Berta Gehry, U2 front man Bono, Frank Gehry, Ali Hewson.
Over this past weekend on Saturday March 19th, guest gathered to celebrate the 82nd birthday of legendary architect, cognoscenti of the architecture, design, and real estate worlds gathered included Bono and wife Ali Hewson, Candice Bergen, Mike Nichols, Ben Gazzara; art world stars Chuck Close, Claes Oldenburg, Cai Guo-Qiang, Thomas Krens, Lisa Dennison, Larry Gagosian; architects Robert A.M. Stern and David Childs, Marilyn Taylor; as well as real estate and business leaders Marshall Rose, Peter Lewis, Mary Ann Tighe and Kathy Wylde.
In addition to Gehry’s birthday, it was also the formal opening of the gleaming Lower Manhattan tower. Architecture critics are calling the building the finest skyscraper in New York in a half-century and one of the most beautiful towers downtown. The celebration’s host Bruce Ratner, Chairman and CEO of Forest City Ratner Companies presented Frank Gehry with a 40-inch silver birthday cake shaped like a Gehry-esque tower as guests sang “Happy Birthday” to the 82-year old architect.
Rising to 870 feet, Frank Gehry’s first skyscraper, the 76-story New York by Gehry, with its stainless steel cladding shaped to look like draped fabric, is now the tallest residential building in the Western Hemisphere, and an inspired addition to the Lower Manhattan skyline.
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Berta Gehry (far right), “likes” husband Frank’s birthday Cake; architect Robert A.M. Stern (second from right).
Frank Gehry, Thomas Krens of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and artist Chuck Close.
Ben Gazzara, Bruce Ratner, Bono & Carl Bernstein join Frank Gehry to celebrate his first skyscraper and birthday.
