tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20743459.post3543957491153856554..comments2024-03-28T05:19:17.215-04:00Comments on Atlantic Yards/Pacific Park Report: Gehry: loss of arena commission "had nothing to do with me or [Ratner], it had to do with circumstances"Norman Oderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07618087999719667586noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20743459.post-90399985652882223302010-10-17T21:31:35.492-04:002010-10-17T21:31:35.492-04:00If you research the story on the “low costs” for b...If you research the story on the “low costs” for building Bilbao you will find this: Gehry has been quoted (having said it more than once) as saying that it was a miracle that will never happen again. He explained that the month he was doing the deal, Russia, where much of the world’s titanium comes from, dumped a lot of it on the market so that it was even cheaper than stainless steel.<br /><br />See: Conversations with Frank Gehry By Barbara Isenberg<br /><br />http://books.google.com/books?id=cF5CivJnv2MC&pg=PT158&lpg=PT158&dq=Russians+dumped+titanium+gehry&source=bl&ots=B1aX-ZJRs0&sig=HoBimh-vbIBJRv8lzznfu7dBtYQ&hl=en&ei=UZ67TKPGIIX7lwf6pJ3mDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&sqi=2&ved=0CBIQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false<br /><br />As for the subject of the leaks in the MIT building, let’s not stop there. There were also the leaks in the performance center at Bard College (the Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts), and in Gehry’s new Art Gallery of Ontario museum in his home town of Toronto.<br /><br />Notably he has blamed leaks on “value engineering” or cost-saving technology.<br /><br />See:<br /><br />Monday, March 30, 2009<br />Gehry Leaks <br />http://noticingnewyork.blogspot.com/2009/03/gehry-leaks.html<br /><br />Monday, January 19, 2009<br />A Fable for Our Times: Gehry and the Spirit of the Land<br />http://noticingnewyork.blogspot.com/2009/01/fable-for-our-times-gehry-and-spirit-of.html<br /><br /><br /> Michael D. D. White<br /> Noticing New York<br /> http://noticingnewyork.blogspot.com/Noticing New Yorkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15726747803887470424noreply@blogger.com