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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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Frank Gehry releases design for Colburn Center in Los Angeles

March 16, 2022 Ben Dreith 0

The Colburn School has announced plans for a 100,000-square-foot campus expansion in Downtown Los Angeles designed by architect Frank Gehry. A place for training musicians and dancers, the Colburn School enlisted Gehry Partners to build the Colburn Center – a significant expansion to its current facilities. At the heart of the design is a performance

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Frank Gehry-designed Guggenheim Abu Dhabi announces 2025 opening date

October 8, 2021 Lizzie Crook 0
Render of Guggenheim Abu Dhabi by Frank Gehry

The long-awaited Guggenheim museum in Abu Dhabi by architect Frank Gehry is set to open in 2025, nearly 20 years after plans were unveiled and 14 years after construction began. Guggenheim Abu Dhabi is currently being constructed on Saadiyat Island – a cultural district under development off the coast of the UAE capital. At 42,000-square-metres,

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Salt panels made using “only sun and wind” used to clad interior of Frank Gehry’s Arles tower

July 9, 2021 Marcus Fairs 0
Salt-clad lift panel

Natural materials produced from local salt, sunflowers and algae have been used on the interior of Frank Gehry’s tower for Luma Foundation in Arles to lower its carbon footprint. Lift lobbies have been clad in thousands of salt panels produced in the ancient salt flats in the nearby Camargue nature reserve. Algae from the Camargue,

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This week we interviewed Frank Gehry about his Luma Arles tower

July 3, 2021 Tom Ravenscroft 0
The Tower at Luma Arles

This week on Dezeen, we spoke to Frank Gehry about the environmental performance of his latest project, The Tower in the French town of Arles. In an exclusive interview with Dezeen, the 92-year-old Canadian-American architect said The Tower responds to concerns about the carbon footprint of architecture. “We fit into it,” he said. “But I

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