure (aka "liar flier"), reproduced in full below, is that it contains a distortion of an already distorted image. (The flier, which I picked up yesterday at the Atlantic Antic, is the eighth such flier, by my count; the seventh is here, with links to its predecessors. Click on graphics to enlarge.) Keep in mind
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loud paper (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
Sunday evening, a week later than when I wanted to write, and I am sitting here trying to wring meaning from the fact that Matters of Sensation, the new architecture show at Artists Space curated by Georgina Huljich and Marcelo...
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No Land Grab (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
Atlantic Yards Report tries to match Gehry with his celebrity twin: Gehry, whose reputation is taking a bit of a turn south, as the Canadian magazine MacLean's recently reported, is neither Columbo nor Dirty Harry when it comes to Atlantic Yards. While he surely is laboring to create an innovative basketball arena, his willingness to produce renderings that do not merely obscure but actively deceive...
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TREND HUNTER Magazine (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
(TrendHunter.com) Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim Museum unquestionably made the Spanish town of Bilbao an international destination; not to be left out of the action, the HQ of the health department there is also outstanding…
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Atlantic Yards Report (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
So, what character from pop culture does Atlantic Yards architect Frank Gehry most resemble? Remember, in the 2006 documentary, "Sketches of Frank Gehry," Thomas Krens, director of the Guggenheim Foundation, observed, “Somebody asked me once about Frank’s ego. I said: You shouldn’t be put off by the kind of Columbo-like exterior. Y’know, the crumpled raincoat and the sort of shuffling,
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No Land Grab (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
The Jersey Journal, Editorial Remember when the New Jersey Nets of the NBA was expected to move out of the Meadowlands Sports Complex to a Frank Gehry-designed arena in Brooklyn? It is quite possible the Nets will be staying with us a bit longer. The Wall Street crisis and legal problems are close to making a worst case scenario a reality for team owner Bruce Ratner. ... Having already spent millions,...
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Atlantic Yards Report (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
In a thoughtful, more-optimistic-than-not essay published last month, headlined The Glass Stampede, New York Magazine architecture critic Justin Davidson addressed the building boom, with side-by-side photos showing before-and-after views. Though the article contains few Brooklyn examples and no mention of Atlantic Yards, the article still has resonance in Brooklyn. Davidson writes: Half a
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TREND HUNTER Magazine (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
(TrendHunter.com) Architect Frank Gehry is best known for his eye-popping architectural designs, but he took time out from support beams and frames to create this unusual men’s watch for fossil. Instead of using a numerical…
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Bill Boyarsky (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
The perking up of Downtown has reached the point that Sen. Hillary Clinton is scheduled to appear at an Obama fundraiser at the hipster bar...
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Looking Around (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
Serpentine Pavilion, Frank Gehry, 2008 /PHOTOS: LACAYO I thought I'd make this mostly a picture day. Every summer since 2000 London's Serpentine Gallery, which is located in Kensington Gardens, asks a prominent architect who has not yet built in England to design a temporary pavilion for a site adjacent to the Gallery. Quite a few major names have gotten their first Engish commission through this...
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No Land Grab (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
For years the architect has been lauded for ushering in a new cultural era. But the climate appears to be shifting. Macleans By Nancy MacDonald As starchitect Frank Gehry's reputation begins to sour, he has "become a lightning rod for criticism of developer Bruce Ratner's controversial Atlantic Yards development." There's a "culture of affirmation that surrounds Gehry," says the well-known art critic...
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Atlantic Yards Report (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
Native Brooklynite and author Pete Hamill returns to the South Slope for New York Magazine's 40th anniversary issue, in a piece headlined Brooklyn Revisited, and eventually touches on Atlantic Yards. However, because he's only a casual observer of the Atlantic Yards fight, I think he misses a key point: much of the opposition to and criticism of Atlantic Yards goes beyond issues of scale.
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No Land Grab (Free subscription) | 29/09/2008
Forbes.com by Paul Foy A developer of a Frank Gehry-designed "community from scratch" who actually admits he can't raise the money to do the project? Nope, it's not Bruce Ratner, who's still in denial, claiming a December groundbreaking in the face of much evidence to the contrary. A developer unveiled a scale model Wednesday for a Frank Gehry-designed "masterpiece" community but acknowledged he would...
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Noded (Free subscription) | 29/09/2008
Jay Pritzker Pavilion Frank Gehry designed Jay Pritzker Pavilion at Millennium Park Chicago, Il....
