* Residential Architecture: Frank Gehry Designs Mixed-Use Tower for Downtown Santa Monica

Residential Architecture: Frank Gehry Designs Mixed-Use Tower for Downtown Santa Monica: “..Developers M. David Paul Associates and the Worthe Real Estate Group have commissioned Frank Gehry to design a mixed-use hotel and residential tower in his hometown of Santa Monica, California, USA. The 22-story “Ocean Avenue Project” aims to stimulate the coastal city’s economy with street-level restaurant and retail space below a 125-room hotel and 22-unit condominium tower topped with a rooftop observation deck. As for accommodating the car-centric lifestyle of the West Coast, resident and visitor parking will be available in a three-story subterranean garage beneath the tower. In addition, the developers plan to integrate a 36,000 square foot museum campus that will add a cultural perk to the development just North of its two-acre site..Although this project looks promising, the 244-foot, Gehry-esque tower is currently pending approval from the City. A vote by the end of March will decide its fate..”

See some of our other posts on work by Frank Gehry:

• Architecture: Miami: America’s Next Great Architectural City?
• Architecture: Gehry and Mirvish unveil Toronto ‘Sculptures’
• Architecture: Frank Gehry designs Facebook HQ Expansion
• Architecture: The French Cinematheque by Frank Gehry
• Residential Architecture: Duplex by Frank Gehry for Make it Right
• Architecture: The Dancing House by Frank O. Gehry
• Residential Architecture: Video: Gehry Residence by Frank Gehry, 2012 AIA Twenty-five Year Award Recipient
• Residential Architecture: Gehry Residence by Frank Gehry
• Architecture: Opus Hong Kong by Frank Gehry
• New York by Gehry Now Complete
• Frank Gehry-designed Abu Dhabi Guggenheim Faces Boycott
• “New York by Gehry” Now Renting
• Gehry, Hadid, Foster, Ando, & Nouvel – All on One Small Island
• Frank Gehry’s New World Symphony Center – Wonderful the Way it Should Be
• Frank Gehry Residential Tower Prepares for Renters
• Frank Gehry’s Riotously Sculptural $100-million Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health in Las Vegas Opens

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image: © Gehry Partners; article: Rosenfield , Karissa. “Gehry Designs Mixed-Use Tower for Downtown Santa Monica” 04 Mar 2013.ArchDaily

New York by Gehry Now Complete

Exterior facade of New York by Gehry (formerly known as Beekman Tower), 8 Spruce Street, New York

image: Gehry Partners/Designboom

The great design blog Designboom has published an update, with truly marvelous photos, of the wondrous New York by Gehry , designed, of course, by Frank Gehry, residential tower, formerly known as Beekman Tower, 8 Spruce Street, New York, now complete.  Click here for their coverage.

“New York by Gehry” Now Renting

“New York by Gehry”, 8 Spruce Street, New York City, designed by Frank Gehry

image: “New York by Gehry” official site

The wondrous 8 Spruce Street, designed by Frank Gehry, and now known as “New York by Gehry, in New York City’s Financial District (FiDi) is now renting.  Luxuriously appointed, thrillingly designed, and with breathtaking, to say the least, views, apartments can now be visited, and, yes, rented.  You can also take a look at the official site, here, and read Curbed NY’s article, here, whether you intend to rent or not.

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Frank Gehry Residential Tower Prepares for Renters

Frank Gehry’s 8 Spruce Street (NYC) Residential Tower

image: Piotr Radinski for The New York Times

Fred A. Bernstein has written an interesting short article entitled “New Gehry Tower Prepares for Renters” in the Real Estate section of The New York Times looking at the possible trials and tribulations of renting apartments in the Frank Gehry-designed 8 Spruce Street (NYC) (the tower was briefly known as Beekman Towers) residential building with its “undulating skin that ripples like the Statue of Liberty’s gown, but in stainless steel rather than copper.”  Including several quotes from Gehry on construction choices and costs.  Gehry, himself, says that he doesn’t plan on renting an apartment there…

Some very nice photos in the slideshow, here.
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