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Photos reveal Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim Abu Dhabi nearing completion

December 8, 2025 Lizzie Crook 0

Late Canadian-American architect Frank Gehry’s last major building, the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, has been pictured nearing completion on Saadiyat Island, UAE. Located in the island’s cultural district, the long-awaited museum will encompass 42,000 square metres and become the largest of the four Guggenheim outposts, which include Gehry’s Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. It is the last major project

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Frank Gehry’s 15 most significant buildings

December 5, 2025 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Canadian-American architect Frank Gehry has passed away, leaving an almost-unbelievable architectural legacy. Here are his 15 most influential buildings. Gehry Residence, USA, 1978 For Gehry’s radical extension to his own home in Santa Monica, California, he wrapped his Dutch-style suburban house in a series of interlocking structures. Featured in the seminal Deconstructivist Architecture exhibition at MoMA,

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“The greatest architect” Frank Gehry dies aged 96

December 5, 2025 Ben Dreith 0

Canadian-American architect Frank Gehry, known for his deconstructivist Guggenheim Museum Bilbao and Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, has died aged 96. Gehry, whose death was confirmed by his chief of staff Meaghan Lloyd to the New York Times, was one of the world’s most well-known architects, practising architecture and design for nearly eight

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“Bowing out gracefully is a rare thing in the starchitect firmament”

March 5, 2024 Catherine Slessor 0

Architecture has a long tradition of famous figures working well into their old age but sometimes it’s best to know when to stop, writes Catherine Slessor. Though it seems like only yesterday that the ribbon was being cut on the Bilbao Guggenheim, Frank Gehry turned 95 at the end of February. Architecture’s original enfant terrible,

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“Do you like it, corporate overlords?” asks commenter

November 29, 2023 Rheanna Hopkins 0

In this week’s comments update, readers are discussing an extension of media company Warner Bros’ headquarters in Burbank, completed by LA architecture studio Gehry Partners. The complex features two distinctive facades – glass intended to evoke the form of icebergs is interspersed with steel facades modelled on the art deco-style buildings of early Hollywood. “The

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Gehry Partners references icebergs and Hollywood for Warner Bros building

November 22, 2023 Ben Dreith 0

LA architecture studio Gehry Partners has completed the extension of media company Warner Bros’ headquarters in Burbank, which juxtaposes two distinctive facade styles. Called Second Century Burbank, the Gehry Partners-designed complex contains additional offices and studios for the headquarters, which is flanked by a major highway and the studio lot. Its name marks the celebration

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BIG and Frank Gehry among studios with “singular visions” for US Navy Museum

April 18, 2023 Ben Dreith 0

BIG, Gehry Partners and Perkins&Will are among the five studios that have been selected as finalists in a contest to design the future National Museum of the US Navy. US governmental agency Naval History and Heritage Command (NHHC) released the winning designs from a competition launched to explore potential designs for the museum, which called

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Frank Gehry’s long-awaited Ocean Avenue Project in Santa Monica finally approved

July 27, 2022 Jane Englefield 0
Ocean Avenue Project by Frank Gehry

A mixed-use development by architect Frank Gehry, which has been almost a decade in the making, has been granted final approval to be built in Santa Monica, California. Recently given the go-ahead by the Santa Monica City Council, Ocean Avenue Project will be a mixed-use complex including housing, a hotel, restaurants and shops as well as an art

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Dezeen Debate newsletter features Frank Gehry’s The Grand skyscrapers

July 21, 2022 Serena Lawrance 0

The latest edition of Dezeen Debate features a pair of skyscrapers designed by Frank Gehry. Subscribe to Dezeen Debate now. Gehry’s The Grand skyscrapers have opened across the street from the architect’s famous Walt Disney Concert Hall. The complex in downtown Los Angeles features residences, retail spaces and a hotel. Both of the towers feature unique L-shaped

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