Detail View: Archivision Base to Module 9: IAC Building
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Preferred Title:
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IAC Building
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Alternate Title:
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InterActiveCorp Headquarters
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Image View:
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Raking view at sidewalk, fritted glass panels with varying transparency
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Creator:
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Frank Owen Gehry (American architect, born 1929)
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Location:
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site: New York, New York, United States
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Location Note:
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555 West 18th Street; corner of 11th Avenue, Chelsea
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GPS:
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+40.745556-74.007778
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Date:
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2004-2007 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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American
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Style Period:
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Twenty-first century
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Work Type 1:
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office building
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Classification:
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architecture
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Material:
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translucent fritted glass; aluminum; concrete; steel
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Technique:
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construction (assembling)
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Measurements:
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160 ft (height)
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Description:
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Many of the columns of the concrete superstructure are tilted (sloped and angled); the glass curtain wall is a skin over this structure. This was the first Gehry facade design constructed entirely of glass, some of the fritted glass panels were shaped by cold-warping, done on site. The building has 10 total floors, 8 of which are office space; capacity 500 people. There is 130,000 net usable sq. ft. It was Gehry's first building in New York. The interior features two huge tiled video walls in the lobby, suitable for a media and internet company. (Source: New York Times [online archive]; http://www.nytimes.com/ref/membercenter/nytarchive.html)
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Image Description:
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The windows? prefabricated panels meet the ground abruptly, their aluminum frames lining up end to end in a neat grid.
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Collection:
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Archivision Addition Module Eight
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Identifier:
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1A1-GF-IAC-A02
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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