IAC Building

(2009)
General information
Status Complete
Type office building
Location 555 West 18th Street
Manhattan, New York City
Coordinates 40°44′44″N 74°00′28″W / 40.74556°N 74.00778°W / 40.74556; -74.00778Coordinates: 40°44′44″N 74°00′28″W / 40.74556°N 74.00778°W / 40.74556; -74.00778
Opening 2007
Owner IAC
Technical details
Lifts/elevators 4
Design and construction
Architect Frank Gehry
Developer Georgetown Company
Structural engineer DeSimone Consulting Engineers
Main contractor Turner Construction Company

The IAC Building, InterActiveCorp's headquarters located at 555 West 18th Street on the northeast corner of Eleventh Avenue in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, is a Frank Gehry-designed building that was completed in 2007. The building was Gehry's first in New York and featured the world's largest high definition screen at the time in its lobby.[1]

Reminiscent of several other Gehry designs, the building appears to consist of two major levels: a large base of twisted tower-sections packed together like the cells of a bee hive, with a second bundle of lesser diameter sitting on top of the first. The cell units have the appearance of sails skinned over the skeleton of the building. The full-height windows fade from clear to white on the top and bottom edges of each story. The overall impression is of two very tall stories, which belies its actual 10-story structure. Vanity Fair commented that the building is perhaps one of the world's most attractive office buildings.[2] Barry Diller, the head of IAC who was intimately involved with the project, mandated that the facade be covered in smooth glass rather than wrinkling titanium, as Gehry had originally planned.[3][1] Diller said he chose Gehry to design the building because he wanted a space where workers "could collaborate and be in an open atmosphere" which he did not think could be done as easily in a typical boxy building. [1]

The IAC Building is featured in the movies The Other Guys and Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps

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Notes

  1. 1 2 3 JOE NOCERA (14 April 2007). "A Building for Diller by Gehry". The New York Times. Retrieved 18 October 2014.
  2. ↑ Vanity Fair (April 2008)
  3. ↑ Reported on the American CBS network's 60 Minutes, re-broadcast June 10, 2007
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