We are not going to take too much pleasure in doing this. But it ain't gonna sting bad neither. Yesterday, our estranged half-steps at Curbed (Happy Birthday!) scored a major coup, echoed below, in unleashing on the world the first public images of yet another turgid Gehry planned for Our Fair Metropolis. The tower at 200 Beekman (or is it 8 Spruce?) has long fascinated those easily fascinated by such things, but the question of what it would look like—it's a fucking Gehry building!—was not at the fore. Still, we found their enthusiasms infectious, charming, even, in their own way. But they were misplaced—it looks like a fucking Gehry building!—and now, we find, through the magic of opening our morning mail (no, Foster, not now; set it up in the solarium) that the renderings are out of date. A trusted source of the highest breeding and moral fibre advises us that an equally trusted and well-respected birdie tweets that, in the former's words:

"Those pics are really old, apparently. Like two years old. And the design has, apparently, 'changed.' Don't you guys fact check over there anymore? Mind the store!"

Um. Source? We know you're having a bad month year. So we won't pile on.

UPDATE: Never mind. Knew he was shitcanned for a reason: our source whiffed it. Curbed—this really hurts—got it right. Happy Birthday!

· BREAKING CURBED EXCLUSIVE: Gehry/Ratner Renderings! [Curbed]
· Breaking: Gehry and Ratner, Sitting in a Town... [The Gutter]

Posted in Dinosaurs, Gotham