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El nuevo Toronto, según Gehry – ABC.es

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El arquitecto del Guggenheim Bilbao reimaginará la zona de ocio del centro de la ciudad canadiense en la que nació.

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El arquitecto Frank Gehry no para. Hace unos días conocíamos que había sido contratado por Mark Zuckerberg para que diseñe el nuevo campus de Facebook, en el que la red social montará la extensión de sus oficinas centrales. Y ahora el New York Times adelanta que Gehry está trabajando en un proyecto para reimaginar la zona de ocio del centro de Toronto.

El arquitecto, de 83 años y nacido en esa ciudad, ha declarado: «Es muy especial para mí trabajar en Toronto y decicarme a los barrios donde crecí». En concreto el proyeto, que se calcula tardará de cuatro a siete años en ser realidad, abarca tres torres residenciales de unos 80 pisos cada una, con tiendas a pie de calle, un centro de enseñanza, galerías, estudios…

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A rendering of Frank Gehry’s residential towers planned for Toronto. Gehry International, Inc.

Frank Gehry anuncia la construcción de tres rascacielos en el centro de Toronto

El arquitecto canadiense Frank Gehry ha anunciado hoy que construirá tres rascacielos en el centro de Toronto que incluirán museos, galerías de arte y una universidad.

Frank Gehry Joins Toronto Development

By CAROL VOGEL

David Mirvish, a former art dealer who is among the leading collectors, theater producers and real estate developers in Canada, has teamed up with Frank Gehry, the 83-year-old Los Angeles-based architect, to reimagine the downtown entertainment district of Toronto.

The plans, to be unveiled Monday, include three 80- to 85-story residential towers with shops at street level, above. The complex will feature a 60,000-square-foot museum to showcase Mr. Mirvish’s vast collection of abstract art, including works by Frank Stella, David Smith, Morris Louis and Helen Frankenthaler.

There will also be space for the public learning center of OCAD University, including galleries, studios, seminar rooms and a lecture hall. The project is expected to take four to seven years to construct.

Mr. Gehry, who is from Toronto, has worked there before; he renovated the Art Gallery of Ontario, which reopened in 2008.

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A Digitally Inspired Veil, Intended to Save Lives, Appears at N.Y.U. Library – NYTimes.com

By DAVID W. DUNLAP

Perforated aluminum screens now enclose the balconies of the Elmer Holmes Bobst Library at New York University, where three students have leapt to their deaths since 2003. The N. Y. Times

“One of New York’s most spectacular architectural experiences,” Paul Goldberger, then the architecture critic of The New York Times, wrote in 1973 about the atrium of the new Elmer Holmes Bobst Library at New York University. It was that, indeed.

It also proved to be one of the most unnerving. The thin aluminum balusters ringing the balconies of the 12-story structure seemed disquietingly insubstantial against the 150-foot-high void beyond.

When seen from above, the trompe-l’oeil floor looked like a three-dimensional fantasy landscape by M. C. Escher that almost beckoned the viewer to enter. A journey through Bobst could feel precarious even on the best day.

And there were three dreadful days. On Sept. 12, 2003, John D. Skolnik, a junior, jumped to his death in the atrium. Less than a month later, on Oct. 10, so did Stephen Bohler, a freshman.

Within weeks, the university installed eight-foot-high clear polycarbonate barriers along the balconies. Despite this measure, on Nov. 3, 2009, Andrew E. Williamson-Noble, a junior, also jumped to his death there.

One step the university took in response to these and other student deaths was to commission Joel Sanders Architect to reimagine the troublesome space in Bobst. Instead of trying to create an inconspicuous barrier, Mr. Sanders and his colleagues have designed randomly perforated aluminum screens that completely enclose the balconies around the perimeter of the atrium and the open staircase connecting them, transforming the space in consequence.

University officials expect the renovation to be finished next month. They would not disclose the cost.

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A Lisbon Architect Brings His Skills to MoMA — Q&A – NYTimes.com

Currents | Q&A

By STEVEN KURUTZ

Pedro Gadanho, a 43-year-old Portuguese architect, may represent the future of the profession, in that he doesn’t do much actual building. Instead, he has fashioned a gadfly-like career as a curator, writer, blogger and teacher, while finding time to squeeze in an architecture project or two each year, like Baltasar House, a boldly colored residence he designed in 2007 in Porto, Portugal, and the Torres Vedras house, which he designed in 2010 outside Lisbon.

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Last month, Mr. Gadanho was hired by the Museum of Modern Art as a curator in its department of architecture and design. His duties will include organizing exhibitions and overseeing the Young Architects Program, an annual competition, organized by MoMA with its affiliate, MoMA PS1 in Queens, in which emerging architects build projects for MoMA PS1’s courtyard.

Mr. Gadanho predicts that his new MoMA post will end what he calls “juggling in between different works,” and will direct his focus on curating. “I was allowed to play around with these possibilities for a long time,” he said recently, speaking on the phone from Lisbon. “But now, with this full-time job, which requires a lot of dedication, is the moment when I choose.”

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