ABSTRACT
The InterActiveCorp (IAC) Headquarters represents several firsts in the long career of its architect, Frank Gehry. Completed in 2007 in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan’s far west side, IAC is Gehry’s first building in New York City (he was 78 years old at the time).1 It is the first time Gehry has designed a building envelope consisting entirely of glass curtain wall. And it is the first building in which Gehry has so emphatically engaged with the condition of translucency—here experienced as an oscillation between opacity and transparency, between solid and void—as a primary element of the building skin.
