Gehry waited almost thirty years before building his first skyscraper, Spruce Street in New York, completed in 2011, whose silhouette responds to both the piers of the Brooklyn Bridge and the Woolworth Building. His initial project on this theme dates back to 1981, with his proposal for the Kalamazoo Business Center in Michigan.
Between these two moments, his research focused both on the overall form of the skyscraper, on its crown, and on the spaces connecting it to the urban space, as shown by his unsuccessful projects for the New York Times competition in 1981 and for the Atlantic Yards complex in Brooklyn.
Gehry's agency has had the opportunity to design a large number of high-rise buildings, reinterpreting in particular the relationship between their structure and their envelope, as shown by apparently conventional projects, such as that designed for Berlin's Alexanderplatz, or more provocative ones, such as those under development in Toronto.
