{"id":412,"date":"2013-12-24T15:02:11","date_gmt":"2013-12-24T20:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulpiazzaarchitect.com\/home\/?p=412"},"modified":"2024-10-13T11:58:17","modified_gmt":"2024-10-13T15:58:17","slug":"iac-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulpiazzaarchitect.com\/home\/2013\/12\/24\/iac-building\/","title":{"rendered":"IAC Building"},"content":{"rendered":"

The\u00a0IAC Building<\/b>,\u00a0InterActiveCorp<\/a>‘s headquarters located at 550\u00a0West 18th Street<\/a>\u00a0on the northeast corner of\u00a0Eleventh Avenue<\/a>\u00a0in the\u00a0Chelsea<\/a>\u00a0neighborhood of\u00a0Manhattan<\/a>,\u00a0New York City<\/a>, is a\u00a0Frank Gehry<\/a>-designed building that was completed in 2007.<\/p>\n

Reminiscent of several other Gehry designs, the building appears to consist of two major levels: a large base of twisted tower-sections packed together like the cells of a\u00a0beehive<\/a>, with a second bundle of lesser diameter sitting on top of the first. The cell units have the appearance of sails skinned over the skeleton of the building. The full-height windows fade from clear to white on the top and bottom edges of each story. The overall impression is of two very tall stories, which belies its actual 10-story structure.\u00a0Vanity Fair<\/a><\/i>\u00a0commented that the building is perhaps one of the world’s most attractive office buildings.\u00a0Barry Diller<\/a>, the head of IAC, mandated that the facade be covered in smooth glass rather than wrinkling\u00a0titanium<\/a>, as Gehry had originally planned.<\/p>\n

(excerpts from Wikipedia)<\/em><\/p>\n

\"FrankGehry-JeanNouvel\"<\/a><\/p>\n

IAC Building by Frank Gehry (left) and 100 11th by Jean Nouvel (tall bldg on right) viewed from The High Line<\/em><\/p>\n

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The\u00a0IAC Building,\u00a0InterActiveCorp‘s headquarters located at 550\u00a0West 18th Street\u00a0on the northeast corner of\u00a0Eleventh Avenue\u00a0in the\u00a0Chelsea\u00a0neighborhood of\u00a0Manhattan,\u00a0New York City, is a\u00a0Frank Gehry-designed building that was completed in 2007. Reminiscent of several other Gehry designs, the building appears to consist of two major levels: a large base of twisted tower-sections packed together like the cells of a\u00a0beehive, with … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":414,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,5],"tags":[140,32,9,10,200],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulpiazzaarchitect.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulpiazzaarchitect.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulpiazzaarchitect.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulpiazzaarchitect.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulpiazzaarchitect.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/paulpiazzaarchitect.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1303,"href":"https:\/\/paulpiazzaarchitect.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412\/revisions\/1303"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulpiazzaarchitect.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulpiazzaarchitect.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulpiazzaarchitect.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulpiazzaarchitect.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}