Archivo de la categoría: Frank Gehry

Frank Gehry to Design New York Office for Facebook

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Shortly after winning approval on their Frank Gehry-designed, Menlo Park headquarters in California, Facebook has announced plans to once again commission the Los Angeles-based starchitect to design a new office for their New York City team. By early 2014, Gehry is expected to refurbish an existing 100,000 square-foot, two-story office space – nearly twice the size of their current home at 335 Madison Ave – on 770 Broadway. 

This means there will be plenty of room for growth and “big, open spaces” for people to work and collaborate, as well as “cozy spaces” for brainstorming and a full service kitchen to keep workers satisfied throughout the day.

Serkan Piantino, site director of Facebook’s New York engineering teams, stated: “We were delighted when he agreed to help us build out our new space in New York. It will share many of the features of our headquarters, but will be distinctly Big Apple in design and speak to the unique experience of working in a place like Manhattan.”

Take a closer look at Gehry’s design for the California headquarters here.

Reference: Facebook, LA Times, TechCrunch

Frank Gehry to Design New York Office for Facebook originally appeared on ArchDaily, the most visited architecture website on 04 Jun 2013.

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Frank Gehry To Design Facebook’s NYC Office

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770 Broadway will hold two floors of Facebook’s new Frank Gehry-designed offices. Photo: via nymag.com Frank Gehry seems to be the architect of choice for Facebook. The social media giant has now entered into another partnership with the starchitect, to design its new office space in the heart of Manhattan. Previously, Facebook had been using …Continue Reading

Living Architectures: Gehry’s Vertigo / Ila Bêka & Louise Lemoine

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Fourth project of the Living Architectures series, Gehry’s Vertigo offers to the spectator a rare and vertiginous trip on the top roofs of the Guggenheim Museum of Bilbao. Through the portrait of the climbing team in charge of the glass cleaning, their ascensions, their techniques and difficulties, this film observes the complexity and virtuosity of Frank Gehry’s architecture.

“Living Architectures” is a series of films that seeks to develop a way of looking at architecture which turns away from the current trend of idealizing the representation of our architectural heritage.

Through these films, Ila Bêka and Louise Lemoine put into question the fascination with the picture, which covers up the buildings with preconceived ideas of perfection, virtuosity and infallibility, in order to demonstrate the vitality, fragility and vulnerable beauty of architecture as recounted and witnessed by people who actually live in, use or maintain the spaces they have selected. Thus, their intention is to talk about architecture, or rather to let architecture talk to us, from an «inner» point of view, both personal and subjective.

Unlike most movies about architecture, these films focus less on explaining the building, its structure and its technical details than on letting the viewer enter into the invisible bubble of the daily intimacy of some icons of contemporary architecture. Through a series of moments and fragments of life, an unusually spontaneous portrait of the building would emerge. This experiment presents a new way of looking at architecture which broadens the field of its representation.

DVD CONTENTS

Gehry’s Vertigo:
Time length:48 min
Language:Spanish
Subs:English, French

Living Architectures:
Time length:37 min
Language:Multilingual
Subs:English, French

Dvd Pal:Region All

BOOK CONTENTS

- Foreword
- The Diary
- Behind the Image

Publisher: BêkaPartners
Authors: Ila Bêka & Louise Lemoine
Format:19.5 x 22.8 (1 Book + 1 DVD)
Pages:140 (Hardcover)
Language: English, French
ISBN: 979-10-92194-03-6

Living Architectures: Gehry's Vertigo / Ila Bêka & Louise Lemoine originally appeared on ArchDaily, the most visited architecture website on 01 Jun 2013.

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Living Architectures: Gehry’s Vertigo / Ila Bêka & Louise Lemoine

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Fourth project of the Living Architectures series, Gehry’s Vertigo offers to the spectator a rare and vertiginous trip on the top roofs of the Guggenheim Museum of Bilbao. Through the portrait of the climbing team in charge of the glass cleaning, their ascensions, their techniques and difficulties, this film observes the complexity and virtuosity of Frank Gehry’s architecture.

“Living Architectures” is a series of films that seeks to develop a way of looking at architecture which turns away from the current trend of idealizing the representation of our architectural heritage.

Through these films, Ila Bêka and Louise Lemoine put into question the fascination with the picture, which covers up the buildings with preconceived ideas of perfection, virtuosity and infallibility, in order to demonstrate the vitality, fragility and vulnerable beauty of architecture as recounted and witnessed by people who actually live in, use or maintain the spaces they have selected. Thus, their intention is to talk about architecture, or rather to let architecture talk to us, from an «inner» point of view, both personal and subjective.

Unlike most movies about architecture, these films focus less on explaining the building, its structure and its technical details than on letting the viewer enter into the invisible bubble of the daily intimacy of some icons of contemporary architecture. Through a series of moments and fragments of life, an unusually spontaneous portrait of the building would emerge. This experiment presents a new way of looking at architecture which broadens the field of its representation.

DVD CONTENTS

Gehry’s Vertigo:
Time length:48 min
Language:Spanish
Subs:English, French

Living Architectures:
Time length:37 min
Language:Multilingual
Subs:English, French

Dvd Pal:Region All

BOOK CONTENTS

- Foreword
- The Diary
- Behind the Image

Publisher: BêkaPartners
Authors: Ila Bêka & Louise Lemoine
Format:19.5 x 22.8 (1 Book + 1 DVD)
Pages:140 (Hardcover)
Language: English, French
ISBN: 979-10-92194-03-6

Living Architectures: Gehry's Vertigo / Ila Bêka & Louise Lemoine originally appeared on ArchDaily, the most visited architecture website on 01 Jun 2013.

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New LA Subway Could Spell Acoustical Doom for Gehry’s Disney Hall

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Architect Frank Gehry has voiced concerns that the new Los Angeles subway, scheduled for construction in two to three years, may disturb concerts in his famous Disney Hall. The planned subway line would run 125 feet below the venue’s parking garage and recent simulations have shown that the rumblings could be audible inside the concert hall. Gehry has called for the review of previous noise projections for the metro project, which two years ago predicted no audible impact on his design. “It would be a disaster for Disney Hall,” Gehry told the LA Times. “The flag is up and we should go over it and make sure.”

Read more after the break.

The acoustic experiment was conducted April 23rd by the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority in Thayer Hall, a below-ground performance and recording space at the Colburn School. This small venue, near 2nd Street and Grand Avenue, is closer than Disney Hall to the $1.37-billion subway’s route, which will include a stretch beneath 2nd Street from Hope Street to Central Avenue.

Fred Vogler, a recording engineer who oversees recording sessions and concert-taping for the Colburn School and the L.A. Philharmonic said that “they played a solo piano piece through a loudspeaker and had subwoofers that simulated a passing train. The test was several minutes long. Then they said, ‘Is anybody troubled by the train sounds?’ We said, ‘Well, we heard them, if that’s what you’re asking.’ It set off a lot of concerns.”

Gehry heard about the test’s results from Vogler and communicated his concerns to the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors member Zev Yaroslavsky as well as others, calling for a reevaluation of previous noise projections for Disney Hall.

Metro’s Chief Executive Art Leahy explained that the simulation did not represent actual predicted sonic impact of the trains; instead, it was just a part of determining how precise noise abatement devices along the metro tracks must be to create no additional noise in performance spaces near the subway line. Metro has even hired an acoustic expert in addition to noise abatement consultants to help with the process.

“We are not about to do anything which in any fashion, however slightly, impairs or damages […] Disney Hall or any other feature in that area,” Leahy said. “They are critically important, and we are simply not going to build something that reduces the utility or benefit of those facilities. That’s a blanket statement, no conditions or qualifiers on it.”

A meeting will be arranged that includes all cultural organizations adjacent to the subway line interested in receiving an update from Metro officials. Disney Hall’s original acoustical designer, Yasuhisa Toyota, and its original noise abatement engineer, Charles M. Salter Associates, will go over the numbers again as soon as they are released to make sure that the ambient noise level – the sound when nothing is happening – inside the hall does not exceed 25 decibels. If not, Yaroslavsky says that “Metro is going to have to adjust accordingly.”

Reference: BDOnline, LA Times

New LA Subway Could Spell Acoustical Doom for Gehry's Disney Hall originally appeared on ArchDaily, the most visited architecture website on 29 May 2013.

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The Elegant And Strange Houses Architects Build For Themselves

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Charles and Ray Eames’s Case Study House 8 in Los Angeles Architects tend to be masters of elegance in design, especially in the realm of the home. But when it comes to their own abodes, they tend to take a few more licenses. These houses often serve as testing grounds for the architect’s most adventurous ideas, …Continue Reading

Huge Erections: What’s Driving The Rise Of Super Towers?

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Mine is bigger than yours: the proposed Sky City One for comparison against the Chicago skyline. Photo via webodysseum.com Is it just us or are towers getting taller and taller these days? Broad Group, a Chinese developer, recently announced plans to scale up its prefabricated building technology to unparalleled proportions. The proposed Sky City outside Changsha …Continue Reading

3D Sketches: See Frank Gehry Through His Models

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Frank Gehry’s Monaco Urbanisation En Mer project model, 2007. Photo: Gehry Partners Story by Zach Edelson Architect Frank Gehry needs no introduction, though you may not have met his models. Well, luckily, between now and June 29, you can meet these beauties at Leslie Feely Fine Art in New York City. ”Frank Gehry: At Work” offers a …Continue Reading