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07/09/10 Alex Njoo, Melbourne, Autralia

As an ardent admirer of Gehry's work, I believe that his genius is not evident in Beekman Tower. The wrinkled stainless steel 'facadic' treatment contributes very little to the design of tall buildings. All the same, viewed as a component of the NY skyline, Beekman Tower may well provide the necessary 'sparkle' much needed in NY's confectionary of tall buildings.

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07/09/10 Nancy Clark, San Diego, CA

It's beautiful!

07/09/10 sandeep, delhi

Its true to Gehry's Style !
Another Land mark

07/09/10 Paul, Halesite

Pretty unattractive stuff. And looks ridiculous so near to the Woolworth. I doubt that Cass Gilbert would be pleased.

07/09/10 JIHAD KAHIL, CAIRO

This Project is reflecting the New Approche of the Architecture Impact on the Surrounding, its a New Wave towards the New but not necessary to the Beauty. Like Chtoukhawsen Music at its time! Why for adjacent twin towers there is a change in the floor levels? No answer! Its purely engineering Concept rather than architectural flow of Imagination. This is a reflection of 9/11 on our world!

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07/09/10 Steven, NYC

...it's like Gehry in handcuffs.

07/09/10 abby, new york

I was looking at Gehry's building from Brooklyn Bridge Park this weekend, and, from that side of the river, it looks unfinished. Your photographer worked miracles with angles. Proportionally, it looks like it should be a few stories taller. You also can't read the same shadows in person, so it looks more like a typical residential tower than a Gehry masterpiece. Thank God for talented architectural photographers!

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07/09/10 patricia crow, orleans ma

when i lived in brooklyn, i had a view from my bedroom window of the twin towers before 9/11. i saw them fall, and saw the dust roll across the river towards me. as architecture, they were much criticized, but from my point of view, at that distance, they were beautiful in form, material and scale, and they gave me a particular view of the reflected morning sun and brought the sky into the composition.

gehry's building reminds me of the twin towers in many ways. there is a doubling of the form at the top, the material is luminous, and the vertical waves somehow remind me of the mutability of everything. if i still lived in that wonderful spot at the foot of the brooklyn bridge, i am sure each morning the view of this building would bring me both sadness and pleasure that the scale has been reestablished and that in some way the towers have been commemorated. my congratulations.

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07/09/10 Shep, Belmont Hills, Pa.

My heart skipped a beat when I saw this. Soft and rippling.
I am excited that Frank Gehry is starting in a new direction and look forward with anticipation to see where this will lead him.

07/09/10 nyarchitect, ny

HORRIBLE!!!! if you walk on the brooklyn bridge towards Manhattan, you will find you can never get a perfect background anymore. sad....

08/09/10 SSL, NYC

The photos look so flat. Go easy on the Photoshop.

08/09/10 T, NY

It is a wonderful building... on three sides. I am quite disappointed to come to a realization that businessmen are preventing the world from experiencing creativity and beauty because they care more about money. The south end looks like a joke and the residence on that facade should sued the developer for all they have. Anyways, cheers for Frank Gehry and his team of designers for giving the world a peek of the endless possibilities of a designers dream! I hope the world will move towards more of an advancement in technology as opposed to one's pocket, I say this because it is only due to greed and what seems to be economical for the business giants that we do not live with greener buildings and cleaner renewable sources of energy - it is always "too expensive" to invest in clean energy... well it is done in the expense of the future but these men only think of what they can gain as of today... sad but true.

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08/09/10 Mukhtar, Chicago

While we in Chicago thoroughly enjoy the Frank Gehrey designed Pritzker Pavilion in Mayor Daley built Milinium Park, when I saw this tower in Manhattan by the same architect I thought it looks odd and ordinary and the famous architect is better at small scale Public works. This design does nothing to excite one nor to advance high rise tower design vocabulary. The top looks truncated and abrupt, ordinary building and pales, even appears embarrasing compared to the finely designed adjacent older high rises.

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