Frank Owen Gehry- 8 Sruce St.

Frank Owen Gehry

8 Spruce St.

Mainly concrete, iron, stainless steel, brick and glass

870’ tall, 76 story sky scraper

Completed February 2011

Frank was born Frank Owen Goldberg. He was born in Toronto, Ontario on February 28th 1929. He started out as a child building cities out of scraps of wood. In 1947 he moved to California and started to attend Los Angeles City College, and eventually graduated from University of California’s School of Architecture.

Architectural critic Nicolai Ouroussoff called it "the finest skyscraper to rise in New York since Eero Saarinen’s CBS building went up 46 years ago". 

The building is located in lower Manhattan, New York. It serves as a school, Space for a hospital, retail, and luxury rentals. It is the 12th tallest residential building in the world, and the second tallest in the Western Hemisphere.

I chose to include this sky scraper because I think that it is phenomenal that buildings can be built in this magnitude. The building has a sense of beauty to it.