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Frank Gehry creates “welcoming building” for Children’s Institute in LA

June 23, 2022 Ben Dreith 0
Children's Institute designed by Frank Gehry to open in LA

Architect Frank Gehry has designed a children’s institute for no fee in the Watts area of Los Angeles, California, which will provide social services to the local community. Gehry designed the structure to serve as the first-ever home for The Children’s Institute – a 116-year-old organisation that helps families in the Los Angeles area. The building in the

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“Shiny buildings are always a bad idea” says commenter

June 8, 2022 Rebecca Grove 0
Frank Gehry unveils new visuals of his tallest-ever residential skyscrapers

In this week’s comments update, readers are debating the newly revealed visuals of Frank Gehry’s tallest-ever residential skyscrapers and other top stories. The Forma project will comprise two towers, a 298-metre-tall western and a 262-metre-tall eastern tower, which will be the tallest residential towers ever designed by Gehry. “Facade chaos, interior plush-spartan” Readers were not convinced

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Frank Gehry unveils new visuals of his tallest-ever residential skyscrapers

June 1, 2022 Ben Dreith 0

Canadian architect Frank Gehry has revealed additional visuals of his Forma skyscrapers, which are set to be built in Toronto, Canada, and feature interiors by Paolo Ferrari. The Forma project will comprise two towers, a 298-metre-tall western and a 262-metre-tall eastern tower, which will be the tallest residential towers ever designed by Gehry. The tallest

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Gehry House extension seems to “emerge from the inside of the house”

May 30, 2022 Cajsa Carlson 0
Steel-clad Gehry House in California

Continuing our series exploring deconstructivist architecture we look at Gehry House, architect Frank Gehry’s radical extension to his home in Santa Monica, California. Gehry House was built around and encompasses an existing Dutch-style suburban building, which Gehry expanded by adding a number of interlocking structures that disrupt the shape of the original building. “The force

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Frank Gehry’s Walt Disney Concert Hall is “a living room” for Los Angeles

May 27, 2022 Lizzie Crook 0

Up next in our deconstructivism series we take a look at the iconic Walt Disney Concert Hall designed by Canadian-American architect Frank Gehry. Occupying an entire city block in Downtown Los Angeles, the Walt Disney Concert Hall is an architectural landmark that took more than 15 years to build. It is one of Gehry’s best-known

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Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is “the greatest building of our time”

May 18, 2022 Alyn Griffiths 0
Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Up next in our deconstructivism series is Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, a building that reignited the city’s economy and started a global trend for landmark museums. Situated on the west bank of the River Nervion, which flows through Bilbao before reaching the Cantabrian Sea, the Guggenheim Museum instantly attracted attention and critical praise upon

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Frank Gehry brought global attention to deconstructivism

May 17, 2022 Jon Astbury 0
Frank Gehry

Continuing our series revisiting deconstructivist architecture, we profile Frank Gehry, the Canadian architect who brought global attention to the style with the ground-breaking Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao. Opening in 1997, this gleaming composition of titanium-clad, ship-like forms – described by the New York Times as a “miracle” – transformed the economic fortunes of the previously

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Frank Gehry frames Battersea Power Station with studio’s first housing project in the UK

May 11, 2022 Lizzie Crook 0
Facades of Prospect Place at Battersea Power Station

Rippled white facades punctured by large windows define the Prospect Place housing development that Pritzker Architecture Award-winning architect Frank Gehry has completed at Battersea Power Station in London. The scheme, which is the first housing project realised by the Canadian-American architect in the UK, contains two buildings with a total of over 300 homes. Gehry designed

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