Frank Gehry - arguably the most famous and prolific architects of the last fifty years, - is consistently criticized for solving every design problem with the same pile of crumpled metal sheets. For me, this hardly seems fair – I would argue that most artists work within a relatively narrow band of exploration and interests. In any case, Gehry’s new design for a 76-tower building in lower Manhattan is an eye – opener, a novel solution to a problem that has vexed him repeatedly in the past – the punched window.
