Goldberger in the New Yorker cuts down Gehry's work at Atlantic Yards but likes our little IAC building...
The façade, unusually for Gehry, is made of a single material: instead of a jumble of clashing forms, the glass is all you see, covering everything like a blanket. By Gehry’s standards, this is serene, but behind the placid exterior are some daring technical maneuvers, including a number of concrete structural columns set at angles. During construction, the Georgetown Company, Diller’s partner in the development, got calls from people who wondered if it knew that the building was going up crooked.
OK, fess up, who was dorky enough to call about the columns?
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