Frank Gehry - List of Buildings


image of the architect received Sep 2003

The most famous building by Frank is the Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain, described by Time Magazine as "The Building of the Century"; recently he has completed the Walt Disney Concert Hall in LA.

Frank Gehry (1929-) was born in Toronto, Canada and has become a naturalised American citizen.

Key recent Frank Gehry Building:
The Walt Disney Concert Hall

Photo © Andrew McRae
Walt Disney Concert Hall - Los Angeles Philharmonic, Los Angeles
The Walt Disney Concert Hall is home to the Los Angeles Philharmonic and was completed 2003. The concert hall is a key part of the cultural hub in downtown Los Angeles and after Bilbao became his 'next big thing'.

Key iconic Frank Gehry Building:
Bilbao Guggenheim

Photo © Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Featured Frank Gehry Buildings:
Serpentine Pavilion 2008, London, UK

Photograph © Gehry Partners LLP 2008
Serpentine Gallery Pavilion

Maggies Centre, Dundee, Scotland, UK : Photos
Architects: Frank Gehry & James F Stephen Architects

Image © Adrian Welch
Maggies Centre
Frank Gehry's reinterpretation of a Scottish Broch: Signature architecture of shiny surfaces on 'vernacular' base

Gehry was selected to design Dundee Maggies Centre by friend Charles Jencks and his late wife, Maggie Keswick-Jencks - who died of cancer and set about creating civilised buildings for people learning to cope with cancer. This was the third Maggies Centre in Scotland; many more are planned.

Barcelona Fish Sculpture by Frank Gehry : Photos
1992

Click on the link above for more photos of this Spanish building:

photos © Adrian Welch

Frank Gehry building images available upon request: photos 1280x1024 pixels, 72dpi

Frank Gehry - the architect:

images received Sep 2003

Contact:
Frank 0. Gehry & Associates Inc
1520-B Cloverfield Boulevard Santa Monica, CA 90404 USA
tel 310 828 6088 fax 310 828 2098

Frank Gehry architect - Winner of RIBA Gold Medal 2000


Gehry Partners - Building News:
Dubai Guggenheim – proposal
2007-

InterActiveCorp HQ - IAC Headquarters, West Die Highway, Chelsea, New York
2007
Cost: £50m

Louis Vuitton Foundation for Creation, Paris, France
Cost: £70m
French project

Marqués de Riscal Winery, Rioja, Spain
2007

MARTa Herford, Germany
Exuberant brick building with wild metal roof that looks like it has been draped on, as opposed to the earlier Bilbao Guggenheim where the roof and walls become one, intertwined using the same material.

Hotel Marqués De Riscal, Elciego, Spain
Frank Gehry's second Spanish building

Le Clos Jordanne - Winery, Ontario, Canada
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Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis
Cost: $1.5 billion
Sanaa Architects + Diener & Diener Architects + Frank Gehry Architects

Related Development:
Herzog & de Meuron Architects
New Tower + New research and development facility for Swiss pharmaceutical company Roche
Location: headquarters complex, on River Rhine.
Cost: 800 million Swiss francs for both projects

Frank Gehry - Another Scottish Project:
Guggenheim, Leith: Frank Gehry in partnership with Farningham McCreadie Partnership Architects, Edinburgh

Fred & Ginger building, Jiraskuv Bridge, central Prague
aka The Dancing Building, officially the Rasin Building



Frank Gehry: The Architect
Frank Gehry is Design Principal for the firm of Gehry Partners. Before founding the practice, Frank Gehry worked with architects Victor Gruen and Pereira & Luckman in Los Angeles, and with André Remondet in Paris.

Raised in Toronto, Canada, Frank Gehry moved with his family to Los Angeles in 1947. Gehry received his Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of Southern California in 1954, and he studied City Planning at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design.

As well as architecture, Frank Gehry has made many designs for cardboard & bentwood furniture.


Frank Gehry - Awards:
Pritzker Architecture Prize 1989
Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize in Architecture 1977
Wolf Prize in Art (Architecture) 1992
Praemium Imperiale Award 1992
Gold Medal - American Institute of Architects 1999
Gold Medal - Royal Institute of British Architects 2000
Lifetime Achievement Award - Americans for the Arts 2000


Gehry Partners
There are three architect partners of the company: Frank Gehry, James Glymph, & Randy Jefferson. Gehry Partners is located in Santa Monica, California. The firm uses CATIA, a three-dimensional computer modeling program - originally designed for the aerospace industry.

Gehry Partners projects:
Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, California, USA
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain
Ray & Maria Stat Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Experience Music Project, Seattle, Washington, USA
Corcoran Gallery & School of Art, Washington DC, USA
Millennium Park Music Pavilion and Great Lawn, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Ohr-O'Keefe Museum, Biloxi, Mississippi, USA
Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Bard College Center for the Performing Arts, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, USA
University of Toledo Center for the Visual Arts, Toledo, Ohio, USA
Amercian Center, Bercy, east Paris 1994
Vitra International Furniture Museum and Factory, Weil am Rhein, Germany
Vitra International Headquarters, Basel, Switzerland
Stata Center for Computer, Information and Intelligence Sciences, MIT, Boston, Massachusetts, USA 2004
Marques de Riscal Winery, Elciego, Spain
DG Bank Building, Brandenburg Gate, Berlin, Germany
Der Neue Zollhof office complex, Düsseldorf, Germany
Peter B. Lewis Campus of the Weatherhead School of Management, Case
Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Vontz Center for Molecular Studies, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Maggie's Centre, Dundee, Scotland, UK
Team Disneyland Administration Building, Anaheim, California, USA
Nationale-Nederlanden Building, Prague, Czech Republic
EMR Communication & Technology Center, Bad Oeynhausen, Germany
Vila Olimpica Retail and Commercial Complex, Barcelona, Spain

Context to some Frank Gehry buildings noted above:
Barcelona Architecture
German Architecture

Maggies site photo from 2003:

building image received Sep 2003

RIAS Award for Architecture for Scotland Sep 2004 - Maggies Centre Building PR:

Project: Maggies Dundee (Maggie's Cancer Caring Respite Centre)
Address: Tom McDonald Avenue, Ninewell's Hospital, Dundee
Architect: Gehry Partners LLP (design architect) with James F Stephen
Architects Interior Designers (associate architect)
Client: Maggie's Centre
Project cost: £1.3m
Completed: Sep 2003

The Maggie's Centre (the third to be built in Scotland) is a two-storey tower, comprising lobby, reception, office, library, lounge and private meeting rooms. The tower stands as a beacon to the public, identifying the centre as a place of respite to patients. As his first building in Britain, Frank Gehry encompasses his style of the Bilbao Guggenheim into a smaller scale.

The judges remarked on how much detail had been packed into such a small
building. Clever design and build quality were much in evidence as was an overall feeling of calm, enjoyment, contemplation and inspiration.

Dundee Maggie's Centre opened 25 Sep 2003
A further 10 Cancer Care centres are in development throughout the UK
Maggies Centre Fundraising: Valerie Busher on 01382 496384 or valerie.maggies.centre@ed.ac.uk

Perfectly Frank was screened on STV & Grampian on 29 Sep 2003

International symposium, Dundee, 26 Sep 2003
'Breathing Space - towards an aesthetic for cancer care' Speakers:
Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid, Charles Jencks, Richard Murphy, David Page
Breathing Space Exhibition: 27 Sep - 19 Oct 2003

Frank Gehry gave the Edinburgh University Laureation Address on 6 Dec 2000

Another key building not far from the Frank Gehry building in Dundee is another Maggies Centre - by Zaha Hadid



World Architects

Frank Gehry : Client & Friend - Charles Jencks

World Architecture : e-architect - a guide to key buildings across the globe

Spanish Architecture

Bilbao Guggenheim

Building image received Sep 2003

Gehry Exhbitiion
18 Feb – 7 May 2006: Toronto

Frank Gehry - Pritzker Prize Winner 1989

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