New York by Ghery

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As stated, the tower is a residential one that only holds rental apartments, so if you wish you can also rent a room and live and experience the building on the inside. It is expensive, but the design of the facade shaped different sizes for the apartments making some of them smaller and therefore, more affordable.

The deal to construct the tower was closed in 2008 under a budget of 680 million dollars, and the design of the building was a slender tower set apart from other buildings by ground plazas with an open space at ground level on two sides of the building. A school project was financed by the city of New York to be featured in the tower, that is located in the first six floors of the strcutre and supposes a base of red brick for the building. In the end, the design featured 76 stories and 1,040,904 square feet of space, which was what Gehry got to start creating the design of the tower, in where he applied the style of his previous creations in a vertical way for the first time.

The design meant a lot of collaboration between the developer, the design professionals, and the construction team because of the external spectacular undulating design of the façade that shaped the internal structure, which is, no doubt, the most striking part of the building. The exterior is composed of about 10,500 stainless steel panels, that were custom made in Japan, which fit together like puzzle pieces.

It is really easy to get a good view of the north side of the building (the facade on the south side is flat) because of the height of it, but probably one of the best places is Pebble Beach in the Brooklyn district of DUMBO, right next to the Brooklyn Bridge. It is a nice, calm place to walk in and visit where you can enjoy a spectacular view of the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges and the buildings of the Financial District, including the New York by Gehry Tower.

Named the best skyscraper of 2012 by the reputed webpage specialized on architecture Emporis, the Beekman Tower, commonly known as New York by Gehry, is the first skyscraper ever created by the celebrated architect Frank Gehry, being as well his second building in the city after the I.A.C. Building and one of the highest residential towers in the world.

The previous use for the setting of the building was a parking lot property of the New York Downtown Hospital, which sold it to raise funds, but stipulated that one floor of the building had to be reserved for the hospital. The selling was seen by Forest City Radner as an opportunity to build a unique structure, taking advance of the setting in the Financial District that has no height restrictions, and therefore they decided to hire Frank Gehry to design a building like no other in the city, something to what the New York Downtown Hospital agreed.