{"id":2239,"date":"2011-02-28T17:01:23","date_gmt":"2011-02-28T17:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/?p=2239"},"modified":"2026-03-23T13:57:59","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T17:57:59","slug":"gehrys-back-what-about-his-front","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/2011\/02\/gehrys-back-what-about-his-front\/","title":{"rendered":"Gehry&#8217;s Back? What About His Front?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2285099\/slideshow\/2285208\/\">Witold Rybczynski in Slate<\/a>, Gehry&#8217;s New World Symphony in Miami Beach proves he&#8217;s back. I&#8217;m not sure where he went, but the building is a well-detailed box that adds the civic-friendly option of turning itself inside out by broadcasting performances on the building to a lawn park.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2243\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/NWS-park_2226.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2243\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2243 \" title=\"NWS park_2226\" src=\"http:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/NWS-park_2226-1024x680.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/NWS-park_2226-1024x680.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/NWS-park_2226-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2243\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The seemingly blank wall is really a screen for projection<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This is bascially a programming decision as much as a design decision, as is the building&#8217;s interface with the the park and the way the park functions.\u00a0Interface and progamming\u00a0are a lot of what makes a place pleasing and interesting. So an empty lot in Silver Spring becomes a weekend market or a Miami warehouse becomes a Sunday afternoon hangout.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Gehry&#8217;s building is nicely detailed, but it&#8217;s the interface with Dutch design firm West 8&#8217;s park that will make it a civic space.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2245\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/NWS-park_2224.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2245\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2245 \" title=\"NWS park_2224\" src=\"http:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/NWS-park_2224-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/NWS-park_2224-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/NWS-park_2224-1024x680.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2245\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thank you for not building another bleak hardscape plaza or blank lawn<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_2252\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/NWS-park_22491.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2252\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2252 \" title=\"NWS park_2249\" src=\"http:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/NWS-park_22491-1024x680.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/NWS-park_22491-1024x680.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/NWS-park_22491-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2252\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">when the bouganvillea grows in this space will be intoxicating; in the meantime&#8211;cool shadows<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_2248\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/NWS-park_2241.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2248\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2248 \" title=\"NWS park_2241\" src=\"http:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/NWS-park_2241-1024x680.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/NWS-park_2241-1024x680.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/NWS-park_2241-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2248\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">and another thing, with a little effort, even the boring stuff like transformer housings, can look good<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">According to Witold Rybczynski in Slate, Gehry&#8217;s New World Symphony in Miami Beach proves he&#8217;s back. I&#8217;m not sure where he went, but the building is a well-detailed box that adds the civic-friendly option of turning itself inside out by broadcasting performances on the building to a lawn park.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This is bascially a programming decision as much as a design decision, as is the building&#8217;s interface with the the park and the way the park functions.\u00a0Interface and progamming\u00a0are a lot of what makes a place pleasing and interesting. So an empty lot in Silver Spring becomes a weekend market or a Miami warehouse becomes a Sunday afternoon hangout.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Gehry&#8217;s building is nicely detailed, but it&#8217;s &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/2011\/02\/gehrys-back-what-about-his-front\/\" class=\"read-more\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3,20],"tags":[219,55,218,220],"class_list":["post-2239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-design","category-public-spaces","tag-gehry","tag-miami","tag-new-world-symphony","tag-west-8"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2239"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11151,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2239\/revisions\/11151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}