With its ethereal, milky-white skin and faceted curves, Frank Gehry’s IAC Building stands out against the heavy, industrial structures surrounding it on the western fringe of Manhattan’s rapidly evolving Chelsea neighborhood. Even as its context changes in the next few years with the conversion of an abandoned elevated rail (the High Line) into a 1.5-mile-long public park and the addition of apartment towers by Jean Nouvel, Shigeru Ban, Neil Denari, Winka Dubbeldam, Annabelle Seldorf, Robert A.M. Stern, and others, the IAC will remain unique in both its architectural expression and its function as a corporate office builidng. Its status as a Greta Garbo kind of building, however, highlights the project’s weaknesses as well as its strengths.
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