Frank Gehry designed the Beekman Tower at 8 Spruce Street in New York City. It is 76 floors tall and surrounded by famous skyscrapers like City Hall, Woolworth Building, and Mead & White Municipal Bldg. The steel structure is typical but it is covered with a signature Gehry reflective metal skin that wrinkles and textures to provide variety and interest.
The plan steps back as it rises, holding to conventional skyscraper design, but it does so carefully and seeks to maintain its bold statement. These folds also provide contrast of inside and outside with nooks and bays afforded by the walls. As Gehry’s first residential tower project, the 8 Spruce Street skyscraper is also one of the skyscrapers to the wealthy that are popping up around Manhattan and cause a rift in social class, probably for the worse.
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