[ThreeHundred]

http://archrecord.construction.com/innovation/2_Features/images/0411history9.jpg

The architects’ entry was a 1.5-million-square-foot, 45-story glass tower that presented a swirl of facades that, at street level, resembled a folded copy of the Times caught in the wind. As the building rose, the form resolves into a more rectilinear shaft, with leasable floor plates. At its apex, the building erupted into peaks inspired by the Times’s calligraphic masthead font. The duality between calm and chaos they created allowed the building to conform to the street grid, while also carving out a unique identity on the skyline. It has been said that the collaboration between Gehry and Childs was strained, but for whatever reason, the team withdrew its design just weeks before the competition concluded. The commission went to Renzo Piano Building Workshop and Fox & Fowle Architects, whose design is under construction.

Shame really. I really wanted to see this become reality. I loved it's 'rolled up newspaper' design.

[M II A II R II K]

That does look like a weird one for sure.

[Patrick]

Too bad we didnt get it, instead we got crap :(

[Dac150]

Too bad we didnt get it, instead we got crap :(

:rolleyes:

[ThreeHundred]

^ Compared to what we could've gotten with the newspaper then yes the current NY Times tower is crap.

[Dac150]

^ Compared to what we could've gotten with the newspaper then yes the current NY Times tower is crap.

I don't agree, but if you like this version you like this version.

[StarScraperCity]

I wasn't a fan of this one, but I would definitely have taken it over the current building.

[Aleks]

I really really like the current structure. Ghery is great but I don't like this design. It doesn't look better than the current NTB imo.

[Austin55]

i thisone. Im not normmally one for this organic flowing kinda stuff,but this ones nice,and alot better than the current one.

[ItsConanOBrien]

I like what was built but I like this just a little bit more. l'm a big fan of the top of this one.

[Tanster]

That would have been one awesome tower. I guess it was to bold. Though I love the curves on the building

[Starsky]

Thank god thank god thank god this thing never saw the light of day. People who enjoy this, do you like architecture or art? Have you ever lived in a city thats been blighted by Gehry before?

[ltsmotorsport]

What a missed opportunity. I'm no Gehry lover, but this is so much better that what was built, imo.

[JDRCRASH]

^ Compared to what we could've gotten with the newspaper then yes the current NY Times tower is crap.

Did you like this tower because it resembles Grand Ave. Project? Because thats why I do.

[ThreeHundred]

^ Uhh..no?

[CGII]

That would have been one awesome tower. I guess it was to bold. Though I love the curves on the building

Gehry was bold twenty years ago. Now it's novelty.

[Pinion]

I don't know any famous architects except Gehry and I only remember him because his stuff is so awful and it all looks the same (melted metal bs). He even managed to ruin a hockey trophy.

http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/PHO/AAGL120~Martin-Brodeur-with-2004-World-Cup-Trophy-Photofile-Posters.jpg

[drew11]

It's verry unique, thats about all I can say.

[mainstreet]

I have to say that a lot of Gehry's stuff in the last decade has looked very similar - I love his early stuff, but now it's getting kind of annoying in that they're starting to all look the same. BUT, this one is actually the best I've seen him do in a long time, I really like this one, it fits the grid nicely and the characteristic wild walls are subtle in this one and work very well. Shame, I like it much better than Piano's.

[ThreeHundred]

Hard to find pictures of this but here is another one.

http://www.thecityreview.com/gehgugt1.gif

[sbarn]

Call me crazy, but I prefer Renzo's tower - its much more New York. :yes:

[Zerton]

^ I agree, but I do think the giant "NY" would look awesome.

[metroXpress]

I think it's very unique~

[Lecom]

I actually think Renzo Piano's external screens, with paper-like thinness, smooth but palpable graininess when viewed from a distance, and neat, newspaper column-like rows of windows are a better ecletic representation of a newspaper than anything Gehry could ever produce.

[kickser]

with 45 floors and an average floor height of 4m it would be 180m tall and would'nt made a big impact on the skyline. I prefer the tower that is beeing built, because it allows fancier towers to go up around it. If they had build this one, fancier towers around it, like 11 times square, westin hotel and propably other upcoming towers would not compliment each other, rather clashing. So i consider a decent NYT tower surrounded by fancier towers as the better solution.

[IMBY]

I don't know any famous architects except Gehry and I only remember him because his stuff is so awful and it all looks the same (melted metal bs). He even managed to ruin a hockey trophy.

http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/PHO/AAGL120~Martin-Brodeur-with-2004-World-Cup-Trophy-Photofile-Posters.jpg

I've tried ever so hard to appreciate this man's designs, and I fail to do it repeatedly. Las Vegas got one, the Ruvo Brain Institute, and thank God above and past Pluto, it's only 5 stories!:tup:

If only, if only, if only he'd use more color other than grey, grey, grey! I was recently in Chicago to see his creation in Millenium Park, grey, grey, grey!:slob: