This month, IDOnline has a feature on Frank Gehry’s IAC Building. It’s a building in New York City’s Chelsea neighborhood for Interactive Corporation, which houses brands like Ask.com, eVite, CitySearch, and others. The site is a bit tricky to navigate, but the time-lapse photography of the construction is particularly tasty.
This is Gehry’s first office building in New York City and his first glass-facade building. The site says the glass harkens to the innovation behind Interactive Corporation’s brands, but let’s not kid ourselves here– it’s a throwback to the Miesian glass-skin aesthetic of the rest of the city. Gehry’s earlier ideas for the building are pretty whacked-out, particularly the cocktail-napkin sketch (see the “Design” section of the “Building Design” part of the site).