InterActiveCorp Headquarters, New York
Frank Gehry- Type Commercial / Office Headquarters / office
- Material Glass
- Date 2007
- City New York
- Country United States
- Photographer ESTO
Julie V. Iovine
The opening of the InterActiveCorp headquarters in New York is primarily being hailed as Frank Gehry’s first building in the city, but it is so much more. Sited on the Far West Side in Chelsea, the ten-story billowing glass structure, which resembles a crystalline snow globe by day and a Creamsicle by night, is a flagship building for the booming Internet company. Yet it is also a catalyst to further development in the area that will sooner rather than later transform the neighborhood it was designed to complement. Right now, that neighborhood includes truck garages and storage warehouses, a women’s prison, and, lately, a few chic galleries. But they serve the IAC building well as a gritty brick backdrop against which its milky white slopes can swell and stand out... [+]
Cliente Client
InterActiveCorp
Arquitecto Architect
Gehry Partners, LLC
Colaboradores Collaborators
Adamson Associates (arquitecto asociado associate architect); Studios Architecture (interiorismo interior architect);
Contratista Contractor
Joel M. Silverman Associates
Consultores Consultants
DeSimone Consulting (estructura structural engineering); Cosentini Associates (instalaciones mechanical engineering); Brandston Partnership Inc. (iluminación lighting); Israel Berger & Associates, TM Technology (seguridad security); Turner Construction (construcción construction management); Langan (geotecnia geotechnical engineering); McCann Systems LLC (audiovisual audio visual); Bruce Mau Design (diseño gráfico graphic design); McCann Systems LLC, Warren Z Productions, Tröllback + Company (pantallas de video video walls)
Fotos Photos
thomasmayerarchive.com, Albert Vecerka/Esto
