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The IAC Corp, home to HSN, Ticketmaster, Evite, Ask.com, Smith and Noble (I love your shades but I only have four windows so I don't need a new catalogue every month) and ShoeBuy.com among other companies, is putting up a very homely building across the street from the Chelsea Piers. It reminds me of the abandoned Revere Sugar Factory in Red Hook.
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Homely is putting it gently...they really haven't done much work in the last month:
http://velvet-sea.blogspot.com/2006/05/barry-dillers-big-ugly-monolith.html
Posted by: JMoney | 06 July 2006 at 11:30 AM
Why are you guys hating on this building? Diller and Gehry together too rich for your blood? I will say one thing, though, as much as I like this building, it was built with the major help of some 9/11 bonds. I'm not sure how they made that happen.
Posted by: celeste | 06 July 2006 at 11:38 AM
Gehry's building at MIT looked horrible in process... but a really clever building emerged... patience, perhaps, is in order?
Posted by: matt | 06 July 2006 at 01:00 PM
I'm not hating on the building (though I'm not exactly sure what that means). I just walked by it the other day and thought it was ugly. Whether a famous architect design it or not is irrelevant to me. Perhaps, as Matt says, once it is done it will look much better.
Posted by: Joe | 06 July 2006 at 01:35 PM
poetic, aesthetic building from digital design process rare architecture axample in new york.welcome architecture in new york,welcome vanguard!
Posted by: giorgio righi riva | 06 July 2006 at 05:56 PM
I think the building is the best looking new structure on West St. Compared to the ugly glass terrariums that have sprouted up nearby this is inspirational. I especially like the blue and white glass skin.
Posted by: Gary | 07 July 2006 at 02:48 PM
It is very different from the rendering and it looks like an ipod - just horrible. I really wish gehry and his team would learn how to construct a building.
Posted by: jason | 10 July 2006 at 03:22 PM