Why did the Corcoran abandon its Frank Gehry addition and ask for the resignation of David levy, its director? “Mr. Levy believed that there was still a way to get the Gehry building done. Its price tag had soared to about $200 million, but ‘we’d raised $110 million, more money than any institution in this city has ever raised,’ he says. But the board felt the task of fund raising was eating up all the institutional oxygen, so it asked for his resignaton.”