Gehry Tower

Gehry Tower

Gehry Tower is a nine-story building constructed by architect Frank Gehry; it is located at the Steintor, Goethestraße 13a, in Hanover, Germany. The building was commissioned by the city-owned Hanover Transport Services (üstra), for whom Gehry also designed a bus stop in the city.

Constructed of stainless steel, the tower is memorable for the noticeable twist in its outer façade on a ferroconcrete core, making optimal use of the relatively small piece of ground on which it is located. Like many of Gehry's buildings, the tower was created with the most modern technology available at the time. Gehry's office first created a 1:100 model, which was then scanned and imported into CAD software to be able to compute the dimensions for the individual parts, all of which vary in size and shape.

Construction began in 1999, cost 8.5 million Deutsche Mark, and the building was officially opened 28 June 2001.

External links

Gehry Tower at Structurae

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Frank Gehry

Completed works	8 Spruce Street Anaheim Ice Art Gallery of Ontario Biomuseo Binoculars Building BP Pedestrian Bridge Cabrillo Marine Aquarium California Science Center Air & Space Building Cinémathèque Française Dancing House Disney Village Dr Chau Chak Wing Building DZ Bank building EMP Museum Gehry Residence Gehry Tower Guggenheim Museum Bilbao IAC Building NYC Jay Pritzker Pavilion Louis Vuitton Foundation Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health Loyola Law School Maggie's Centre at Dundee Merriweather Post Pavilion Neuer Zollhof New World Center Novartis Pharma A.G. Campus Ohr-O'Keefe Museum Of Art Peter B. Lewis Building Ray and Maria Stata Center Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts Santa Monica Place Serpentine Gallery 2008 Summer Pavilion Sleep Train Pavilion Team Disney Anaheim University of Cincinnati College of Medicine Vitra Design Museum Walt Disney Concert Hall Weisman Art Museum

Works under construction / proposed	Estació de la Sagrera (2012) World Trade Center Performing Arts Center (2015) Guggenheim Abu Dhabi (2017) Grand Avenue Project (On hold) Philadelphia Museum of Art Expansion (On hold) Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial (Proposed)

Associated with	Aaron Betsky Dan Dworsky Vlado Milunić Permasteelisa Sydney Pollack

Concepts	Cardboard furniture Digital Project Organization of the artist

Pop culture	Easy Edges "The Seven-Beer Snitch" Sketches of Frank Gehry

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Coordinates: 52°22′29″N 9°43′50″E / 52.37472°N 9.73056°E / 52.37472; 9.73056

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