Beekman Tower, 8 Spruce Street, New York


The 867 ft, 76-storey tower designed by renowned architect Frank Gehry for client Forest City Ratner, is New York City’s tallest residentail tower. Opening in 2011, it will offer 903 high-end residential units above a 6-storey podium that includes a public school and a clinic for New York University Hospital. The tower has a striking rippled façade, an undulating, asymmetrical steel curtain wall with curvaceous folds and crinkles reminiscent of the folds in a piece of gently draped fabric. The sculptural façade gives the building a sense of movement. However, Mr Gehry’s “Bernini folds” conceal a multitude of challenges successfully met through the implementation of innovative structural engineering solutions.


Floor


plates and slab edges are unique on each level, and innovative column, beam and shear wall configurations accommodate the steel curtain walls while also ensuring structural stability in high winds and flexibility for a wide range of interior space configurations.


We provided full Structural Engineering services for this award winning project.


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