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Frank Owen Gehry , CC (born Frank Owen Goldberg ; February 28, 1929) is a Canadian American Pritzker Prizewinning winning architect based in Los L os Angeles, California. California.

Frank Owen Gehry

His buildings, including his private residence, have become tourist attractions. His works works are often cited as being among the most important works of contemporary architecture in the 2010 World World Architecture Survey, which led Vanity Fair to label him as "the most important important architect architec t of our age".[2] Gehry's best-known works include the titanium-covered Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain; MIT Stata Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts; Walt Disney Concert Hall in downtown Los Angeles; Experience Music Project in Seattle; Weisman Art Museum in Minneapolis; Dancing House in Prague; the Vitra Design Museum and MARTa Museum in Germany; the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto; Toronto; the Cinémathèque française in Paris; and 8 Spruce Street in New York City. But it was his private residence in Santa Monica, California, California, which jump-started jump-started his career, lifting lifting it from the status of "paper architecture" – a phenomenon that many famous architects have experienced in their formative decades through experimentation almost exclusively on paper before receiving rece iving their first first major commiss commission ion in later later years. ye ars. Gehry is also the designer of the future Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial. Memorial.[3]

Born

February 28, 1929 Toronto, Ontario

Nationality Canadian, American Awards

AIA Gold Medal National Medal Medal of Arts Order of Canada Pritzker Prize Work

Contents 1 Personal P ersonal life 2 Architectural style 3 Other notable aspects of career 3.1 Awards 3.2 Academi Acade miaa 3.3 Budgets 3.4 Celebrity status 3.5 Documentary 3.6 Fish and furniture 4 Software development 5 Works 6 Awards 7 Honorary doctorates 8 See also

Practice

Gehry Partners, LLP

Buildings

Guggenheim Museum, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Gehry Residence, Weisman Art Museum, Dancing House, Art Gallery of Ontario, EMP/SFM, Cinémathèque française, 8 Spruce Street



9 Notes 10 References 11 External links links

Personal life Gehry was born Frank Owen Goldberg[1] on February 28, 1929, in Toronto, Toronto, Ontario. His parents were Polish [4] Jews. A creative child, he was encouraged by his grandmother, grandmother, Mrs. Caplan, with whom he would build build little [5] cities out of scraps of wood. His use use of corrugated steel, chain link fencing, fencing, unpainted plywood and other ot her utilitarian utilitarian or "everyday" materials was partly inspired inspired by spending Saturday Saturday mornings mornings at his grandfather's hardware store. He would spend time drawing drawing with with his father and his mother introduced him to the world of art. "So the creative genes were there," Gehry says. "But my father thought I was a dreamer, I wasn't gonna amount to anything anyt hing.. It was my mother who thought I was just reticent to do thing t hings. s. She would push me."[6] He was given given the Hebrew name "Ephraim" "E phraim" by his grandfather grandfather but only used it at his bar mitzvah.[1] In 1947 Gehry moved to Cali Ca lifornia, fornia, got a job driving a delivery truck, and an d studied at Los Angeles City City College, eventuall eventua lly y to graduate from the University University of Southern California's California's School of Architecture. According to Gehry: “I was wa s a truck driver d river in L.A., going going to City College, College, and I tried radio announcing announc ing,, which I wasn't very good at. I tried chemical engineering, engineering, which I wasn't very ve ry good at and a nd didn't like, and then the n I remembered. re membered. You You know, somehow I just just started racking ra cking my my brain about, "What " What do I like?" like?" Where was I? What made me excited? exc ited? And I remembered art, that I loved going going to museums and I loved looking at pa intings, intings, loved listening to music. music. Those things came from my mother, who took me to concerts and a nd museums. museums. I remembered Grandma and the blocks, [7] and just on a hunch, I tried some architecture classes.” After graduation from USC USC in 1954, he spent time away from the field of architecture in numerous other jobs, including including service in the United States Army. He studied city planning at the Harvard Graduate Graduat e School of Design Design for a year, leaving before completing the program. program. In 1952, still known as Frank Goldberg, Goldberg, he married Anita Snyder, Snyder, who he claims was was the one who told him to change his name, which which he did, to Frank Gehry. In 1966 196 6 he and a nd Snyder divorced. In 1975 he married Berta Isabel Aguilera, Aguilera, his current wife. He has two daughters from his first marriage, marriage, and a nd two sons from his second marriage. marriage. Having grown grown up in Canada, Canada , Gehry is a huge fan of ice hockey. hoc key. He began be gan a hockey hocke y league in his office, office, FOG (which stands for Frank Owen Gehry), though he no longer longer plays with them.[citation needed ] In 2004, he designed designed the trophy for fo r the World World Cup of Hockey.[citation needed ] Gehry holds dual citizenship citizenship in Canada and the United United States. He lives in Santa Santa Monica, California, California, and continues to practice out of Los L os Angeles. Angeles.

Architectural style



Much of Gehry's work falls within within the style of Deconstructivis Dec onstructivism, m, which is often referred to as post-structuralist in nature for its ability ability to go beyond current modalities modalities of structural definition. definition. In architecture, its application tends to depart from modernism in in its inherent criticism criticism of culturally inherited inherited givens such as societal goals and functional fun ctional necessity. Because Beca use of this, unlike early modernist structures, Deconstructivist structures are not required re quired to reflect specifi spec ificc social or universal ideas, ideas, such as a s speed or universality of form, and they do not reflect a belief that form follows function. Gehry's own Santa Santa Monica residence is a commonly cited example of deconstructivist architecture, as it was so drastically divorced from its original original context, and in such a manner as to subvert its original original spatial intention. Gehry is sometimes sometimes associated with what is known as the "Los " Los Angeles School," or the "Santa Monica School" of architecture. The appropriateness of this designation and the existence of such a school, however, remains controversial due to t o the lack of a unifying unifying philosophy philosophy or theory. This This designation stems from the Los Angeles area's area 's producing a group of the most influential postmodern architects, architec ts, including such such notable Gehry contemporaries as Eric Owen Moss and Pritzker Prizewinner Thom Mayne of Morphosis, Morphosis, as well as the th e famous schools of architecture at the Southern California Institute of Architecture (co-founded by Mayne), UCLA, and USC USC where Gehry is a member of the Board of Directors. Gehry’s style style at times seems unfinished unfinished or even crude, but his work is consistent with the California ‘funk’ art movement in the th e 1960s and a nd early 1970s, which featured the use of inexpensive found objects and non-traditional media media such as clay c lay to make serious art[citation needed ]. Gehry has been called "the apostle of chain-link fencing and corrugated metal siding".[8] However, a retrospective exhibit e xhibit at New York's York's Whitney Museum in 1988 revealed that tha t he is also a sophisticate sophisticated d classical classical artist, who knows European art a rt history and contemporary conte mporary [citation needed ] sculpture and painting .

The tower at 8 Spruce Street in lower Manhattan which was completed in February 2011 has a titanium and glass glass exterior and is 76 sto ries high.

The Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain

Reception of Gehry's work is not always positive. positive. Art historian Hal Foster reads read s Gehry's architecture as, [9] primarily, primarily, in in the service of corporate corpora te branding. Criticism of his work includes complaints that the buildings waste structural resources resource s by creating crea ting functionless functionless forms, do not seem to belong in their surroundings surroundings and are apparently designed without accounting for the local climate.[10]


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The Experience Music Project in Seattle

Walt Disney Concert Hall

Dancing House in Prague



Other notable aspects of career Awards Gehry was elected to the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) in 1974, and he has received many national, regional, and local AIA awards, including AIA Los Angeles Chapter Gold Medal. He presently serves on the steering committee of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture. Gehry was awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize at the Tōdai-ji Buddhist Temple in 1989. The Pritzker Prize serves to honor a living architect whose built work demonstrates a combination of those qualities of talent, vision, and commitment, which has produced consistent and significant contributions to humanity and the built environment through the art of architecture. In 1999, he was awarded the AIA Gold Medal "in recognition of a significant body of work of lasting influence on the theory and practice of architecture." He accepted the 2007 The Henry C. Turner Prize for Innovation in Construction Technology from the National Building Museum on behalf of Gehry Partners and Gehry Technologies.

Academia

Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto

Peter B. Lewis building at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, OH.

Gehry is a Distinguished Professor of Architecture at Columbia University and teaches advanced design studios at the Yale School of Architecture. He has received honorary doctoral degrees from Occidental College, Whittier College, the Southern California Institute of Architecture, the University of Toronto, the California College of Arts and Crafts, the Technical University of Nova Scotia, the Rhode Island School of Design, the California Institute of the Arts, and the Otis Art Institute at the Parsons School of Design. In 1982 and 1989, he held the Charlotte Davenport Professorship in Architecture at Yale University. In 1984, he held the Eliot Noyes Chair at Harvard University. In January 2011, he joined the University of Southern California (USC) faculty, as the Judge Widney Professor of Architecture.[11]

Budgets Gehry has gained a reputation for taking the budgets of his clients seriously, in an industry where complex and innovative designs like Gehry's typically go over budget. Sydney Opera House, which has been compared with the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in terms of architectural innovation, had a cost overrun of 1,400 percent. It was therefore duly noted when the Guggenheim Bilbao was constructed on time and budget. In an interview in [12] Gehry explained how he did it. First, he ensured that what he calls the Harvard Design Magazine "organization of the artist" prevailed during construction, in order to prevent political and business interests from interfering with the design. Second, he made sure he had a detailed and realistic cost estimate before proceeding. Third, he used CATIA (computer-aided three-dimensional interactive a pplication) and close collaboration with the individual building trades to control costs during construction.

However, not all of Gehry's projects have gone smoothly. The Walt Disney Concert Hall in Downtown Los Angeles resulted in over 10,000 RFIs (requests for information) and was $174 million over budget. Furthermore, there was a dispute which ended with a $17.8 million settlement.[13]

Celebrity status



Gehry is considered a modern architectural icon and celebrity, a major "Starchitect" — a neologism describing the phenomenon of architects attaining a sort of celebrity status. Although Gehry has been a vocal opponent of the term, it usually refers to architects known for dramatic, influential designs that often achieve fame and notoriety through their spectacular effect. Other notable celebrity architects include Jean Nouvel, Zaha Hadid, Thom Mayne, Steven Holl, Rem Koolhaas, and Norman Foster. Gehry came to the attention of the public in 1972 with his "Easy Edges" cardboard furniture. He has appeared in Apple's black and white "Think Different" pictorial ad campaign that associates offbeat but revered figures with Apple's design philosophy. He even once appeared as himself in The Simpsons in the episode "The Seven-Beer Snitch", where he parodied himself by intimating that his ideas are derived by looking at a crumpled paper ball. He also voiced himself on the TV show rthur , where he helped Arthur and his friends design a new treehouse. Steve Sample, President of the University of Southern California, told Gehry that "...After George Lucas, you are our most prominent graduate." In 2009, Gehry designed a hat for pop star Lady Gaga, reportedly by using his iPhone.[14]

Documentary In 2005, veteran film director Sydney Pollack, a friend of Gehry's, made the documentary Sketches of Frank Gehry with appreciative comments by Philip Johnson, Ed Ruscha, Julian Schnabel, and Dennis Hopper, and critical ones by Hal Foster supplementing dialogue between Gehry and Pollack about their work in two collaborative art forms with considerable commercial constraints and photography of some buildings Gehry designed. It was released on DVD by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment on August 22, 2006, together with an interview of Sydney Pollack by fellow director Alexander Payne and some audience questions following the premiere of the film.

Fish and furniture Gehry is very much inspired by fish. Not only do the y appear in his buildings, he created a line of jewelry, household items, and sculptures based on this motif. "It was by accident I got into the fish image", claimed Gehry. One thing that sparked his interest in fish was the fact that his colleagues are recreating Greek temples. He said, "Three hundred million years before man was fish....if you gotta go back, and you're insecure about going forward...go back three hundred million years ago. Why are you stopping at the Greeks? So I started drawing fish in my sketchbook, and then I started to realize that there was something in it."[15] Standing Glass Fish is just one of many works featuring fish which Gehry has created. The gigantic fish is made of glass plates and silicone, with the internal supporting structure of wood and steel clearly visible. It soars above a reflecting pool in a glass building built especially for it, in the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden. Another huge Gehry fish sculpture dominates a public garden in front of the Fishdance Restaurant in Kobe, Japan. In addition to architecture, Gehry has made a line of furniture, jewelry, various household items, sculptures, and even a glass bottle for Wyborowa Vodka. His first line of furniture, produced from 1969–1973, was called "Easy Edges", constructed out of cardboard. Another line of furniture released in the spring of 1992 is "Bentwood Furniture". Each piece is named after a different hockey term. He was first introduced to making furniture in 1954 while serving in the U.S. Army, where he designed furniture for the enlisted soldiers. Gehry claims that making furniture is his "quick fix".[16]

Software development Gehry's firm was responsible for innovation in architectural software. His firm spun off another firm called Gehry Technologies which developed Digital Project.



Works Main article: List of Frank Gehry buildings

Awards Gehry is a Senior Fellow of the Design Futures Council In 1989, Gehry was the recipient of the Pritzker Prize for architecture. In 1994, Gehry was the recipient of The Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize. In 1995, Gehry was the recipient of the Academy of Achievement's Golden Plate Award. In 1998, he was awarded the National Medal of Arts.[17] In 1999, he was awarded the AIA Gold Medal. In 2000, Gehry was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum[18] In 2004, on November 3, Gehry was awarded the prestigious Woodrow Wilson Award for public service by the Woodrow Wilson Center of the Smithsonian Institution in New York City. In 2006 on December 6, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and First Lady Maria Shriver inducted Frank Gehry into the California Hall of Fame located at The California Museum for History, Women, and the Arts. 2008 Medal of the Order of Charlemagne, Principality of Andorra (declined honor).

Honorary doctorates Visual Arts; California Institute of the Arts (Valencia, California, USA—1987) Fine Arts; Rhode Island School of Design (Providence, Rhode Island, USA—1987) Engineering; Technical University of Nova Scotia (Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada—1989) Fine Arts; Otis College of Art and Design (Los Angeles, California, USA—1989) Humanities; Occidental College (Los Angeles, California, USA—1993) Whittier College (Whittier, California, USA—1995) Architecture; Southern California Institute of Architecture (Los Angeles, California, USA—1997) Laws; University of Toronto (Toronto, Ontario, Canada—1998) University of Edinburgh (Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom—2000) University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California, USA—2000) Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut, USA—2000) Harvard University (Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA—2000) City College of New York (New York, New York, USA—2002) Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois, USA—2004)

See also Organization of the artist Thin-shell structure

Notes 1. ^ a b c "Frank Gehry clears the air" (http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national

/toronto/frank-gehry-clears-the-air-on-fishyinspiration/article1655311/) , Globe and Mail , July


28, 2010 2. ^ Tyrnauer, Matt (30 June 2010). "Architecture in the Age of Gehry" (http://www.vanityfair.com /culture/features/2010/08/architecture-survey201008?currentPage=all) . Vanity Fair . http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2010/08 /architecture-survey-201008?currentPage=all. Retrieved 22 July 2010. 3. ^ for the design, see: http://www.eisenhowermemorial.org/design.htm 4. ^ "In the News: Warsaw Jewish Museum In Poland" (http://isurvived.org/InTheNews/JewishMuseumPoland.html) . Isurvived.org. 2005-06-30. http://isurvived.org/InTheNews/JewishMuseumPoland.html. Retrieved 2011-08-30. 5. ^ Karen Templer (1999-12-05). "Frank Gehry" (http://www.salon.com/people/bc/1999/10/05/gehry /index.html) . Salon. http://www.salon.com/people /bc/1999/10/05/gehry/index.html. Retrieved 2007-08-25. 6. ^ Richard Lacayo. 7. ^ Biography and Video Interview of Frank Gehry at Academy of Achievement (http://achievement.org /autodoc/page/geh0int-1) 8. ^ (B. Adams) 9. ^ "Hal Foster reviews ‘Frank Gehry’ edited by Jean-Louis Cohen et al · LRB 23 August 2001" (http://www.lrb.co.uk/v23/n16/hal-foster/why-allthe-hoopla) . Lrb.co.uk. http://www.lrb.co.uk /v23/n16/hal-foster/why-all-the-hoopla. Retrieved 2011-08-30. 10. ^ Favermann, Mark. "MIT Sues Architect Frank Gehry Over Flaws at Stata Center" (http://www.berkshirefinearts.com/?page=article& article_id=458&catID=26) . Berkshire Fine Arts. http://www.berkshirefinearts.com/?page=article& article_id=458&catID=26. Retrieved 2011-08-30. 11. ^ USC News (2011-01-18). "Architect Frank Gehry Named Judge Widney Professor" (http://uscnews.usc.edu/university


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/architect_frank_gehry_named_judge_widney_profes sor.html) . http://uscnews.usc.edu/university /architect_frank_gehry_named_judge_widney_profes sor.html. Retrieved 2011-01-18. ^ Bent Flyvbjerg Design by Deception: The Politics of Megaproject Approval. (http://flyvbjerg.plan.aau.dk /HARVARDDESIGN63PRINT.pdf) Harvard Design Magazine, no. 22, Spring/Summer 2005, pp. 50-59. ^ http://enr.ecnext.com/coms2 /article_bude100324FrankGehryNe-1 ^ Greiner, Andrew (2009-12-08). "Frank Gehry Designed Lady Gaga's hat" (http://www.nbcchicago.com/entertainment/celebrity /Frank-Gehry-Designed-Lady-Gaga-a-Hat78793477.html) . NBC Chicago. http://www.nbcchicago.com/entertainment/celebrity /Frank-Gehry-Designed-Lady-Gaga-a-Hat78793477.html. Retrieved 2011-01-03. ^ "American Masters: Frank Gehry" (http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database /gehry_pop/fish.html) . http://www.pbs.org /wnet/americanmasters/database/gehry_pop/fish.html. Retrieved 2008-11-17. ^ "Furniture designs" (http://www.guggenheim.org /exhibitions/past_exhibitions/gehry/furniture_01.html) . http://www.guggenheim.org/exhibitions /past_exhibitions/gehry/furniture_01.html. Retrieved 2008-11-17. ^ "Lifetime Honors - National Medal of Arts" (http://www.nea.gov/honors/medals /medalists_year.html#98) . Nea.gov. http://www.nea.gov/honors/medals /medalists_year.html#98. Retrieved 2011-08-30. ^ "Lifetime Achievement Winner: Frank Gehry" (http://www.cooperhewitt.org/NDA/WINNERS /2000/LIFETIMEACHIEVEMENT/index.shtml) . Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. http://www.cooperhewitt.org/NDA/WINNERS /2000/LIFETIMEACHIEVEMENT/index.shtml.

References Isenberg, Barbara. Conversations with Frank Gehry. Alfred A. Knopf, 2009 Sketches of Frank Gehry - Documentary Frank Gehry Architect - Guggenheim Publications 2001 El Croquis 74/75 1995 Architects Today - Laurence King Publishers Dal Co, Francesco and Forster, Kurt. W. "Frank O. Gehry: The Complete Works." Published in the United States of America in 1998 by The Monacelli Press, Inc. Copyright 1998 by The Monacelli Press, Inc. The Pritzker Architecture Prize- www.pritzkerprize.com



External links Gehry Partners, LLP (http://www.foga.com) , Gehry's architecture firm Gehry Technologies, Inc. (http://www.gehrytechnologies.com) , Gehry's technology firm Profile (http://www.pritzkerprize.com/gehry.htm) at the Pritzker Prize Frank Gehry (http://www.ted.com/speakers/frank_gehry.html/) at TED Conferences Frank Gehry (http://www.charlierose.com/guest/view/415) on Charlie Rose Frank Gehry (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0962197/) at the Internet Movie Database Works by or about Frank Gehry (http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n82-13991) in libraries (WorldCat catalog) Frank Gehry (http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/frank-gehry) collected news and commentary at The Guardian Frank Gehry (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/g/frank_gehry/) collected news and commentary at The New York Times Fish Forms: Lamps by Frank Gehry Exhibition (2010) (http://www.thejewishmuseum.org/exhibitions /gehrylamps) at The Jewish Museum (New York) STORIES OF HOUSES: Frank Gehry's House in California (http://storiesofhouses.blogspot.com /2006/02/frank-gehrys-house-in-california.html) Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frank_Gehry&oldid=454580747" Categories: Frank Gehry buildings 1929 births Canadian emigrants to the United States American people of Canadian descent

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Main article: Frank Gehry This list of Frank Gehry buildings categorizes the work of the Pritzker Prize-winning architect. His buildings, including his private residence, have become tourist attractions. Many museums, companies, and cities seek Gehry's services as a badge of distinction, beyond the product he delivers.

Contents 1 Completed 2 Works in progress 3 Un-built 4 References 5 External links

Completed Name

City

State/Country

Easy Edges furniture series

Completed

1972

Ronald Davis Studio Malibu & Residence

California

1972

Exhibit Center, Merriweather Post Pavilion, and Rouse Company Headquarters

Columbia

Maryland

1974

Sleep Train Pavilion

Concord

California

1975

Harper House

Baltimore

Maryland

1977

Santa Monica California

1978

[1]

Gehry Residence

Other Information

Image


Name

City

Loyola Law School

[2] Los Angeles

(various buildings)

Spiller House

Venice


State/Country

Completed

California

1978-2002

California

1980

Santa Monica Place


1980

Cabrillo Marine Aquarium

San Pedro

California

1981

Air and Space exhibit building, California Museum of Science and Industry

Los Angeles

California

1984

Edgemar Retail Complex


1984

Frances Howard Goldwyn Hollywood Hollywood Regional Library

California

1985

Venice Beach House Venice

California

1986

Winton Guest House Owatonna

Minnesota

1987

Other Information

Renovated from 2008-2010

Moved in 2009 to its current location at the University of St. Thomas

Image


Name

City

State/Country


Completed

Other Information

Gainey Conference Center. Yale University, New Haven

Connecticut

1989

Vitra Design Museum

Weil am Rhein

Germany

1989

Chiat/Day Building

Venice

California

1991

Iowa Advanced Technology [6] Laboratories

University of Iowa, Iowa Iowa City

1992

Disney Village

Disneyland Paris, Paris

1992

Yale Psychiatric [5]

Institute

Frederick Weisman [7]

Museum of Art

Center for the Visual Arts

[8]

Cinémathèque [9] Française

France

University of Minnesota, Minnesota Minneapolis

1993

University of Toledo, Ohio Toledo

1993

Paris

1994

France

[3][4]

Formerly Festival Disney

Image


Name

City


State/Country

Completed

Basel

Switzerland

1994

Siedlung [11] Goldstein

Frankfurt

Germany

1994

Energie Forum [12] Innovation

Bad Oeynhausen

Germany

1995

Dancing [13][14] House

Prague

Czech Republic

1995

Disney Ice (currently Anaheim Anaheim Ice)

California

1995

Team Disney [15] Anaheim

Anaheim

California

1995

Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Bilbao

Spain

1997

Germany

1999

Vitra International [10]

Headquarters

[16] Düsseldorf

Der Neue Zollhof

University of University of Cincinnati Academic Cincinnati, Ohio [17] Cincinnati Health Center

Condé Nast Publishing Headquarters [18]

Cafeteria

Times Square, New York New York City

1999

2000

Other Information

Image


Name

City


State/Country

Completed

DZ Bank building

Pariser Platz, Berlin

Germany

2000

Experience Music Project

Seattle

Washington

2000

Gehry Tower

Hanover

Germany

2001

Issey Miyake (flagship store)

New York City

New York

2001

Weatherhead School of Management Peter B. Lewis [19][20] building

Case Western Reserve Ohio University, Cleveland

2002

Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts[21][22]

Bard College, Annandale- New York on-Hudson

2003

Dundee

Scotland

2003

California

2003

Maggie's Dundee, Ninewells [23][24]

Hospital

Walt Disney Concert Los Angeles Hall

Other Information

Image


Name

City

State/Country

Massachusetts Ray and Maria Stata Institute of Massachusetts [25] Technology, Center Cambridge

Jay Pritzker Pavilion

[26]

BP Pedestrian Bridge


Completed

2004

Millennium Illinois Park, Chicago

2004

Millennium Illinois Park, Chicago

2004

[27] Herford

MARTa Museum

Germany

2005

IAC/InterActiveCorp West West Coast Hollywood Headquarters

California

2005

Marqués de Riscal [28] Vineyard Hotel

Elciego

Spain

2006

IAC Building

Chelsea, New York New York [29][30] City

2007

Los Angeles

2007

Mariza show stage, at the Walt Disney [31]

Concert Hall

California

Other Information

Image


Name

City


State/Country

Completed

Other Information

Renovation

Art Gallery of Ontario

Toronto

Ontario

2008

Peter B. Lewis [32] Library

Princeton University, Princeton

New Jersey

2008

London

England

2008

Basel

Switzerland

2009

Aarhus

Denmark

2009

Nevada

2010

Serpentine Gallery 2008 Summer Pavilion

[33]

Novartis Pharma [34]

A.G. Campus

Danish Cancer Society Counseling [35] Center

Lou Ruvo Center for Las Vegas [36] Brain Health

Ohr-O'Keefe [37] Museum Of Art

Biloxi

Mississippi

2010

Temporary

Originally planned to open in 2006, hit by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Additional buildings to open in 2012

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Name

City

New World [38] Center


State/Country

Miami Beach Florida

New York by Gehry New York at Eight Spruce City Street[39]

[40] Hong Kong

Opus Hong Kong

Completed

Other Information

Image

2011

New York

2011

China

2011

12-story residential block located at 53 Stubbs Road, developed by Swire Group.

Works in progress [41]

Biomuseo, Panama City, P anama (2012) Gary Player's Saadiyat Beach Golf Course Clubhouse, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (Expected [42][43] completion 2012–2013) Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (Expected completion 2013)[44] Faculty of Business, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia (Expected completion 2014) [45][46][47] World Trade Center site Performing Arts Complex, New York City, New York (Announced October [48][49]

2004. Construction to begin in 2015) [50][51] Frank Gehry Visitor Center at Hall Winery Napa Valley, Saint Helena, California (On Hold) Grand Avenue Project, Los Angeles, California (Project on hold) [52][53]

The Point (Five Star Hotel & Event Center), Lehi, Utah (Project on hold) [54] Suna Kıraç Cultural Center, Istanbul, Turkey (Construction yet to begin)

[55]

The Carrie Hamilton Theatre, Pasadena Playhouse, Pasadena, California Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Announced October 2006. Construction yet to begin) [56][57]

Louis Vuitton Foundation for Creation, Paris, France (Announced October 2006) [58][59] Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial, District of Columbia (Proposed - No start date yet) Cultural Center, Łódź, Poland (Design not yet accepted)[60] [citation needed ] Luxury hotel, apartments and offices, Sønderborg, Denmark


Le Parc des Ateliers SNCF, Arles, France


[citation needed ]

Un-built [61]

Le Clos Jordanne Winery, Lincoln, Ontario, Canada

[62][63]

Museum of Tolerance, Jerusalem, Israel (Gehry stepped down from t he project in March 2010) [64] Atlantic Yards, New York City, New York (No longer involved with this project)

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External links Gehry Partners, LLP (http://www.foga.com/) , Gehry's architecture firm Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_Frank_Gehry_buildings&oldid=452747758" Categories: Frank Gehry buildings Lists of buildings and structures by architect

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Coordinates: 50°04′32″N 14°24′51″E

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The Dancing House or Dancing Building or Ginger & Fred (Czech: Tančící dům) is the nickname given to the Nationale-Nederlanden building in downtown Prague, Czech Republic at Rašínovo nábřeží 80, 120 00 Praha 2. It was designed by Croatian-Czech architect Vlado Milunić in co-operation with Canadian-American architect Frank Gehry on a vacant riverfront plot (where the previous building had been destroyed during the Bombing of Prague in 1945). The

Dancing House Tančící dům

building was designed in 1992 and completed in 1996.[1]

Windows of the Dancing House

The very non-traditional design was controversial at the time. Czech president Václav Havel, who lived for decades next to the site, had supported it, hoping that the building would become a center of

cultural activity. Originally named Fred and Ginger (after Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers - the house resembles a pair of danc ers) the house stands out among the Baroque, Gothic and Art Nouveau buildings for which Prague is famous. Others have nicknamed it "Drunk House".

Side view Former names

General information

Rašínovo nábřeží 80, 1 20 00

Address

On the roof is a French restaurant with views of the city. The building's other tenants include several multinational firms.

Fred and Ginger

Praha 2 Town or city

Prague

Country

Czech Republic

Coordinates Construction

1992

started Completed

1996 Design and c onstruction

Architect

References

Vlado Milunić, Frank Gehry

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1. ^ Nationale-Nederlanden Building (http://www.arcspace.com/gehry_new/index.html?main=/gehry_new/prague /prag.htm) Frank O. Gehry, The Architect's Studio. Digital catalog of the Henry Art Gallery at arcspace (http://www.arcspace.com/)

External links This is largest panorama of the Dancing House (http://gigapan.org/gigapans/7677/) 360 Panorama Photos of the Dancing House (http://www.360cities.net/image/the-dancing-house) Dancing House Prague by Frank Gehry (http://www.galinsky.com/buildings/dancinghouse/index.htm) Radio Prague article with Vlado Milunic (http://www.radio.cz/en/article/42866) Restaurant at the Dancing House (http://www.celesterestaurant.cz/en/) Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dancing_House&oldid=447194470" Categories: Buildings and structures in Prague Buildings and structures completed in 1996 Frank Gehry buildings

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Coordinates: 43°39′14″N 79°23′34″W

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The Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO AGO) (French: Musée des beaux-arts de l'Ontario) is an art museum in Toronto's Downtown Grange Park district, district, on Dundas Street West between McCaul McCa ul Street Street and a nd Beverley Street. Its collection includes more than 68,000 works spanning the 1st century to the present-day. The gallery has 45,000 square metres (480,000 sq ft) of physical space. It includes the world's world's largest collection collection of Canadian Ca nadian art, which depicts the development of Canada's heritage from pre-Confederation to the present. Indeed, works by Canadian artists make up more than half ha lf of the AGO's collection. The museum also has an impressive impressive collection of European Europe an art, a rt, including the most important important coll c ollection ection of Medieval and Renaissance decorative dec orative arts outside Europe and a nd the United States, major works by Tintoretto, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Peter Paul Rubens, Rembrandt van Rijn, Rijn, Thomas Gainsborough, Gainsborough, Anthony van v an Dyck, Emile Antoine Bourdelle, and Frans Hals, and works by other renowned artists a rtists such such as Pablo Pa blo Picasso, Auguste Auguste Rodin, Vincent Van Gogh, and Edgar Degas. In addition to these, the AGO also has one of the t he most signifi significant cant collections of African African art in North America, as well we ll as a contemporary art a rt collection illustrating illustrating the evolution of modern artistic movements movements in Canada, the United States, and Europe, including works by Andy Warhol, Claes Oldenburg, and Jenny Holzer. Holzer. Finally, the AGO is home to the Henry Moore Sculpture Centre, which houses the largest public collection of works by this British British sculptor. Moore's bronze work, Two Large Forms (1966–1969) greets visitors at the museum's north façade, at the intersection of Dundas and McCaul Streets.

Contents 1 History 2 Transformation AGO 3 Collection X 4 Major works 5 See also 6 References 7 External links

History

Art Gallery of Ontario

Established

1900

Location

317 Dundas Street West, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Type Visitor Visitor figures f igures

Art museum 878,478 (2009-10) [1] Ranked Ranked 1st nationally Ranked Ranked 56th 56t h globally

Director

Matthew Teitelbaum[2]

President

Tony Gagliano [3]

Curator

Dennis Dennis Reid R eid[2]

Public transit

■ St. Patrick

access

505 Dundas

Website

Art Gallery of Ontario (http://www.ago.net)



The museum was founded in 1900 by b y a group of private citizens, who incorporated the institution as the Art Museum of Toronto. The Legislative Legislative Assembly of Ontario subsequently enacted e nacted An Act respecting the Art Museum of Toronto in 1903. The museum was renamed the Art Gallery of Toronto in 1919, and subsequently the Art Gallery Galler y of Ontario in 1966.

A south view of the first gallery building in 1922

The current location of the AGO dates to 1910, when the gallery was willed willed the estate known as the Grange, a historic Georgian manor built built in 1817, upon the death de ath of Goldwin Goldwin Smith. Smith. In 1911, 1 911, the museum leased lands to the south of the manor to the t he City of Toronto Toronto in perpetuity so as to create Grange Park. In 1920, the museum also allowed the Ontario College College of Art to construct a building on the grounds.

The museum's first first formal exhibitions exhibitions were opened in the Grange in 1913. In 1916, the t he museum decided to begin construction of a small small portion portion of a planned new ne w gallery gallery building building.. Designed Designed by Pearson Pe arson and Darling in the Beaux-Arts style, excavation excava tion of the new ne w facility facility began in 1916, and a nd the first first galleries galleries opened in 1918. Expansion E xpansion throughout the 20th 20t h century cent ury added various galleries, galleries, culminating culminating in in 1993, which left the AGO with 38,400 square metres (413,000 sq ft) of interior space. As the institution and its collections grew, grew, major benefactors bene factors included Harris Ha rris Henry Fudger, Walter Walter C. Laidlaw, Joey Tanenba Tanenbaum, um, George Weston, Weston, Frank P orter Wood, Edward Rogers Wood, Wood, Ayala Ayala Zacks and a nd the Eaton family.

Transformation AGO Under the direction of its CEO Matthew Teitelbaum, the AGO embarked on a $254 million (later increased to $276 million) redevelopment plan by architect Frank Gehry in 2004, called Transformation GO. The new addition would require demolition demolition of the 1992 Post-Modernis P ost-Modernistt The newly constructed façade of wing by Barton Myers and Kuwabara the AGO along Dundas Street The titanium and glass south wing Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects overlooking the Grange and (KPMB). Although Gehry was born in Grange Park Toronto, and as a child c hild had lived in the same neighbourhood as the AGO, the expansion of the gallery gallery represented repre sented his first work in Canada. Gehry was commissioned commissioned to expand e xpand and a nd revitalize the AGO, not to design a new building; as such, one of the challenges he faced was to unite the disparate areas of the building that had ha d become a bit of a "hodgepodge" "hod gepodge" after six previous expansions dating back to the 1920s.[4] Kenneth Thomson was a major benefactor bene factor of Transformation Transformation AGO, donating much much of his h is art collection to the gallery gallery as well we ll as providing providing $50 mill million ion towards the renovation. Thomson died in 2006, two years y ears before the project was complete. The project initially initially drew some criticism criticism.. As an expansion, expa nsion, rather than a new creation, creat ion, concerns were raised ra ised that the new AGO would not look like a Gehry signature building,[5] and that the opportunity to build an entirely



new gallery, gallery, perhaps pe rhaps on Toronto's Toronto's waterfront, was being squandered. During the course of the redevelopment re development planning, planning, board member and patron Joey Tanenba Tanenbaum um temporarily temporarily resigned resigned his position position due to concerns conce rns over donor recogni rec ognition, tion, design issues issues surrounding the new building, building, as well as the cost of the project. The public rift was subsequently healed.[6]

The Gehry-designed spiral

Galleria Italia

The AGO reopened in November 2008, with the transformation project having increased the art viewing space by 47%. 4 7%. Notable elements of the expanded building building include include a new entrance entra nce aligned with the gallery's historic historic Walker Walker Court and the Grange, and a new ne w four-storey south wing, wing, clad in glass glass and blue titanium, overlooking both the Grange and Grange Park. The outwardly most characteristic charac teristic element of the design however is a new glass and wood façade - the Galleria Italia spanning 180 metres (590 ft) along a long Dundas Dundas Street; it was named in recognition of a $13million contribution by 26 Italian-Canadian families families of Toronto, a funding consortium led by Tony Gagliano, Gagliano, who currently serves as the President o the AGO's Board of o f Trustees. Trustees.

stairwell in i n Walker Walker Court

The completed expansion received wide acclaim, notably for the restraint of its design. An editorial in the Globe and Mail called called it a "restrained masterpiece", noting: "The "The proof of Mr. Gehry's genius lies lies in his deft adaptation to unusual circumstances. By his standards, it was to be done on the cheap, for a mere $276-milli $276-million. on. The museum's administrators administrators and neighbours were adamant that the architect, arc hitect, who is used to being handed whole city blocks for over-the-top titanium confections, produce a lower-key design, design, sensitive sensitive to its context and the t he gallery's long long history."[7] The Toronto Star called it "the easiest, most effortless and relaxed architectural masterpiece this city has seen",[8] with the Washington Post commenting: commenting: "Gehry's real re al accomplishment in Toronto is the reprogramming of a complicated amalgam of old spaces. That's not sexy, like York Times wrote: "Rather titanium curves, but it's essential essential to the project."[5] The architecture critic of the New York than a tumultuous creation, this may be one of Mr. Gehry’s most most gentle and self-possessed designs. designs. It is not a perfect building, building, yet its billowi billowing ng glass glass facad facade, e, which evokes a crystal ship drifting drifting through the city, is a masterly masterly example of how to breathe life into a staid old structure. And its interiors underscore one of the most underrated dimensions dimensions of Mr. Gehry’s Gehry’s immense immense talent: a supple feel for context conte xt and an a n ability ability to balance ba lance exuberance exu berance with delicious moments of restraint. Instead of tearing tea ring apart the th e old museum, Mr. Gehry carefully threaded new [9] ramps, walkways and stairs through the original." original."

Collection X In keeping with web 2.0 trends, t rends, the AGO has initiated initiated a social media website called Collection X, which provides users with with a space to share ideas about life life and art. art . Collection Collection X showcases the work of contemporary photographers and visual artists artists and gives gives users the ability ability to discuss the works, create online exhibitions exhibitions and upload their own content.

Major works



Alfred Agache - L'Épée Pieter Brueghel the Younger -

The Peasants’ Wedding Emily Carr - Gitwangak, Queen Charlotte Islands Edgar Degas - Woman at her Bath The Harvest Ha rvest Wagon Wagon Massacre of the Giovanni del Biondo - Vision of The West Wind by by Thomas Innocents by Peter St. Benedict Tom Thomson Paul Rubens, donated donated Gainsborough Portr ait of a Carel Fabritius - Portrait to the AGO by Seated Woman with a Kenneth Thomson Handkerchief Handkerchie f Thomas Gainsborough - The Harvest Wagon Portr ait of Isaak Abrahamsz. Massa Frans Hals - Portrait Augustus John - Marchesa Casati Northwest: Portrait of John Henry Lefroy Paul Kane - Scene in the Northwest: Count ry Ball B all in Canada, The Blacksmith's Shop, Cornelius Krieghoff - Breaking up of a Country Rock ies", Rowanberries Rowanberr ies or Mountain Mount ain Ash J.E.H. MacDonald - " Lake O'Hara, Rockies Portr ait of Mrs. Hastings Amadeo Modigliani - Portrait Summer Claude Monet - Vétheuil in Summer Paul Peel - The Little Shepherdess Boie ldieu in Rouen, R ouen, Rainy Weather Camille Camille Pissarro - Pont Boieldieu Reachi ng Up to the Left Lef t , Massacre of the Peter Paul Rubens - Anatomical Study of a Man Reaching Innocents Eveni ng, Canoe Lake", Sunset, " Algonquin Park" , The West Wind Tom Thomson - Early Spring , " Evening, James Tissot - The Shop Girl Tintoretto - Christ Washing the Disciples' Feet Half -Sickk of Shado Shadows," ws,"said said The Lady of Shalott Shal ott John William Willi am Waterhouse Waterhouse - "I am Half-Sic Portr ait of Henry VIII VI II After Hans Holbein the Younger - Portrait

See also Ontario Association of Art Galleries Galleries Royal Ontario Museum

References 1. ^ "AGO attendance set record in 2009-10" (http://www.cbc.ca /arts/artdesign/story/2010/06/24/art-gallery-agm.html) . cbc.ca. June 24, 2010. http://www.cbc.ca/arts/artdesign/story/2010/06/24/art-galleryagm.html. Art Gallery of Ontario sculpture court, 2. ^ a b "Curator / Director / C hief Curator Fact Sheet" 1929 (http://www.google.ca/search?client=opera&rls=en& q=Curator+of+AGO&sourceid=opera&ie=utf-8&oe=utf8&channel=suggest) . Art Gallery of Ontario. Art Gallery of Ontario. http://www.google.ca/search?client=opera& rls=en&q=Curator+of+AGO&sourceid=opera&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&channel=suggest. Retrieved 26 July 2011. 3. ^ "AGO Appoints New President" (http://www.ago.net/AGO-Appoints-New-President) . Art Gallery of Ontario. Art Gallery of Ontario. http://www.ago.net/AGO-Appoints-New-President. Retrieved 26 July 2011. 4. ^ The Art Gallery of Ontario by Frank Gehry (http://www.designboom.com/contemporary (http://www.designboom.com/contemporary

Art Gallery of Ontario - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Art_Gallery_of_Ontario&print..

/art_gallery_of_ontario.html) . designboom. Retrieved February 2, 2009. 5. ^ a b Kennicott, Philip. A Complex Legacy (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11 /25/AR2008112502140.html?sub=AR) . The Washington Post . November 30, 2008. Retrieved February 2, 2009. 6. ^ Hume, Christopher. Art in his blood and steel in his bones (http://www.thestar.com/comment/columnists/article /591251) . Toronto Star . February 22, 2009. Retrieved April 13, 2009 7. ^ Restrained Masterpiece (http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081113.weAGO14/BNStory /specialComment/feature-topic) . The Globe and Mail. November 13, 2008. Retrieved February 2, 2009. 8. ^ Hume, Christopher. Revamped AGO a modest masterpiece (http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/article /535107) . Toronto Star . November 13, 2008. Retrieved February 2, 2009. 9. ^ Ouroussoff, Nicolai. Gehry Puts a Very Different Signature on His Old Hometown’s Museum (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/15/arts/design/15gehr.html) . New York Times. Page C1: November 14, 2008. Retrieved February 2, 2009.

External links Art Gallery of Ontario (http://www.ago.net/) Collection X (http://www.collectionx.museum/) The Canadian Encyclopedia entry for the AGO (http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0000330) Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Art_Gallery_of_Ontario&oldid=453819963" Categories: Art museums and galleries in Ontario Museums in Toronto Pearson and Darling buildings

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The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is a museum of modern and contemporary art, designed by Canadian-American

Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

architect Frank Gehry, built by Ferrovial[3], and located in Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain. It is built alongside the Nervion River, which runs through the city of Bilbao to the Atlantic Coast. The Guggenheim is one of several museums belonging to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. The museum features permanent and visiting exhibits of works by Spanish and international artists. One of the most admired works of contemporary architecture, the building has been hailed as a "signal moment in the architectural culture", because it represents "one of those rare moments when critics, academics, and the general public were all completely united about something."[4] The museum was the building most frequently named as one of the most important works completed since 1980 in the 2010 World Architecture Survey among architecture experts.[4]

Contents 1 Building 2 Exhibitions 3 Transport 4 Media impact 5 See also 6 References 7 External links

Building

Museo Guggenheim Bilbao

The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, along the Nervión River in downtown Bilbao Established

October 18, 1997

Location

Abando, Bilbao, Spain

Type

Art museum

Visitor

1,002,963 (2007)

figures

951,369 (2008)

Director

Juan Ignacio Vidarte

Website

Official website

[1]

[2]

(http://www.guggenheim-bilbao.es)



The curves on the building were to appear random. The architect said that "the randomness of the curves are designed to catch the light".[5] When it was opened to the public in 1997, it was immediately hailed as one of the world's most spectacular buildings in the style of Deconstructivism, although Gehry does not associate himself with that architectural movement. Architect Philip Johnson called it "the greatest building of our time".[6]

The museum is clad in glass, titanium, and limestone

The museum's design and construction serve as an object lesson in Gehry's style and method. Like many of Gehry's other works, it has a structure that consists of radically sculpted, organic contours. Sited as it is in a port town, it is intended to resemble a ship. Its brilliantly reflective titanium panels resemble fish scales, echoing the other organic life (and, in particular, fish-like) forms that recur commonly in Gehry's designs, as well as the river Nervión upon which the museum sits. Also in typical Gehry fashion, the building is uniquely a product of the period's technology. Computer Aided Three Dimensional Interactive Application (CATIA) and visualizations were used heavily in the structure's design.

Computer simulations of the building's structure made it feasible to build shapes that architects of earlier eras would have found nearly impossible to construct. While the museum is a spectacular monument from the river, at street level it is quite modest and does not overwhelm its traditional surroundings. [citation needed ]

The museum was opened as part of a revitalization effort for the city of Bilbao and for the Basque Country. Almost immediately after its opening, the Guggenheim Bilbao became a popular tourist attraction, drawing visitors from around the globe.[6] It was widely credited with "putting Bilbao on the map" and subsequently inspired other structures of similar design across the globe, such as the Cerritos Millennium Library in Cerritos, California.

The museum by night, November 2007

The building was constructed on time and budget, which is rare for architecture of this type. In an interview in Harvard Design Magazine[7] Gehry explained how he did it. First, he ensured that what he calls the "organization of the artist" prevailed during construction, in order to prevent political and business interests from interfering with the design. Second, he made sure he had a detailed and realistic cost estimate before proceeding. Third, he used CATIA and close collaboration with the individual building trades to control costs during construction.

Exhibitions



The exhibitions in the museum itself change often, the museum hosts thematic exhibitions, centered for example on Chinese or Russian art.[citation needed ] The museum's permanent collection concerns 20th century art—traditional paintings and sculptures are a minority compared to installations and electronic forms. The highlight of the collection, and its only permanent exhibit, is The Matter of Time, a series of weathering steel sculptures designed by Richard Serra and housed in the 430-foot (130 m) Arcelor Gallery (formerly known as the Fish Gallery but renamed in 2005 for the steel manufacturer that sponsored the project[8]). The collections usually highlight Avant-garde art, 20th century abstraction, and non-objective art.[9]

Transport There is a tramway stop called Guggenheim 100 meters away from the museum. Line 18 of the bus system also has a nearby stop. The museum is located 500 meters north of Moyua station on the Bilbao Metro.

The Matter of Time by Richard Serra in the Arcelor Gallery

Media impact The building can be seen in the 1999 James Bond filmThe World Is Not Enough in the opening sequence where Bond (played by Pierce Brosnan) steals a case of British money from a corrupt Swiss banker (played by Patrick Malahide) affiliated with the villain Renard's terrorist network. [1] Tulips by Jeff Koons (http://www.jamesbondmm.co.uk/bond-villains/patrick-malahide) The building was featured in Rajinikanth's mega-budget flick, Sivaji: The Boss by S. Shankar for the song Style composed by music composer, A.R. Rahman. The song sequence, choreographed by Prabhu Deva, was shot for 16 [10]

days. The building was featured on a poster presented to Arthur Read and his friends by Frank Gehry on the television series that was named after Arthur. The poster had Gehry's signature on it. Mariah Carey's music video "Sweetheart", directed by Hype Williams, shows singers Dupri and Carey in various locations at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao.[11] The building is featured in the computer game SimCity 4 as a buildable landmark.

See also



Guggenheim family The Globalized City, a publication doing case studies on the museum as a large scale development project The organization of the artist URSPIC, a research project that analysed impacts of the museum on Bilbao 12 Treasures of Spain

References

Puppy by Jeff Koons in front of the museum

1. ^ http://www.aol.es/noticias/story/El-Museo-Guggenheim-de-Bilbao-recibi %C3%B3-en-2007-1.002.963-visitantes,-un-0,6%25-menos-que-en-2006/3380584/index.html 2. ^ http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2009/01/12/cultura/1231778022.html 3. ^ Ferrovial history (http://www.ferrovial.com/en/index.asp?MP=14&MS=254&MN=3) 4. ^ a b Tyrnauer, Matt (30 June 2010). "Architecture in the Age of Gehry" (http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features /2010/08/architecture-survey-201008?currentPage=all) . Vanity Fair . http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features /2010/08/architecture-survey-201008?currentPage=all. Retrieved 22 July 2010. 5. ^ Aggerwal, Artika. "Frank Owen Gerty" (http://www.archinomy.com/case-studies /1931/frank-owen-gehry) . http://www.archinomy.com/case-studies/1931/frank-owen-gehry. Retrieved August 18, 2011. a b 6. ^ Lee, Denny (September 23, 2007). "Bilbao, 10 Years Later" (http://travel.nytimes.com/2007/09/23/travel /23bilbao.html?em&ex=1190606400&en=898bb5be11939f56&ei=5087%0A) . The New York Times. http://travel.nytimes.com/2007/09/23/travel/23bilbao.html?em&ex=1190606400&en=898bb5be11939f56& ei=5087%0A 7. ^ Bent Flyvbjerg Design by Deception: The Politics of Megaproject Approval. (http://flyvbjerg.plan.aau.dk /HARVARDDESIGN63PRINT.pdf) Harvard Design Magazine, no. 22, Spring/Summer 2005, pp. 50-59. 8. ^ Bird's-eye rendering of the Arcelor Gallery with layout of installation "The Matter of Time" (http://www.artnet.com/Magazine/news/artnetnews2/artnetnews4-13-2.asp) 9. ^ Guggenheim Museum Bilbao: About (http://www.artinfo.com/galleryguide/23119/9637/about/the-guggenheim bilbao-bilbao/) . ARTINFO. 2008. http://www.artinfo.com/galleryguide/23119/9637/about/the-guggenheim-bilbao bilbao/. Retrieved 2008-07-28 10. ^ Skin Grafting in 'Sivaji' (http://www.indiaglitz.com/channels/tamil/gallery/Events/12540.html) 11. ^ Sweetheart (song)

External links Guggenheim Museum Bilbao website (http://www.guggenheim-bilbao.es/?idioma=en) Google Maps satellite view of Guggenheim Museum Bilbao (http://maps.google.com /maps?ll=43.268774,-2.934122&spn=0.005178,0.010131&t=k&hl=en) Gehry on how to build on time and budget (http://flyvbjerg.plan.aau.dk /HARVARDDESIGN63PRINT.pdf) Scholars on Bilbao - academic works that analyse Bilbao's urban regeneration (http://www.scholarson-bilbao.info/) Guggenheim Museum Bilbao - Project for Public Spaces Hall of Shame (http://www.pps.org /gps/one?public_place_id=827) Pictures of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao (http://elarq.com/galeria/thumbnails.php?album=61) Guggenheim Museum in an artistic short movie (http://vimeo.com/2629513) Bilbao. Basque Pathways to Globalization (http://books.emeraldinsight.com /display.asp?K=9780080453248) , the first book-length work in English to analyze the relationships between the city of Bilbao and globalization processes. Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Guggenheim_Museum_Bilbao&oldid=454884879"


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The EMP Museum (formerly known as Experience Music Project and Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame or EMP|SFM ) is a museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction located in Seattle, Washington. The Frank Gehry-designed museum building is located on the campus of the Seattle Center, adjacent to the Space Needle and the Seattle Center Monorail, which runs through the building.

View of the EMP Museum from the Seattle Center

with the monorail traveling through it The EMP Museum was founded by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, and opened its doors in 2000. EMP struggled financially in its early years; as a result, Allen established the Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame (SFM), which opened in 2004 in the south wing of the EMP building. When SFM opened, EMP and SFM were treated as separate museums, and visitors had the option of purchasing admission to one museum, or, at a higher cost, a combined admission to both. In 2007, after mounting criticism, EMP|SFM ended the separate admissions policy and began charging a single admission

price for entrance to both the EMP and SFM wings.[1] The Science Fiction Museum was closed in March 2011. Monorail tracks going through the

EMP has provided funding for radio station KEXP in partne rship with [2]

EMP/SFM building

the University of Washington. EMP was also the site of the demo and concert program for the first international conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME-01) and the Pop Conference, an annual gathering of academics, critics, musicians and music buffs. The EMP in collaboration with SIFF operates the Science Fiction Fantasy Short Film Festival (SFFSFF). Sffsff takes place annually every winter in Seattle, Washington at the world renowned Seattle Cinerama Theater. The festival brings together industry professionals in filmmaking and the genres of science fiction and fantasy to encourage and support new, creative additions to science fiction and fantasy cinema arts.

Contents 1 Experience Music Project 1.1 Collections 1.2 Past exhibitions[3] 2 Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame 2.1 Past exhibitions 2.2 Science Fiction Hall of Fame 3 Architecture



4 Finances 5 References 6 External links

Experience Music Project The museum contains mostly rock memorabilia and technology-intensive multimedia displays. The EMP Museum showcases rare artifacts from popular music history and allows the visitor to experience music through interactive exhibitions like Sound Lab and On Stage. The Northwest passage was dedicated to the history of Seattle music, including Jimi Hendrix, Heart, and the grunge music genre.

Collections orthwest Passage was formerly part of the permanent collection. It contained exhibits on the history of popular music in the Pacific Northwest. Exhibits include Bing Crosby (Tacoma, Washington), The Kingsmen (Portland, Oregon), Heart (Seattle, Washington), The Presidents of the United States of America (Seattle, Washington), Sir Mix-a-Lot (Seattle, Washington), Nirvana (Aberdeen, Washington, via Seattle), and Pearl Jam (Seattle, Washington) . Also included are some less famous artists including Queensrÿche (Bellevue, Washington) and Culprit, and bands far more obscure, such as The Pudz (Seattle, Washington). Numerous video clips show interviews and performance footage, and extensive commentary and a dditional recordings are available via iPod audio guides (specially programmed iPods that can be rented, for a fee, from a desk on the second floor). In April, 2011 The Northwest Passage was de-installed to make room for the Nirvana: Taking Punk to the Masses exhibit.

Nighttime view of the EMP Museum.

The Guitar Gallery is dedicated to the history of the guitar. The massive sculpture entitled Roots and Branches was conceived by UK exhibit An exterior view of the building designer Neal Potter and developed by Trimpin and made largely out of musical instruments, especially guitars, which are played by electronically controlled devices. The Sound Lab allows museum-goers to learn the basics of playing various instruments and On Stage features a simulated onstage experience. EMP introduced a travelling collection exhibit in 2002 entitled Disco: A Decade of Saturday Nights. It remained in Seattle, WA for one year, then in 2003 it moved to the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan and in 2004 to the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. It has since been retired.

Past exhibitions

[3]

Temporary exhibitions Jimi Hendrix: An Evolution of Sound: On-going;



Exhibit illustrates Hendrix's musical evolution from his early days in Seattle, to his time as a journeyman musician touring the southern "chitlin' circuit" and in New York City, to his explosion on the popular music scene in London and beyond. Ref lections: The Mary Wilson Supreme Legacy Collection: Through September 6, 2010; A collection of more than fifty costumes worn by the Supremes. Past exhibitions Artist to Icon: Early Photographs of Elvis, Dylan, and the Beatles: January 19, 2001 – May 1, 2001; The exhibition includes 48 black-and-white photographs by five photographers. The photos, taken between 1956 and 1965 show early moments from Elvis, Bob Dylan, and The Beatles. Disco: A Decade of Saturday Night: February 2003 – October 2003 Nirvana: April 2003 – October 2004; Chronicles the first half of Nirvana’s career from 1987-1990, among the collection was rare 1990 footage of the band in Olympia, Washington, including Dave Grohl's first appearance as their drummer. Milestones: April 2003 – October 2004; Featured a series of interconnected exhibitions celebrating diverse expressions of creativity and the independent spirit of rock 'n' roll. Highlights included the roots of rock, a focus on three key innovators—Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton and Janis Joplin. Paper Scissors ROCK: 25 Years of Northwest Punk Poster Design: May 2003- September 2003; This exhibit explored the last 25 years of music-related poster art from the Pacific Northwest. Jimi Hendrix: June 7, 2003 – August 5, 2007 Sweet Home Chicago, Big City Blues, 1946-1966 Traveling Exhibition: September 2003 - January 2004 Annie Leibovitz: November 2003 - January 2004 Springsteen - Troubadour of the Highway: January 2004- April 2004 Costumes from the Vault: June 2004- January 2007; This exhibit featured costumes and clothing from a variety of musicians, superheroes and science-fiction stars. Included were Michael Jackson’s sequined jacket and jeweled glove, Jimi Hendrix’s “psychedelic dandy” outfit, and the Superman costume from the original television series. Beatlemania! America Meets the Beatles, 1964: February 2004- December 2005 Songcraft: The Art & Craf t of Songwriting: July 2004-January 2006 Bob Dylan’s American Journey, 1956-1966: November 2004 – October 2006 Yes Yes Y’all: The Fir st Decade of Hip-Hop: June 18, 2005 - January 6, 2008



Art of Modern Rock: The Poster Explosion: May 2006 - October 2006 Disney: The Music Behind the Magic: November 4, 2006 - September 9, 2007 American Sabor: Latinos in U.S. Popular Music: October 13, 2007 - September 7, 2008; The first interpretive museum exhibition to tell the story of the profound influence and impact of Latinos in American popular music. The exhibition was created in partnership with guest curators from the University of Washington. Message to Love: Remembering and Reclaiming: January 26, 2008 - April 6, 2008; Jimi Hendrix exhibit focused on the visitor’s experience and the visitor connection with Hendrix. American Letterpress: The Art of Hatch Show Print: October 11, 2008- July 16, 2009; Features the work of one of the nation's oldest operating printing shops—Nashville, Tennessee's Hatch Show Print—the exhibition highlights the uniquely American posters produced to advertise everything from vaudeville shows, state fairs and stock car races to the Grand Ole Opry, Elvis Presley and Herbie Hancock.

Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame The Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame was one of two public science fiction museums in the world (along with Maison d'Ailleurs, a science fiction museum in Yverdon-les-Bains (Switzerland). The Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame was founded by Paul Allen and Jody Patton and opened to the public on June 18, 2004. Members of the museum's advisory board include Steven Spielberg, Ray Bradbury, James Cameron, a nd George Lucas. Among its collection of artifacts are Captain Kirk's command chair fromStar Trek , the B9 robot from Lost in Space, the Death Star model from Star Wars, the T800 Terminator and the dome from the film Silent Running . The X Prize trophy is currently on display in the museum's lobby. The museum was divided into several galleries with a common theme such as "Homeworld," "Fantastic Voyages," "Brave New Worlds" and "Them!". Each gallery displays related memorabilia (movie props, first editions, costumes and models) in large display cases, posters, and interactive displays to sketch out the different [4]

subjects. "From robots to jet packs to space suits and ray guns, it's all here."

The EMP Museum is currently hosting a special exhibition that opened on October 23, 2010 on Battlestar Galactica, with original props and cast members as guest speakers. On June 4, 2011, the EMP Museum opene d Avatar: The Exhibition, housed in the former SFM wing of the building.

Past exhibitions Alien Encounters: September 10, 2006 - October 30, 2007 Featured 33 original paintings of artists’ envisions of aliens over the past 70 years. Artists included Frank Kelly Freas and Ed Emshwiller. Out of this World: Extraordinary Costumes from Film and Television: June 16, 2007 - September 30, 2007 Featured costumes from Star Wars, Blade Runner , The Terminator , Star Trek , Battlestar Galactica, and many more of the most popular films and television shows of all time. Innersphere: Sculptural Works by Rik Allen: November 17, 2007 - April 27, 2008 Featured glass and metal sculptural rocket ships symbolizing journeys of outward exploration and inward discovery by Washington artist Rik Allen



Jim Henson's Fantastic World : May 23-August 16, 2009 Jim Henson (1936-1990)—artist, puppeteer, film director and producer—created elaborate imaginary worlds filled with unique characters, objects, environments and even languages and cultures. His work is enjoyed in dozens of languages in more than 100 countries. Jim Henson's Fantastic World offers a rare peek into the imagination and creative genius of this multitalented innovator and creator of Kermit the Frog, Big Bird and other beloved characters.[5] Robots: A Designer's Collection of Miniature Mechanical Marvels: May 16, 2008 - May 3, 2009 A Collection from designer Tom Geismar. Inspired by antique tin and wooden toys, samurai warriors and mid-20th century Japanese film characters.

Science Fiction Hall of Fame The Hall of Fame was founded as the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame in 1996 by the Kansas City Science Fiction and Fantasy Society (Kansas City, Missouri) and the Center for the Study of Science Fiction at the University of Kansas. The Hall of Fame moved to Seattle in 2004, stopped recognizing fantasy authors, and became part of the Science Fiction Museum. At the time of its founding, only authors were eligible for inclusion. Beginning in 2005, the Hall of Fame was expanded to include media outside the literary, and reduc ed the number of authors honored e ach year from four to two. Nominations and inductions are now made in four categories: Film, Literature, Media, and Open. Since its founding the Hall of Fame has had two Chairmen: Keith Stokes (1996–2001) and Robin Wayne Bailey (2002–present). Science Fiction Hall of Fame Inductees[6] 1996: Jack Williamson; A.E. van Vogt; John W. Campbell, Jr.; Hugo Gernsback 1997: Andre Norton; Arthur C. Clarke; H.G. Wells; Isaac Asimov 1998: Hal Clement; Frederik Pohl; C.L. Moore; Robert A. Heinlein 1999: Ray Bradbury; Robert Silverberg; Jules Verne; Abraham Merritt 2000: Poul Anderson; Gordon Dickson; Theodore Sturgeon; Eric Frank Russell 2001: Jack Vance; Ursula K. Le Guin; Alfred Bester; Fritz Leiber 2002: Samuel R. Delany; Michael Moorcoc k; James Blish; Donald A. Wollheim 2003: Wilson Tucker; Kate Wilhelm; Damon Founders Circle at the Science Fiction Museum and Knight; Edgar Rice Burroughs Hall of Fame 2004: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley; E.E. Smith; Harry Harrison; Brian Aldiss 2005: Steven Spielberg; Philip K. Dick; Chesley Bonestell; Ray Harryhausen 2006: George Lucas; Frank Herbert; Frank Kelly Freas; Anne McCaffery 2007: Gene Wolfe; Ridley Scott; Ed Emshwiller; Gene Roddenberry 2008: Ian Ballantine; Betty Ballantine; Rod Serling; William Gibson; Richard M. Powers 2009: Edward L. Ferman; Michael Whelan; Frank R. P aul; Connie Willis 2010: Octavia E. Butler; Richard Matheson; Douglas Trumbull; Roger Zelazny 2011: Vincent Di Fate; Gardner Dozois; Harlan Ellison; Jean Giraud



Architecture The structure itself was designed by Frank Gehry, and resembles many of his firm's other works in its sheet-metal construction, such as Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Walt Disney Concert Hall and Gehry Tower. Much of the building material is exposed in the building's interior. The building contains 140,000 square feet (13,000 m2), with a 35,000square-foot (3,300 m2) footprint. The central "Sky Church" room pays homage to Jimi Hendrix and other rock 'n' roll icons using a 40-foot (12 m) high, 70-foot (21 m) wide video [7]

screen and an 18-panel montage of images. The last structural steel beam to be put in place bears the signatures of all construction workers who were on site on the day it was erected. Hoffman Construction Company of Portland, Oregon was the general contractor.

Design by Frank Gehry.

Even before groundbreaking, Seattle Weekly said the design could refer to "the often quoted comparison to a smashed electric guitar." Indeed, Gehry himself had made the comparison, "We started collecting pictures of [8]

Stratocasters, bringing in guitar bodies, drawing on those shapes in developing our ideas." The architecture was greeted by Seattle residents with a mixture of acclaim for Gehry and derision for this particular edifice. "Frank Gehry," remarked British-born, Seattle-based writer Jonathan Raban, "has created some wonderful buildings, like the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, but his Seattle effort, the Experience Music Project, is not one of them."[9] New York Times architecture critic Herbert Muschamp described it as "something that crawled [10]

out of the sea, rolled over, and died."

Forbes magazine called it one of the world's 10 ugliest buildings.

[10]

Others describe it as a "blob"[11] or call it "The Hemorrhoids".[9] Despite some critical reviews of the structure, the building has been called “a fitting backdrop for the world's largest collection of Jimi Hendrix memorabilia.”

[12]

The outside of the building which features a fusion of

textures and colors, including gold, silver, deep red, blue and a "shimmering purple haze,"[13] has been declared "an apt representation of the American rock experience."[14]

Finances



The museum has had mixed financial success.[15][16] In an effort to make ends meet, the "blue blob" at the south end of the museum—which originally housed the "Artist's Journey" exhibit, a motion platform ride featuring funk music—now houses Avatar: The Exhibition. In an effort to raise more funds, museum organizers used Allen's extensive art collection to create a 2006 exhibit within the confines of the EMP.[17] The exhibit, which had nothing to do with either music or science fiction, was entitled DoubleTake: From Monet to Lichtenstein. The exhibit included Roy Lichtenstein's The Kiss (1962), Pierre-Auguste Renoir's The Reader (1877), Vincent van Gogh's Orchard with Peach Trees in Blossom (1888), Pablo Picasso's Four Bathers (1921) and several works of art from Claude Monet including one of the Water [18]

Lilies paintings (1919) and The Mula Palace (1908). There have also been repeated lay-offs of museum staff in an attempt to cut costs. A subsequent exhibit — Sound and Vision: Artists Tell Their Stories, which opened February 28, 2007 — had far more connection to the museums' missions. The first exhibit at the complex to bring together both music and science fiction in a single exhibit, Sound and Vision

The Sky church.

draws on the EMP Museum's collections of oral history recordings.[19]

References 1. ^ Haley Edwards, EMP and SFM slash their ticket price (http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/artsentertainment /2003616363_webemptickets14.html) , Seattle Times, March 14, 2007. Accessed online 24 March 2007. 2. ^ DeRoche, Jeff (April 12, 2001 – April 18, 2001). "Radio Ga-Ga" (http://www.thestranger.com/seattle /Content?oid=7007) . The Stranger. http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Content?oid=7007. Retrieved 2006-11-24. 3. ^ All exhibition information from EMP Museum Web site [EMP Museum, Exhibitions. 2011. http://www.empmuseum.org/exhibitions/index.asp] 4. ^ The New York Times Review. SFM. http://travel.nytimes.com/travel/guides/north-america/united-states /washington/seattle/attraction-detail.html?vid=1154654608959 5. ^ http://www.empsfm.org/exhibitions/index.asp?articleID=1336 6. ^ http://empmuseum.org/exhibitions/index.asp?categoryID=203 7. ^ Benedetti, Winda (2000-06-22). "The Sky Church: A sanctuary for rock disciples" (http://www.seattlepi.com /emp/church.shtml) . Seattle PI. http://www.seattlepi.com/emp/church.shtml. Retrieved 2007-06-19. 8. ^ Roger Downey, Experience This! (http://www.seattleweekly.com/news/9807/features-downey.php) , Seattle Weekly, February 18, 1998. Accessed online 22 October 2006. 9. ^ a b Raban, Jonathan (April 4, 2004). "Deference to nature keeps Seattle from becoming world-class city (http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis.cgi/web/vortex/display?slug=raban04&date=20040404& query=Raban) "]. Seattle Times. http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis.cgi/web/vortex /display?slug=raban04&date=20040404&query=Raban. Retrieved 2006-11-24. 10. ^ a b Barnett, Erica C. (June 17, 2004 – June 23, 2004). "EMPty" (http://www.thestranger.com/seattle /Content?oid=18487) . The Stranger . http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Content?oid=18487. Retrieved 2006-11-24. 11. ^ Cheek, Lawrence W. (September 26, 2006). "On Architecture: Corrugated steel is a nice wrinkle" (http://www.seattlepi.com/ae/286390_architecture26.html) . Seattle Post-Intelligencer . http://www.seattlepi.com /ae/286390_architecture26.html. Retrieved 2006-11-26. 12. ^ Fodor's. "Experience Music Project Review". http://www.fodors.com/world/north-america/usa/washington/seattle /review-105822.html 13. ^ Enlow, Clair. Frank Gehry Rock Temple. Architecture Week. http://www.architectureweek.com/2000/0712


14. 15. 16. 17. 18.

19.


/index.html ^ Skelton, Lauren. "EMP: Experience Music Project." Seattle.Net. http://www.seattle.net/entertainment/seattlemusic /musicarticles/emp/ ^ John Cook, Recent layoffs at local companies: Experience Music Project (http://www.seattlepi.com/business /layoff.asp?id=398) , Seattle Post-Intelligencer , January 8, 2002. Accessed online 22 October 2006. ^ Associated Press story, Experience Music Project still struggling five years later (http://www.usatoday.com/travel /destinations/2005-03-22-emp-seattle_x.htm) , USA Today, March 22, 2005. Accessed online 22 October 2006. ^ Sheila Farr, Paul Allen's Experience Art Project (http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews /2002652590_allenart29.html) , Seattle Times, November 29, 2005. Accessed online 22 October 2006. ^ Full List of Works Announced for Upcoming DoubleTake: From Monet to Lichtenstein Exhibition (http://www.doubletakeexhibit.org/press/index.asp?dt=032106) , press release on the exhibit's official site, March 21, 2006. Accessed online 22 October 2006. ^ A Legacy of Sound and Vision: The EMP Oral History Program (http://www.empmuseum.org/exhibits /index.asp?categoryID=60) , EMP site. Accessed online 4 March 2007.

External links EMP Museum official website (http://www.empmuseum.org/) SeattleWiki: Experience Music Project (http://www.seattlewiki.org/wiki/Experience_Music_Project) Experience Music Project at greatbuildings.com (http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings /Experience_Music_Project.html) New Interfaces for Musical Expression – NIME-01 (http://hct.ece.ubc.ca/nime/2001/) Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org /w/index.php?title=Experience_Music_Project_and_Science_Fiction_Museum_and_Hall_of_Fame& oldid=446067978" Categories: Frank Gehry buildings Culture of Seattle, Washington American architecture Deconstructivism Seattle Center


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The Walt Disney Concert Hall at 111 South Grand Avenue in Downtown Los Angeles, California is the fourth hall of the Los Angeles Music Center. Bounded by Hope Street, Grand Avenue, 1st and 2nd Streets, it seats 2,265 people and serves (among other purposes) as the home of the Los Angeles Philharmonic orchestra and the Los Angeles Master Chorale. Lillian Disney made an initial gift in 1987 to build a performance venue as a gift to the people of Los Angeles and a tribute to Walt Disney's devotion to the arts and to the city. The Frank Gehry-designed building opened on October 24, 2003. Both the architecture by Frank Gehry and the acoustics of the concert hall (designed by Yasuhisa Toyota) were praised in contrast to its predecessor, the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion.[1]

Contents 1 Construction 2 Acoustics 3 Reflection problems 4 Concert organ 5 Pop culture 6 Restaurant 7 Gallery 8 See also 9 Notes 10 References 11 External links

Walt Disney Concert Hall

Location

111 South Grand Avenue Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Coordinates

34°3′19″N 118°15′0″W

Type

Concert hall

Built

1999–2003

Opened

October 23, 2003

Construction

$130 million (plus $110 million for

cost

parking garage)

Seating type

Reserved

Capacity

2,265

Website

Venue website (http://www.musiccenter.org/)

Construction

Disney Hall midway through construction, July 14, 2001.

The project was launched in 1992, when Lillian Disney, widow of Walt Disney, donated $50 million. Frank Gehry delivered completed designs in 1991. Construction of the underground parking garage began in 1992 and was completed in 1996. The garage cost had been $110 million, and was paid for by Los Angeles County, which sold bonds to provide the garage under the site of the planned hall.[2] Construction of the concert hall itself stalled from 1994 to 1996 due to lack of fundraising. Additional funds were required since the construction cost of the final project far exceeded the original budget. Plans were revised, and in a cost saving move the originally designed stone exterior was replaced



with a less costly metal skin. The needed fundraising restarted in earnest in 1996—after the real estate depression passed—headed up by Eli Broad and then-mayor Richard Riordan and groundbreaking for the hall was held in December 1999. Delay in the project completion caused many financial problems for the county of LA. The city expected to repay the garage debts by revenue coming from the Disney Hall parking users.[2] Upon completion in 2003, the project had cost an estimated $274 million, including the parking garage which had solely cost $110 million.[2] The remainder of the total cost was paid by private donations, of which the Disney family's contribution was estimated to $84.5 million with another $25 million from The Walt Disney Company. By comparison, the three existing halls of the Music Center cost $35 million in the 1960s (about $190 million in today's dollars).

Acoustics As construction finished in the spring of 2003, the Philharmonic postponed its grand opening until the fall and used the summer to let the orchestra and Master Chorale adjust to the new hall. Performers and critics agree that this extra time taken was well worth it by the time the hall opened to the public.[3] During the summer rehearsals a few hundred VIPs were invited to sit in including donors, board members and journalists. Writing about these rehearsals, L.A. Times music critic, Mark Swed wrote the following account: In a late stage of construction; the Dorothy Chandler Pavilio n is to the right in the rear.

“

When the orchestra finally got its next [practice] in Disney, it was to rehearse Ravel's lusciously orchestrated ballet, "Daphnis and Chloé" . . . This time, the hall miraculously came to life. Earlier, the orchestra's sound, wonderful as it was, had felt confined to stage. Now a new sonic dimension had been added, and every square inch of air in Disney vibrated merrily. Toyota says that he had never experienced such an acoustical difference between a first and second rehearsal in any of the halls he designed in his native Japan. Salonen could hardly believe his ears. To his amazement, he discovered that there were wrong notes in the printed parts of the Ravel that sit on the players' stands. The orchestra has owned these scores for decades, but in the Chandler no conductor had ever heard the inner details well enough to notice the errors.[3]

”

The hall met with lauded approval from nearly all of its listeners, including its performers. In an interview with PBS, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Music Director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, said, "The sound, of course, was my greatest concern, but now I am totally happy, and so is the orchestra,"[4] and later said, "Everyone can now hear what the L.A. Phil is supposed to sound like."[5] This remains one of the most successful grand openings of a concert hall in American history. The walls and ceiling of the hall are finished with Douglas-fir while the floor is finished with oak. The Hall's reverberation time is approximately 2.2 seconds unoccupied and 2.0 seconds occupied.[6]



Reflection problems After the construction, modifications were made to the Founders Room exterior; while most of the building's exterior was designed with stainless steel given a matte finish, the Founders Room and Children's Amphitheater were designed with highly polished mirror-like panels. The reflective qualities Walt Disney Concert Hall Sign of the surface were amplified by the concave sections of the Founders Room walls. Some residents of the neighboring condominiums suffered glare caused by sunlight that was reflected off these surfaces and concentrated in a manner similar to a parabolic mirror. The resulting heat made some rooms of nearby condominiums unbearably warm, caused the air-conditioning costs of these residents to skyrocket The exterior of Founders room after and created hot spots on adjacent sidewalks of as much as 60 °C (140 panels were re-surfaced. °F). After complaints from neighboring buildings and residents, the owners asked Gehry Partners to come up with a solution. Their response was a computer analysis of the building's surfaces identifying the offending panels. In 2005 these were dulled by lightly sanding the panels to eliminate unwanted glare.[7]

Concert organ The design of the hall included a large concert organ, completed in 2004, which was used in a special concert for the July 2004 National Convention of the American Guild of Organists. The organ had its public debut in a non-subscription recital performed by Frederick Swann on September 30, 2004, and its first public performance with the Philharmonic two days later in a concert featuring Todd Wilson. The organ's facade was designed by architect Frank Gehry in consultation with organ consultant and sound designer Manuel Rosales. Gehry wanted a distinctive, unique design for the organ. View of the stage and organ before a He would submit design concepts to Rosales, who would then concert. provide feedback. Many of Gehry's early designs were fanciful, but impractical: Rosales said in an interview with Timothy Mangan of The Orange County Register , "His [Gehry's] earliest input would have created very bizarre musical results in the organ. Just as a taste, some of them would have had the console at the top and pipes upside down. There was another in which the pipes were in layers of arrays like fans. Very fascinating. Couldn't be built. The pipes would have had to be made out of materials that wouldn't work for pipes. We had our moments where we realized we were not going anywhere. As the design became more practical for me, it also became more boring for him." Then, Gehry came up with the curved wooden pipe concept, "like a logjam kind of thing," says Rosales, "turned sideways." This design turned out to be musically viable.[8]



The organ was built by the German organ builder, Caspar Glatter-Götz, under the tonal direction and voicing of Manuel Rosales. It has an attached console built into the base of the instrument from which the pipes of the Positive, Great, and Swell manuals are playable by direct mechanical, or "tracker" key action, with the rest playing by electric key action; this console somewhat resembles North-German Baroque organs, and has a closed-circuit television monitor set into the music desk. It is also equipped with a detached, movable console, which can be moved about as easily as a grand piano, and plugged in at any of four positions on the stage, this console has terraced, curved "amphitheatre"-style stop-jambs resembling those of French Romantic organs, and is built with a low profile, with the music desk entirely above the top of the console, for the sake of clear sight lines to the conductor. From the detached console, all ranks play by electric key and stop action. In all, there are 72 stops, 109 ranks, and 6,125 pipes; pipes range in size from a few centimeters/inches to the longest being 9.75m (32 feet) (which has a freque ncy of 16 hertz).[9] The organ is a gift to the County of Los Angeles from Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc. (the U.S. sales, marketing, service, and distribution arm of Toyota Motor Corporation).[10][11]

Pop culture The Hall was spoofed in The Simpsons episode "The Seven-Beer Snitch"; Gehry voiced himself in the episode where the town of Springfield had him design a new Concert Hall for the town.[12] The Concert Hall was then transformed into a jail by Mr. Burns. The character Snake eventually escapes from the prison while saying, "No Frank Gehry-designed prison can hold me!" The first ever movie premiere at the concert hall was in 2003, when The Matrix Revolutions held its world premiere. The Hall is featured in the video game Midnight Club: Los Angeles. In the opening moments of "Day 6" of 24, a suicide bomber destroyed a bus in the vicinity of the Concert Hall. The Concert Hall held Ellen DeGeneres co-hosting for American Idol during the special week of Idol Gives Back . Rascal Flatts, Kelly Clarkson, and Il Divo performed here. This building was also used in the Iron Man (2008 release) movie briefly for a party for Stark Industries. The finale of the 2008 movie Get Smart was filmed at the Concert Hall. In the promotion picture for the television series Shark , the cast is standing in front of the Concert Hall. In the original pilot of the US TV remake of Life On Mars, the Hall features prominently in the sequence where Sam travels back to 1972. It is an emblem of the ultra-modern landscape that Sam is about to leave behind. On Everyday Italian, Giada De Laurentiis was preparing foods for her family and friends before she went there. "One Hour", a 3rd season episode of NUMB3RS , extensively features the concert hall. The action begins outside the hall, and after a long series of events around town, the FBI winds up going inside the hall in order to rescue a young boy from his captors. It is heavily used and an important building in the 2009 film, The Soloist . Filming was done on location at the Concert Hall for a fictional Boomkat music video in the CW's Melrose Place . The ABC show "Brothers and Sisters" often shows an exterior shot of Senator Robert McCallister's office that includes the concert hall. Also, Kitty proposed to Robert at a fund raiser held at the hall. It was featured in the 2007 film, Alvin and the Chipmunks.



Restaurant The concert hall houses celebrity chef Joachim Splichal's landmark fine dining restaurant Patina designed by Belzberg Architects. Patina serves French and California cuisine.[13]

Gallery

Profile view from Grand Avenue; the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion is to the right in the rear

Profile view from the northeast across Grand Avenue; the Bank of America Center is to the left in the rear

Detail near entrance

Viewed at night

Viewed looking north

Viewed at night

Main entrance at night

Viewed from satellite

Detail atop main entrance

The exterior in winter 2007

During construction in May 2001

During construction in May 2001

See also



List of concert halls The organization of the artist Guggenheim Bilbao Museum

Notes 1. ^ [1] (http://www.calendarlive.com/cl-et-fisher25oct25,0,1086012.htmlstory) 2. ^ a b c People, Parking, and Cities (http://www.uctc.net/access /25/Access%2025%20-%2002%20-%20People,%20Parking,%20and%20Cities.pdf/) 3. ^ a b Mark Swed (2003-10-29). "Now comes the true test" (http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/arts/cl-etswed29oct29,0,1082257.story) . Los Angeles Times . http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/arts/cl-etswed29oct29,0,1082257.story. Retrieved 2008-07-15. 4. ^ "The Los Angeles Philharmonic Inaugurates Walt Disney Concert Hall" (http://www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/dialogue /dialogue_disneyhall.html) . http://www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/dialogue/dialogue_disneyhall.html. Retrieved 2008-07-15. 5. ^ Valerie Scher (2003-10-25). "Disney Hall opens with a bang" (http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/features /20031025-9999_1c25gala.html) . The San Diego Union-Tribune . http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/features /20031025-9999_1c25gala.html. Retrieved 2008-07-16. 6. ^ "Building Details and Acoustics Data" (http://www.nagata.co.jp/e_sakuhin/factsheets/wdch.pdf) . Nagata Acoustics. http://www.nagata.co.jp/e_sakuhin/factsheets/wdch.pdf. Retrieved 2008-07-16. 7. ^ Coates, Chris (2005-03-21). "Dimming Disney Hall; Gehry's Glare Gets Buffed" (http://www.downtownnews.com /articles/2005/03/21/news/news02.txt) . Los Angeles Downtown News . http://www.downtownnews.com/articles /2005/03/21/news/news02.txt. 8. ^ Timothy Mangan (September 30, 2004). "Pipe dreams at Disney Hall; The concert venue's fantastical organ is finally ready for unveiling". The Orange County Register (California) . 9. ^ "Rosales Organ Builders, Opus 24 (Walt Disney Concert Hall)" (http://www.rosales.com/instruments /op24/index.htm) . http://www.rosales.com/instruments/op24/index.htm. Retrieved 2008-01-03. 10. ^ Wachtell, Esther (August 1991). "Using all the fund-raising tools: by giving its volunteers all the resources they needed to do the job, The Music Center of Los Angeles increased its campaign goal 15 percent to $ 17.6 million, despite the recession". Fund Raising Management 22 (6): 23. ISSN 0016-268X (http://www.worldcat.org /issn/0016-268X) . 11. ^ PAUL KARON (November 24, 1997). "Toyota ups hall donation". Daily Variety. 12. ^ simp15.jpg (http://blog.davidteoh.com/archives/simp15.jpg) 13. ^ http://www.gayot.com/best-restaurants/patinarestaurantlosangeles.html

References Symphony: Frank Gehry's Walt Disney Concert Hall . New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2003. ISBN 0810949814, ISBN 0810991225.

External links Official website at Los Angeles Music Center (http://www.musiccenter.org/about/venue_wdch.html) Walt Disney Concert Hall (http://wdch.laphil.com) - web page of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Archive of stories from the Los Angeles Times (http://www.calendarlive.com /cl-disneyhall,0,5782581.storygallery) Los Angeles Times graphic titled "Inside the Disney Hall Organ" (http://www.rosales.com/instruments /op24/insideDHorgan.pdf) Article and images at arcspace.com (http://www.arcspace.com/architects/gehry/disney2/) Microclimatic Impact: Glare around the Walt Disney Concert Hall (http://www.sbse.org/awards /docs/2005/1187.pdf)



Images in B&W of the Disney Concert Hall (http://www.pbase.com/nexxus/ode_to_gehry) Photographs of exterior and interior of the Disney Concert Hall (http://figure-ground.com/travel /image.php?disney_hall) Photograph: Exterior detail of the Disney Concert Hall (http://www.pbase.com/themarmot/image /51929342.jpg) Photographs of Disney Concert Hall exterior and architectural details (http://www.michaelmagic.com /pageGalDisney.html) Controlling Chaos (https://www.entrepreneur.com/tradejournals/article/97615998.html) Recent Photos of Disney Concert Hall (http://www.flickr.com/photos/sterlingdavisphoto /sets/72157612525423233/) Photos of Disney Concert Hall (http://www.flickr.com/photos/jmannion/sets/72157602482393836/) Virtual Tour of Walt Disney Concert Hall (http://www.laphil.com/visit/tours/) Theatre Consultant Theatre Projects website (http://www.theatreprojects.com/) Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Walt_Disney_Concert_Hall&oldid=454683660" Categories: Frank Gehry buildings Music venues in Los Angeles, California Culture of Los Angeles, California Concert halls in the United States

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Vitra Design Museum

Coordinates: 47°36′10″N 7°37′05″E

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Vitra Design Museum is an internationally renowned, privately owned museum for design in Weil am Rhein, Germany. Vitra CEO Rolf Fehlbaum founded the museum in 1989 as an independent private foundation. The Vitra corporation provides it with a financial subsidy, the use of Vitra architecture, and organisational cooperation. The Vitra Design Museum building by Frank O. Gehry, front view

Contents 1 Collection and activities 2 Museum building 3 External links 4 Notes

Collection and activities



The museum's collection, focusing on furniture and interior design, is centered around the bequest of U.S. designers Charles and Ray Eames, as well as numerous works of designers such as Geo rge Nelson, Alvar Aalto, Verner Panton, Dieter Rams, Jean Prouvé, Richard Hutten and Michael Thonet. It is one of the world's largest collections of modern furniture design, including pieces representative of all major periods and styles from the beginning of the nineteenth century onwards. These works, originally the private collection of Rolf Fehlbaum, are now not permanently on display, with the exc eption of a representative selection of designer chairs that can be seen in Zaha Hadid's fire station on the Vitra premises. Instead, the museum puts on temporary collections focused on one particular designer, often with loans from other collections. In turn, parts of the collection are lent to other institutions around the world.

Eero Saarinen's Tulip Chair , one of the pieces represented in the permanent collection.

In addition, the museum produces workshops, publications and museum products, as well as maintaining an archive, a restoration and conservation laboratory, and a research library. It also organises guided tours of the Vitra premises, a major attraction to those interested in modern architecture.

Museum building Cabriolet Bed , from an exposition of works by Joe Cesare Colombo.



The museum building, an architectural attraction in its own right, was Frank O. Gehry's first building in Europe, realised in cooperation with the Lörrach architect Günter Pfeifer. Together with the museum, which was originally just designed to house Rolf Fehlbaum's private collection, Gehry also built a more functionallooking production hall and a gatehouse for the close-by Vitra factory. Although Gehry used his trademark sculptural deconstructivist style for the museum building, he did not opt for his usual mix of materials, but limited himself to white plaster and a titanium-zinc alloy. For the first time, he allowed curved forms to break up his more usual angular shapes. The sloping white forms appear to echo the Notre Dame du Haut chapel by Le Corbusier in Ronchamp, France, not far from Weil.

East side view

Architecture critic Paul Heyer described the general impression on the visitor as “... a continuous changing swirl of white forms on the exterior, each seemingly without apparent relationship to the other, with its interiors a dynamically powerful interplay, in turn directly expressive of the exterior convolutions. As a totality it resolves itself into an entwined coherent

The museum building, street side view

display...” [1] The building backs the factory fence and is embedded in a meadow adorned with cherry trees. Claes Oldenburg's prominent sculpture Balancing Tools provides a colourful contrast, while Tadao Ando's nearby conference pavilion gives a more muted one.

Factory side view

External links Homepage of the Vitra Design Museum (http://www.design-museum.de) Vitra Design Museum on greatbuildings.com (http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings /Vitra_Design_Museum.html) Vitra Design Museum (http://www.guggenheim.org/exhibitions/past_exhibitions/gehry/vitra_08.html) on the Guggenheim Foundation website

Notes 1. ^ Paul Heyer. American Architecture: Ideas and Ideologies in the Late Twentieth Century. p. 233-234.

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Binoculars Building From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Binoculars Building , originally the Chiat/Day Building , is a commercial office building located in the Venice neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. Built between 1985-1991 for advertising agency Chiat/Day (now TBWA\Chiat\Day) as its West Coast c orporate headquarters, it was designed by Los Angeles architect Frank Gehry, his last project in Los Angeles until the Walt Disney Concert Hall

Binoculars Building

began construction in 1999.[1] The building is notable for the three different styles used in the main facade on Main Street, particularly the massive sculpture of binoculars that function as both a car and pedestrian entrance. The binoculars were designed by Claes

Binoculars Building Alternative names Chiat/Day Building

[2]

Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen . The entrance to the parking garage is between the lenses of the binoculars. The 75,000-square-foot (7,000 m2) building was delayed for a few years after hazardous materials were found on the building site, requiring removal. TBWA\Chiat\Day is no longer a tenant in the building, having moved to another area of Los Angeles known as Mar Vista, the current occupants are DDB Worldwide, another advertising agency, and Ketchum, a public relations agency. In January 2011, W. P. Carey & Co. announced Google was 2

leasing 100,000 square feet (9,300 m ) of space in the building and two neighboring buildings, part of a major expansion to establish a larger employment presence in Los

General information Type

Commercial office

Architectural

Postmodern

style Address

340 Main Street

Town or city

Venice, California

Country

United States

Coordinates

33.99525°N 118.477083°W

Current tenants

Google

Completed

1991

Angeles.[3][4][1]

Design and c onstruction Owner

W. P. Carey & Co.

Architect

Frank Gehry Website

Official website (http://www.thebinocularsbuilding.com/)



Panorama showing proportion of building

References 1. ^ a b Verini, James (11 September 2003). "L.A.: Gehry's laboratory" (http://articles.latimes.com/2003/sep/11/news /wk-cover11) . Los Angeles Times. http://articles.latimes.com/2003/sep/11/news/wk-cover11. Retrieved 14 May 2011. 2. ^ "Claes Oldenburg" (http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/collections/collection-online/show-full/bio /?artist_name=Claes%20Oldenburg&page=1&f=Name&cr=1) guggenheim.org, retrieved Dec 25, 2009 3. ^ Sarno, David (26 January 2011). "Google leases office complex in Venice" (http://articles.latimes.com/2011/jan /26/business/la-fi-google-venice-20110126) . Los Angeles Times. http://articles.latimes.com/2011/jan/26/business /la-fi-google-venice-20110126. Retrieved 14 May 2011. 4. ^ Carlson, Nicholas (8 February 2011). "Photos Of Google's Wacky New "Binoculars Building" Office On Venice Beach" (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2011/02/08/businessinsider-google-binoculars-building2011-2.DTL) . San Francisco Chronicle. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2011/02/08 /businessinsider-google-binoculars-building-2011-2.DTL. Retrieved 14 May 2011.

External links Guggenheim Museum profile (http://www.guggenheim.org/exhibitions/past_exhibitions/gehry /chiatday_07.html) ArcSpace: Chiat/Day Building 1991 (http://www.arcspace.com/calif/build/chiat.htm) On the Sunny Side of the Street (http://www.allbusiness.com/construction/4359562-1.html) Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Binoculars_Building&oldid=444598130" Categories: Frank Gehry buildings 1991 architecture Buildings and structures in Los Angeles, California Expressionist architecture

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Weisman Art Museum From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum is an art museum located on the University of Minnesota campus in Minneapolis. A teaching museum for the university since 1934, the museum is named for Frederick R. Weisman, and was designed by the renowned architect Frank Gehry. Often called a "modern art museum," the 20,000+ image collection has large collections of Marsden Hartley, Alfred Maurer, Charles Biederman, Native American Mimbres pottery, and Korean furniture.

Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum

Contents As viewed from the west, from the Washington

1 Building 1.1 Expansion 2 Frederick R. Weisman 3 References 4 External links

Avenue Bridge Established

1934

Location

East Bank, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

Type

Building The museum's current building, designed by renowned architect Frank Gehry,[1] was completed in 1993. The stainless steel skin was fabricated and installed by the A. Zahner Company, a frequent collaborator with Gehry's office.

Art museum

Collection size 20,000+ Director

Lyndel King

Public transit

Coffman Memorial Union, Metro

access

Transit/SouthWest Transit

Website

http://weisman.umn.edu

It is one of the major landmarks on campus, situated on a bluff overlooking the Mississippi River at the east end of the Washington Avenue Bridge. The building presents two faces, depending on which side it is viewed from. From the campus side, it presents a brick facade that blends with the existing brick and sandstone buildings. On the opposite side, the museum is a playground of curving and angular brushed steel sheets.[1] This side is an abstraction of a waterfall and a fish. The most stunning views of the building are from the pedestrian and highway decks of the adjacent Washington Avenue Bridge. Some locals critical of the radical architectural style frequently point out that the building's design could unexpectedly reflect the light of the sun into the eyes of motorists on the bridge. Studies commissioned by MNDOT have found that the museum is not hazardous to motorists.

Expansion



A new addition, also designed by Gehry, was expected to open in 2009.[2] However, due to economic conditions, construction did not begin until the spring of 2010. The Weisman closed its doors on Sunday, October 10, 2010 until the fall of 2011 as a part of this major expansion.[3] The museum finally reopened it's doors with a Grand Reopening celebration sponsored by Target on Sunday, October 2, 2011. The Weisman's five new galleries allow the museum to share more than three times as many objects from the permanent collection at any given time. One new gallery is filled with highlights from their noted ceramics collection (master potter Warren MacKenzie helped select the work); two house master works of American modernism; and another showcases the Weisman's considerable collection of photography, prints, and drawings. The fifth new gallery, the Target Studio for Creative Collaboration, houses experimental collaborations between artists and stude nts, faculty, and the community. As of the fall 2011 reopening the Target studio focuses on designs for a new plaza in front of the museum, the end of the pedestrian bridge, and a new university building across Washington Avenue. [3]

Frederick R. Weisman Frederick R. Weisman was a Minneapolis native who became well known as an art collector in Los Angeles who died in 1994. There is another Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art on the campus of Pepperdine University in Malibu, California. Additionally, there is the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, the Los Angeles estate designed to serve as a showcase for his personal collection of 20th-century art. When he opened the art collection at his Los Angeles estate to the public, he wanted to share the experience of living with art— rather than the usual, more formal protocol of seeing art in a gallery or museum. The Weisman Foundation estate, located in the Holmby Hills area of Los Angeles, is a two-story Mediterranean Revival house designed in the late 1920s by Los Angeles architect Gordon B. Kaufmann. The Weisman home exhibits the fine craftsmanship characteristic of the period, including custom decorative treatments on the walls and ceilings. Today the Foundation estate, annex, and surrounding gardens is made accessible to the public by appointment only on [4]

guided tours.

References 1. ^ a b "University of Minnesota Art Museum". Progressive Architecture 73 (1): 74–5. January 1992. 2. ^ Abbe, Mary (March 8, 2007). "A twist in the tinfoil - Gehry doing Weisman addition" (http://web.archive.org/web/20070311210552/http: //www.startribune.com/1375/story/1041820.html) . Star Tribune. Archived from the original (http://www.startribune.com/1375/story /1041820.html) on 2007-03-11. http://web.archive.org/web/20070311210552/http:

//www.startribune.com/1375/story/1041820.html. Retrieved 2007-03-18. 3. ^ a b "Goodbye for a Year, but not really" (http://blog.lib.umn.edu/wampr/wamnewsmain /2010/10/goodbye_for_a_year--but_not_re.html) . http://blog.lib.umn.edu/wampr/wamnewsmain /2010/10/goodbye_for_a_year--but_not_re.html. 4. ^ Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation Collection, 2007

External links official Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum website (http://www.weisman.umn.edu) Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation - Los Angeles (collection tours by appointment) (http://www.weismanfoundation.org) Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art - Malibu, California (http://arts.pepperdine.edu/museum /elements-of-nature.htm)



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The Weatherhead School of Management is a private business school of Case Western Reserve University located in Cleveland, Ohio. Weatherhead is considered a top-tier business school, with its strongest programs concentrated in organizational behavior, nonprofit business, information

systems, entrepreneurship, and executive education.[1] Weatherhead is the home to several award-winning academic journals[2] and publishes its own award-winning alumni outreach publication, The Weatherhead Collection. Weatherhead has also focused on the issues of sustainability and global development through the work of David Cooperrider at the Center for Business as an Agent of World Benefit. The hallmark facility of the Weatherhead School of Management is the Peter B. Lewis Building, named after the Cleveland philanthropist who donated $36.9 million towards its construction. Designed by Frank Gehry, the building has an area of approximately 150,000 square feet (14,000 m2) and stands at five stories tall.[3] The buildings decentralized design was chosen so that, “Faculty offices, classrooms and meeting areas are distributed on every floor to encourage informal interaction and complement the Weatherhead School’s learner-centered curricula.”

The entrance to the Peter B. Lewis Building

Contents 1 Weatherhead firsts 2 Academic programs 2.1 Undergraduate 2.2 MBA 2.3 Masters 2.3.1 Master of Accountancy (MAcc) 2.3.2 Master of Management & Engineering (MEM) 2.3.3 Master of Nonprofit Organizations (MNO) 2.3.4 Master of Science in Finance 2.3.5 Master of Science in Management 2.3.6 Master of Science in Management - Operations Research (MSM-OR) 2.3.7 Master of Science in Management – Supply Chain (MSM-SC) 2.3.8 MS in Positive Organizational Development and Change - MPOD 2.4 PhD 2.4.1 Executive Doctor of Management (EDM) 2.5 Executive education



3 Sustainable Enterprise - Prominent Faculty 4 Manage By Designing - Prominent Faculty 5 Organizational Behavior - Prominent Faculty 6 Notable alumni 7 See also 8 References 9 External links

Weatherhead firsts First Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior & Operations Research First networked computer lab in the U.S. First competency-based MBA program in U.S. for Emotional Intelligence First Executive Doctor of Management (EDM) program in the nation First to explore Manage by Designing First business school to introduce leadership assessment in its MBA curriculum First Health Systems Management Center in collaboration with a medical school First to create Appreciative Inquiry Founder of the Center for Business as an Agent of World Benefit

Academic programs Undergraduate Weatherhead offers traditional four-year majors in the following areas: BS in Accounting BS in Management BA in Economics For students pursuing the BS in accounting, integrated study options enable attainment of a Master's of Accountancy degree in five years or less, satisfying the 150-hour requirement to sit for the CPA examination in most states.[4] All students in the undergraduate program are able to pursue minors in: Accounting Economics Entrepreneurship Finance Information Systems Marketing Students pursuing a degree in engineering can partake in a specialized sequence offered by Weatherhead. Engineering students can pursue a minor in economics or management, and sequences in economics and management/entrepreneurship. The Weatherhead School of Management Undergraduate Program [1] (http://weatherhead.case.edu /undergraduate/) was ranked 34th among U.S. undergraduate business programs by U.S. News & World Report in 2010 and was ranked 38th by BusinessWeek in 2010.[5]



2010 Bloomberg Businessweek's Specialty Ranking Results:

Financial Management: #1 Microeconomics: #6 Macroeconomics: #10 Calculus: #11 Accounting: #15 Sustainability: #17 Quantitative Methods: #22

MBA Full-time/Traditional: A traditional 2-year program with a variety of electives and experiential learning opportunities. Full-time/Accelerated: An 11-month program for undergraduate business majors. Part-time/Saturday: A 21-month program that combines face-to-face learning with technologymediated classrooms. Part-time/Evening: Designed to meet the time constraints of employed students.

A view of the roof o f the Peter B. Lewis Building

from the F ord Parking Garage The Leadership Assessment and Development (LEAD) course, is billed as one of the foundations of the Weatherhead MBA. This class encourages students to take an active role in developing the shape and direction of their MBA. Students are asked to analyze their career goals and lay out a strategy to accomplish their professional and personal objectives. Action Learning takes place in the second year of the full-time program. Classmates form consulting teams to assist major corporations in solving a timely management problem.

In late 2008, Weatherhead consolidated many of its programs under two separate but interdisciplinary core initiatives. Manage by Designing (http://design.case.edu) and Sustainable Enterprise (http://weatherhead.case.edu/initiatives/sustainable-enterprise/) . By stressing the school's commitment to these emerging management trends, the MBA program is designed to build a core competency in the following areas: Leadership Assessment and Development, Financial Reporting and Control, Financial Management, Economics, Statistics and Decision-Modeling, Human Values in Organizations, Marketing, Operations Management, Information Design and Management, Strategic Issues and Applications, Action Learn ing. Students in the MBA program are also able to pursue concentrations in: Banking and Finance, Health Systems Management, Marketing, Nonprofit Management, Operations and Supply Chain Management, Organizational Development, and Strategic Management.[6] Weatherhead’s joint degree programs offer a complementary education strategy to enable connections between the MBA program and a specific industry career concentration. Programs available include: MBA/JD (Juris Doctorate) MBA/MAcc (Master in Accounting) MBA/MD (Medical Doctorate) MBA/MIM (Master in International Management) MBA/MSN (Master of Science in Nursing) MBA/MPH (Master of Public Health) MBA/MSM - Operations Research



MBA/MSM - Supply Chain Management

Rankings and Distinctions

#3 Organizational Behavior Department (Financial Times, 2008 – Global) #5 Finance (The Best US MBA Programs By Specialty 2010, Businessweek) #8 General Management (The Best US MBA Programs By Specialty 2010, Businessweek) #27 Return on Investment for Full-Time MBA (Businessweek, 2010 – US); # 41 for Global Top 30 Design Thinking in Management School (Businessweek, 2009 – Global) #48 Full-Time MBA (Financial Times, 2010 – U.S.) #33 Full-Time MBA (Aspen Institute's Beyond Grey Pinstripes, 2009 – Global) #49 Full-Time MBA (Forbes, 2011 - US) #51 Full-Time MBA (Businessweek, 2010 – U.S.) #52 Full-Time MBA (EIU, 2010 – North America) #56 Full-Time MBA Program (CNN Expansion, 2010 - Global) #14 Part-Time MBA Program (Businessweek, 2009 – U.S.) #31 Part-Time MBA (U.S. News & World Report, 2010 – U.S.) #21 Executive MBA Program (Businessweek, 2009 – Global) The Financial Times ranked the full-time Master of Business Administration program. Year Global Rank US rank

2010 80

48

2009 95

53

2008 100

57

2007 82

49

2006 63

40

2005 49

30

[7]

Masters Master of Accountancy (MAcc)



The Weatherhead MAcc Program features a 36-credit hour curriculum. The MAcc program may be undertaken on a full-time or part-time basis, beginning in any semester. Enrollment in the summer (June) or fall (August) is recommended by Weatherhead in order to facilitate appropriate sequencing of courses.[8] The degree requirements of the Master of Accountancy (MAcc) Program at the Weatherhead School of Management satisfy the educational qualifications for an individual to sit for the CPA examination in the state of Ohio. The MAcc also provides the opportunity to be admitted into a joint MAcc/MBA program. Generally, the joint degree can be completed in two additional semesters, reducing the completion time of the added degree by about two semesters. Weatherhead recommended that a student complete the first semester of the MAcc before applying to the joint degree program. Master of Management & Engineering (MEM)

The Weaterhead MEM Program is a 42 credit hour program that only takes three semesters to complete. According to the school, Case Western Reserve University is the only university to offer a fully integrated academic program such as this.[9] Courses are taught by the Case School of Engineering and Weatherhead School of Management. Master of Nonprofit Organizations (MNO)

The Master of Nonprofit Organizations degree consists of 60 credit hours of academic work taken over two years of full-time study, or approximately 48 months of part-time study. Part-time students may accelerate their progress depending upon the number of courses they take in any given semester. The MNO is based on a multidisciplinary curriculum consisting of four thematic areas: Nonprofit Purposes, Traditions, and Contexts; Analytic Thinking for Nonprofit Leaders; Generating and Managing Resources for Nonprofit Organizations; and Leading Nonprofit Organizations. Students take 33 hours of required courses, and 27 hours of elective courses.[10] Master of Science in Finance

The Master of Science in Finance degree consists of a curriculum of 36 credit hours of work, including 12 credit hours each of foundation classes, core classes and electives. The program can be completed in 9 to 12 months, the program is designed to prepare students to take professional designation exams, such as the Chartered Financial Analysts, Certified Financial Planners, or the Financial Risk Management.[11] Master of Science in Management

The Weatherhead MSM program is a two-semester degree program is designed specifically for recent bachelor of arts or bachelor of science graduates with no prior business coursework.[12] After completing the program in which the entry-level business and management skills are taught, students may return to Weatherhead to complete their MBA. Master of Science in Management - Operations Research (MSM-OR)

The MSM-OR program consists of 18 credit hours of operations research core material, 12 credit hours of speciality tracks, and 6 credit hours of business core classes. The program is designed to pair the disciplines of operations research and business.[13] Master of Science in Management – Supply Chain (MSM-SC)



The MSM-SC program consists of 12 credit hours of business core classes and 24 credit hours of supply chain courses. The MSM-SC can be completed by full-time students in 12 to 16 months and by part-time students in 24 to 36 months. MS in Positive Organizational Development and Change - MPOD

The Weatherhead MPOD degree is designed to enable professionals to "create a better world by developing human potential with strength-based methods of inquiry, design, and change management."[14] The MPOD is a 40-credit, 19-month program delivered in five, week-long residencies and one 10-day international study tour. The program's objectives are to build students' abilities in strategic-level change management and deepen their knowledge of leading-edge theory and practice in appreciative inquiry, strength-based human resource development, and positive organizational change research.

PhD The Weatherhead School of Management offers P hD degrees in disciplines such as information systems and organizational behavior. In 2010, the Financial Times ranked the school's doctoral programs 13th in the world.[15] Executive Doctor of Management (EDM)

The Weatherhead Executive Doctor of Management (EDM) Program integrates concept and practice within the context of today's emerging and pressing global issues. The EDM is available to a small, select group of experienced executives who possess graduate degrees. The curriculum comprises 54 credit hours organized into interdependent areas of study.[16] EDM is an executive-type program with classes offered at one 4-day and five 2-day residencies each semester. The curriculum incorporates two types of courses: Integrative and Inquiry. The Integrative courses address substantive problems through reading relevant literature and course discussion. They seek to integrate ideas across the social sciences and to some degree the humanities to understand the focal problem or issue. The Inquiry courses are dedicated to helping students formulate the questions they want to examine in their individual research. These courses are designed to give students the methodological tools to conduct research in their areas of interest and provide faculty support in the design and execution of research projects. Faculty at the Weatherhead school advise doctoral students in accounting, management, operations research, and organizational behavior. (Technically, degrees are conferred by the School of Graduate Studies at Case Western Reserve University.)



Executive education The Weatherhead School has offered executive education for over 30 years.[17] The Weatherhead Executive Education program offers expertise in the areas of leadership development through emotional intelligence, organizational development through appreciate inquiry, health care management, entrepreneurship, innovation, women’s leadership and social impact management.

Sustainable Enterprise - Prominent Faculty

A closeup of the tiles.

Prominent faculty include David Cooperrider and David A. Kolb. "Institute in Sustainable Value and Social Entrepreneurship" was rated by Forbes as one of the 10 Most Innovative Business School Courses in 2010.

Manage By Designing - Prominent Faculty Prominent faculty include Fred Collopy, Dick Boland and Richard Buchanan. Boland and Collopy are widely published leaders in the emerging 'design thinking' trend. In addition to numerous articles, Collopy and Boland authored the book "Managing as Designing" about the experience of working with Frank Gehry and how this experience helped shape the design thinking trend. With the help of Richard Buchanan, The Weatherehad School of Management's lead role in the trend was recognized by BusinessWeek in September, 2009 as one of the top 30 Design Thinking programs in the world[18] . Their 'Manage By Designing' initiative helped launch the Weatherhead Collection and the rest of the school's much-praised rebranding effort[19] that is notable for having pioneered the use of high-design aesthetics instead of the traditionally conservative approach historically taken by business schools.

Organizational Behavior - Prominent Faculty Professor Richard E. Boyatzis is an internationally renowned expert on organizational behavior. He is widely known for his creation of the competency approach, for Competency and Emotional Intelligence. His landmark research paved the way for the use of behavioral competencies by employers in the United States, the United Kingdom, and several other countries. Weatherhead's Organizational Behavior Department was ranked 1st (5 years in a row) during 2003-2007 and 3rd in 2008 in the world by Financial Times. The Department played a major role in defining the discipline by creating the field's first doctoral program in 1964. Today, Weatherhead continues to maintain the nation's largest PhD program in Organizational Behavior with alumni and students from around the world.

Notable alumni Edward C. Prescott, 2004 Nobel Laureate in Economics, received his MS in operations research in 1964.



Victor Ciorbea, former Prime Minister of Romania, specialized in management in 1992. Subir Vithal Gokarn, Deputy Governor of Reserve Bank of India, received his Ph.D. in Economics in 1989. Milton A. Wolf, former U.S. ambassador to Austria, earned his Ph.D. in Economics in 1993. Donald E. Washkewicz, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Parker Hannifin Corporation, received an MBA in 1979. He is one of 25 Highest Paid CEOs with MBAs (Businessweek 2010). David Daberko, former National City Corp. Chairman and CEO, received an MBA in 1970. Robert W. Gillespie, Jr., former Chairman & CEO of Key Corp, received an MBA in 1968. John C. Dannemiller, former Chairman, CEO & President of Applied Industrial Technologies, received an MBA in 1964. William G. Bares, former Chairman of Lubrizol Corporation, received an MBA in 1969. Michael McCaskey, Chairman of the Board of the Chicago Bears, holds a Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior in 1971. John B. Neff, former Managing Partner of Wellington Management Corporation, received an MBA in 1958. Clayton Deutsch, CEO and president, Boston Private Financial Holdings, received an MBA. Chuck Fowler, president, Fairmount Minerals, received an Executive MBA and donated US$7.5 million to set up a Center at the School.

See also Case Western Reserve University Weatherhead Collection List of United States business school rankings List of business schools in the United States

References 1. ^ Rankings in Higher Education : Weatherhead School of Management :: Case Western Reserve University (http://weatherhead.case.edu/about/rankings.cfm) 2. ^ The Weatherhead Collection, Page 08 (http://weatherhead.case.edu/about/media/publications /the_collection_bold_pages_highres.pdf) 3. ^ Weatherhead School of Management :: Case Western Reserve University (http://weatherhead.case.edu/lewis /factoids.cfm) 4. ^ Majors Overview : Weatherhead School of Management :: Case Western Reserve University (http://weatherhead.case.edu/undergraduate/majorOverview.cfm) 5. ^ Minors and Sequences : Weatherhead School of Management :: Case Western Reserve University (http://weatherhead.case.edu/undergraduate/minorsSequence.cfm) 6. ^ Concentrations : Weatherhead School of Management :: Case Western Reserve University (http://weatherhead.case.edu/mba/concentrations/conc_default.cfm) 7. ^ Crain's Cleveland Business: Weatherhead slips in rankings (http://www.crainscleveland.com/apps/pbcs.dll /article?AID=/20070205/FREE/70205007/1008&Profile=1008) 8. ^ Master of Accountancy : Weatherhead School of Management :: Case Western Reserve University


9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19.


(http://weatherhead.case.edu/acct/mAcc/) ^ Masters of Engineering Management Degree (http://www.mem.case.edu/index.html) ^ Mandel Center: Master of Nonprofit Organizations (MNO) STRUCTURE (http://www.case.edu/mandelcenter /grad/mno/) ^ MS Finance : Weatherhead School of Management :: Case Western Reserve University (http://weatherhead.case.edu/finance/) ^ http://weatherhead.case.edu/msm/msm.cfm ^ MSM-OR : Weatherhead School of Management :: Case Western Reserve University (http://weatherhead.case.edu /msm/msm-or.cfm) ^ Program Overview : Weatherhead School of Management :: Case Western Reserve University (http://weatherhead.case.edu/mpod/overview.cfm) ^ FT Global MBA Rankings (http://rankings.ft.com/businessschoolrankings/global-mba-rankings) ^ PROGRAM CONTENT : Weatherhead School of Management :: Case Western Reserve University (http://weatherhead.case.edu/edm/curr_structure.cfm) ^ Weatherhead School of Management :: Case Western Reserve University (http://weatherhead.case.edu/exed.cfm) ^ BusinessWeek's Top 60 Design Thinking Schools in the World (http://images.businessweek.com/ss/09 /09/0930_worlds_best_design_schools/index.htm) ^ Reddy for Action - Weatherhead Stays on Course (http://www.crainscleveland.com/article/20090921 /FREE/309219956)

External links Weatherhead School of Management (http://weatherhead.case.edu/) Images of the Peter B. Lewis Building (http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/ohio/cleveland/gehry /lewis.html) Images of the interior of the building (http://www.galinsky.com/buildings/peterblewis/index.htm) Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Weatherhead_School_of_Management& oldid=454870592" Categories: Business schools in Ohio Case Western Reserve University Frank Gehry buildings University shootings in the United States

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The BP Pedestrian Bridge , or simply BP Bridge, is a girder footbridge in the Loop community area of Chicago, Illinois, United States. It spans Columbus Drive to connect Daley Bicentennial Plaza with Millennium Park, both parts of the larger Grant Park. Designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Frank Gehry, it opened along with the rest of Millennium Park on July 16, 2004.[1] Gehry had been courted by the city to design the bridge and the neighboring Jay Pritzker Pavilion, and eventually agreed to do so after the Pritzker family funded the Pavilion.[2][3][4] Named for energy firm BP, which donated $5 million toward its construction, it is the first Gehry-designed bridge to have been completed.[5] BP Bridge is described as snakelike because of its curving form.[6] Designed to bear a heavy load without structural problems caused by its own weight, it has won awards for its use of sheet metal. The bridge is known for its aesthetics, and Gehry's style is seen in its biomorphic allusions and extensive sculptural use of stainless steel plates to express abstraction. The pedestrian bridge serves as a noise barrier for traffic sounds from Columbus Drive. It is a connecting link between Millennium Park and destinations to the east, such as the nearby lakefront, other parts of Grant Park and a parking garage.[7] BP Bridge uses a concealed box girder design with a concrete base, and its deck is covered by hardwood floor boards.[8] It is designed without handrails, using stainless steel parapets instead. The total length is 935 feet (285 m), with a five percent slope on its inclined surfaces that makes it barrier free and accessible. Although the bridge is closed in winter because ice cannot be safely removed from its wooden walkway, it has received favorable reviews for its design and aesthetics.

Contents 1 Design 1.1 Preliminary plans 1.2 Final plan 2 Construction 3 Use and controversies 4 Aesthetics

BP Pedestrian Bridge

The BP Bridge viewed from The Buckingham in Lakeshore East (June 12, 2008) Carries

Pedestrians

Crosses

Columbus Drive

Locale

Chicago, Illinois (Cook County) United States

Designer

Frank Gehry

Design

girder bridge

Material

stainless steel, reinforced concrete, and hardwood

Total length

935 feet (285.0 m)

Width

20 feet (6.1 m)

Clearance

14 feet 6 inches (4.4 m)

below Construction

May 22, 2004

end Opened

July 16, 2004



5 Credits 6 Notes 7 References 8 External links

Design Preliminary plans Since the mid-19th century, Grant Park has been Chicago's "front yard", with Lake Michigan to the east and the Loop to the west. Columbus Drive runs north–south through Grant Park, with Daley Bicentennial Plaza in the northeast corner of the park. West of Columbus Drive, the northwest corner of the park had been Illinois Central rail yards and parking lots until 1997, when it became available for development by the city as Millennium Park. Millennium Park is also north of Monroe Street and the Art Institute, east of Michigan Avenue, and south of Randolph Street.[9] For 2007, Millennium Park trailed only Navy Pier as a Chicago tourist attraction.[10]

Gehry designed both the bridge and Jay Pritzker Pavilion with curving stainless steel plates.

In February 1999, the city announced it was negotiating with Frank Gehry to design a proscenium arch and orchestra enclosure for a band shell in the new park, as well as a pedestrian bridge crossing Columbus Drive between Millennium Park and Daley Bicentennial Plaza. The city also sought donors to cover the cost of Gehry's work, which would eventually become Jay Pritzker Pavilion and the BP Pedestrian Bridge.[11][12] At the time, the Chicago Tribune dubbed Gehry "the hottest architect in the universe" in reference to the acclaim for his Guggenheim Museum Bilbao.[13] Millennium Park project manager Edward Uhlir said "Frank is just the cutting edge of the next century of architecture", and noted that no other architect was being sought.[11] Gehry was approached several times by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill architect Adrian Smith on behalf of the city.[3] In April 1999, the city announced that the Pritzker family had donated $15 million to fund Gehry's band shell and an additional nine donors committed a total of $10 million more to the park.[2][14] That same day, Gehry agreed to the design request.[4]

In November 1999, when he unveiled his initial plans for the bridge and band shell, Gehry admitted the bridge's design was underdeveloped because funding for it was not yet committed. Even at this early point, the need for a sound barrier for Columbus Drive traffic noise was recognized, although Gehry indicated this might take the form of a berm, or raised barrier.[15] The need to fund a bridge to span the eight-lane Columbus Drive was evident, but some planning for the park was delayed in anticipation of details on the redesign of Soldier Field.[16] In January 2000, the city announced plans to expand the park to include features that became Cloud Gate, Crown Fountain, the McDonalds Cycle Center, and the BP Pedestrian Bridge.[17] Later that month, Gehry unveiled his next design, which depicted a winding bridge.[18] While the neighboring Jay Pritzker Pavilion changed relatively little from Gehry's 1999 design when built, the bridge went through several proposed designs.[19] The proposal made in early 2000, which was expected to be executed in 2002, included a bridge that was a mere 170 feet (51.8 m) long and 20 feet (6.1 m) wide.[20] That design was not approved, and Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley's disapproval of Gehry's subsequent design of an 800–900-foot (240–270 m) bridge caused Gehry to come up with ten more designs.[21] The first of these



plans was for a Z-shaped bridge that would have run northwest–southeast with western ramps in Millennium Park, leading south, and eastern ramps in the empty north section of Daley Bicentennial Plaza, leading north. It would have required elevators to conform to the Americans with Disabilities Act.[19] This plan was abandoned because it would have segregated the handicapped.[22] Gehry had only designed two bridges previously, both in the mid-1990s (Pferdeturm USTRA Bridge in Hanover, Germany and Financial Times Millennium Bridge in London, United Kingdom) but neither was built.[19]

Final plan The final design for the bridge was revealed in an exhibit at the Chicago Cultural Center on June 10, 2000.[21] As designed and built, the bridge is 935 feet (285.0 m) long and 20 feet (6.1 m) wide, with a 14-foot-6-inch (4.42 m) Columbus Drive clearance.[23][24] The clearance was designed to slightly exceed the 14-foot (4.3 m) standard set by the United States Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration for urban area interstate bridge clearances, and to allow for additional future layers of pavement below.[25] This height is also greater than the maximum vehicle height of 13 feet 6 inches (4.1 m) set by the Illinois Vehicle Code.[26] According to the Chicago Tribune the width of the "trenchlike" area spanned is approximately 150 feet (46 m),[21] while The New York Times reports the bridge is over ten times longer than Columbus Drive is wide.[27]

The bridge is a noise barrier along the eastern edge of Millennium Park, with the Historic Michigan Boulevard District in the background.

BP Bridge begins in Millennium Park between the trellis system over the Jay Pritzker Pavilion's great lawn and the Lurie Garden; the design was changed so that the west ramp coincided with the boardwalk of the Lurie Garden seam.[28][29] The bridge winds its way northward along the eastern edge of Millennium Park before crossing Columbus Drive in a C-shaped curve, above underground parking garage entrances. In Daley Bicentennial Plaza the bridge has an S-shape, then turns east. BP Bridge is designed so that its inclined surfaces have a continuous five percent slope rather than landings and switchback ramps, which provides easy access for the physically challenged.[21][30] The gently sloped ramp eliminates the need for lifts or any of the other common types of ramps (L-shaped, switchback, U-shaped, straight),[31] and helped the park earn the 2005 Barrier-Free America Award for its exe mplary barrier-free design.[32] Gehry had hoped to design the bridge so that it could be constructed without a support column in the center of Columbus Drive. However, Chicago Tribune architecture critic Blair Kamin notes that if he had done so, the bridge might not have been as sleek.[6] Building the bridge without the column would have required load-bearing cantilevers (beams supported only on one side) from structural positions on opposite sides o Crossing Columbus Drive, the bridge the street; this would have been expensive and labor-intensive, because is supported by a central concrete it would have required excavating large portions of the parking garages column. (from Randolph Street) on both sides of the street. Moreover, on the Daley Bicentennial Plaza side, the optimal location for the supporting cantilever would have been at the location of the Monroe Street Garage. Thus, the preferred bridge design was altered to avoid problems related to the underground parking garages.[33] The bridge is both a connector and a viewing platform for the park.[6] It was designed to link the Historic



Michigan Boulevard District and the entire Loop to the west with the Lake Michigan lakefront to the east. It was also designed to be a berm noise barrier blocking noise on the eight-lane Columbus Drive from the Park's outdoor band shell (Jay Pritzker Pavilion), by deflecting traffic sounds upward.[34] The bridge, which uses steel girders, reinforced concrete abutments and deck slabs, hardwood deck, and a stainless steel veneer, cost between $12.1 and $14.5 million.[34][35][36] It contains large sculptural plates of curvilinear stainless steel instead of more standard flat plates.[1] The bridge's curvilinear design gives it a flowing, natural look, instead of the linear, rigid form of standard bridges. Although its steel girders rest on concrete pylons and most of the bridge is solid concrete, the bridge uses a hollow box girder design to minimize weight, as the ground that supports the bridge covers underground parking garages.[8][37] The concrete base and box girder are flanked by a hollow stainless steel skeleton.[8] Despite its hollow structure, and the fact that it is designed as a concealed beam bridge, the footbridge is built to highway standards and can support a full capacity load of pedestrians.[37] The bridge is designed without standard handrails and uses waist-high parapets as guard rails instead.[6]

Construction The bridge was built using 22-gauge stainless steel type 316 plates (0.031 inches / 0.79 millimetres thick), with an angel hair finish and a flat interlocking panel process. Stainless steel type 316 is known for its excellent welding characteristics, as well as for its resistance to pitting.[38] According to the Chicago Tribune, the bridge materials used in construction include 2,000 rot-resistant Brazilian hardwood boards for the deck, 115,000 stainless steel screws and 9,800 stainless steel shingle plates.[28][37] According to Architecture Metal Expertise, the bridge has "10,400 stainless steel trapezoidal panels in 17 different shop fabricated configurations [which] involved 1,000 shop hours".[34] The sheet metal work totaled 5,900 field hours over a six-month period.[34] During construction, about 200 shingles were installed per day.[39] The bridge includes two types of structural steel: steel that is 2.0 inches / 5.1 centimetres thick and 20.0 inches / 51 centimetres in diameter for the approaches and box girders for the span.[40] [41]

BP Bridge entry and redesigned landscape in Daley Bicentennial Plaza

CATIA software was used to handle the complex geometric layout. To ensure accurate fitting and alignment to the sloping, curving sides of the bridge, 4,400 custom-made convex, concave and radiused cladding panels were fabricated on site by sheet metal contractor Custom Metal Fabricators (CMF). CMF used 57,000 square feet (5,300 m2) of stainless steel sheet to cover the sides, which have a combined perimeter length of 1,728 feet (526.7 m). CMF built special heated enclosures so that work could continue on site through the winter. They designed, fabricated and installed custom type 4 brushed stainless steel parapets serving in the place of handrails on the bridge. CMF earned the 2005 Tom Guilfoy Memorial Architectural Sheet Metal Award, by the California chapter of the Sheet Metal and Air Conditioning Contractors' National Association for the project.[34] In 2005 it received a Merit Award from the National Steel Bridge Alliance, and an Excellence in Structural Engineering award from the Structural Engineers Association of Illinois.[42] On the day that the two halves of the bridge were joined, each side of Columbus Drive was closed for a 12-hour period and a 360-short-ton (320-long-ton; 330 t) crane was used to install the girders. Before bringing the crane



to the location, screw jacks were used to shore up the underground garage roof to hold the crane's weight.[43] The landscaping surrounding the bridge was redesigned by landscape architect Terry Guen. Honey locusts, ash and maple trees were removed and replaced with three varieties of magnolia and more than two dozen ornamental and canopy trees along the eastern foot of the bridge in Daley Bicentennial Plaza. Other preliminary construction work included setting reinforcing rods for the bridge in the concrete roof deck of the parking garage located under the park.[23]

Use and controversies Before its official opening, the bridge had a May 22, 2004, private ribbon-cutting ceremony attended by Gehry and Mayor Daley. During the weekend of the ribbon-cutting, Gehry was awarded an honorary degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.[44] The BP Pedestrian Bridge officially opened, along with the rest of Millennium Park, on July 16, 2004.[1][37] It remained unnamed at the ribbon-cutting,[37] but before the July park opening, energy firm BP had paid $5 million for the bridge sponsorship and naming rights.[45]

The deck is covered with 2,000 Brazilian hardwood floor boards.

Timothy Gilfoyle, author of Millennium Park: Creating a Chicago Landmark , notes that a controversy surrounds the "tasteless" corporate naming of several of the Park's features, including the bridge, which was named after an oil company.[46] It is well documented that naming rights were sold for high fees,[47] and Gilfoyle was not the only one who chastised park officials for selling naming rights to the highest bidder. Public interest groups have crusaded against commercialization of Chicago parks.[48] However, many of the donors have a long history of local philanthropy and the funds were essential to providing necessary financing for several features of the park.[45]

After the park opened, some of the bridge's foibles became apparent. The bridge has had to be closed during the winter because freezing conditions make it unsafe.[49] Since the bridge is over an expressway-like trench of Columbus Drive, shoveling the snow onto passing cars is not an option and the Brazilian hardwood would be damaged by rock salt.[50] The city not only mandates that the bridge be swept and washed daily, but also that the parapets be wiped free of fingerprints.[51] The bridge has also had controversial closures in the summer, which were related to larger park concerns. On September 8, 2005, Toyota Motor Sales USA paid $800,000 to rent the bridge and all but four venues in the park from 6 a.m. to 11 p.m.[52][53] On August 7, 2006, Allstate paid $700,000 to rent the bridge and most of the park for a day.[54][55] The exclusion of commuters who normally walk through the park and tourists lured by its attractions was controversial, though the city said the money raised paid for free public programs in Millennium Park.[52]

Aesthetics



The bridge is noted for its sculptural characte ristics and Kamin describes it as a delightful pleasure that was designed to emphasize its artistic elements while de-emphasizing its concrete and steel support system.[6] The New York Times notes that the artist Anish Kapoor's attempts to hide the seams of Cloud Gate were an interesting contrast to Gehry's architectural efforts.

Perspectives of BP Bridge

Gehry took pride in making the BP Pedestrian Bridge flaunt its seams.[27] Beginning with Gehry's earliest bridge designs, the bridge was expected to complement the neighboring Pritzker Pavilion.[20] Some have suggested that the bridge and the pavilion are mere extensions of Gehry's work in other cities. For example, according to Gilfoyle, both structures embody Gehry's established asymmetrical style, evoking fluid, continuous motion and sculptural abstraction. They also feature metallic facades and aesthetic curves, but they are said to be more refined, reduced and dynamic than much of his other work.[57] Since the 1960s, Gehry has made artistic use of scaled animals such as fish and snakes, which first appeared in his architectural designs in the 1980s. [58][59][60] Many references to the bridge describe it as snakelike for its winding path,[6][34][44] and some even refer to the stainless steel plates as scales with discussion of reptilian forms.[19][41] Kamin calls it "a bridge that resembles a giant silver snake, complete with a scaly skin",[6] while Gehry said he thought the bridge looked like a river, but added he might be the only one who thought that.[44]

View from Aon Center (top, in 2005), Sears Tower (center, in

The way the bridge flows in a continuum of unexpected directions is a 2007),[56] and Blue Cross Blue break from Gehry's other work and other more traditional urban and Shield Tower (bottom, in 2008). architectural forms nearby.[57] Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture critic Kamin gave the bridge four stars (out of a possible four) in his review and admires how "computers have given Gehry unparalleled formal freedom" to design "the complexity of its geometry" and multidimensional curvatures.[6] The bridge provides views of both the Historic Michigan Boulevard District and Lake Michigan in a way that Kamin says makes it a belvedere.[6][61] Kamin also recommends anyone having a bad day to stroll across the bridge, adding, "You won't get where you're going quickly, but you'll feel a whole lot better once you're done."[6]



Image map of Millennium Park. Each feature or label is wikilinked.

Credits Commissioned by – The City of Chicago[11] Architect – Gehry Partners, LLP[62] Project manager – US Equities[62] Construction manager – URS Construction Services[62] Structural engineer – Skidmore, Owings and Merrill[62] Mechanical and electrical engineer – McDonough Associates[62] Contractor – Walsh Construction[62] Subcontractor – Permasteelisa Cladding Technologies Ltd.[63] Steel supplier – Littell Steel Company[35] Steel construction – Imperial Construction Associates[35] Sheet metal contractor – Custom Metal Fabricators Inc.[34]

Instead of handrails, the BP Bridge uses parapets (with lights for illumination at night).

Panoramic view from the BP Pedestrian Bridge: Millennium Park and the Jay Pritzker Pavilion are at left, with Columbus Avenue in the foreground. The bridge curves into Daley Bicentennial Plaza at left.

Notes


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References Gilfoyle, Timothy J. (2006). Millennium Park: Creating a Chicago Landmark . Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-29349-3. Sharoff, Robert (2004). Better than Perfect: The Making of Chicago's Millennium Park . Walsh Construction Company.

External links Millennium Park map (http://www.millenniumpark.org/parkevents/parkmap.pdf) City of Chicago Loop Community Map (http://egov.cityofchicago.org/webportal/COCWebPortal /COC_ATTACH/Community_Areas_LOOP.pdf) Media related to BP Pedestrian Bridge (//commons.wikimedia.org /wiki/Category:BP_Pedestrian_Bridge) at Wikimedia Commons Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=BP_Pedestrian_Bridge&oldid=455143603" Categories: Millennium Park Buildings and structures completed in 2004 Box girder bridges Bridges in Chicago, Illinois

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Coordinates: 36°10′2.50″N 115°9′16.50″W

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The Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health (LRCBH), officially the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health, opened on July 13, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada that is operated by the Cleveland Clinic [1] and was designed by world-renowned architect, Frank Gehry of Gehry Partners in Santa Monica, California.

Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health

Contents 1 History 2 Design 3 Criticism 4 Gallery 5 References 6 External links

History

Photo of the South West side of the building in December 2010 General information Type

Research Center

Location

36°10′2.50″N 115°9′16.50″W

Address

888 West Bonneville Avenue Las Vegas, Nevada 89106

Keep Memory Alive (also known as KMA) was founded by Larry Ruvo, senior managing partner of Southern Wines and Spirits, in memory of his father, Lou Ruvo, a victim of Alzheimer’s Disease, together with his wife Camille, Mirage Resorts CEO Bobby Baldwin (who also lost his father to Alzheimer's Disease), and Bobby Baldwin's wife Donna. KMA supports the mission of the Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health and has held several star-studded galas, attended by celebrities and notables from around the world. It has become one of Las Vegas’ most important charity initiatives and a key participant in the nation fight against Alzheimer’s disease. Since its inception, the event has raised more than $20 million towards achieving its goal – the realization of the Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health. Funds committed by such supporters as the Spector Family Foundation, the Roland and Terri Sturm Foundation, Steinberg Diagnostics, the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino and America Online will be utilized for the construction and operation of this incredible state-of-the-art facility. The Center is planned to become a national resource for the most current research and scientific information for the treatment of Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, Huntington 's Diseases, and ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease) as well as focusing on prevention, early detection and education.

United States Construction

February 9, 2007

started

Open for Patient Care - July

Completed

13, 2009 Completed May 21, 2010 est. $100 million

Cost

Design and c onstruction Owner

Keep the Memory Alive Foundation

Main contractor

Whiting-Turner Contracting Co.

Architecture firm

Gehry Partners

Structural

WSP Cantor Seinuk

engineer Civil engineer

G.C. Wallace



Design The ceremonial groundbreaking of the Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health occurred on February 9, 2007. Dignitaries who attended the groundbreaking ceremonies for the $70 million project included founder Larry Ruvo, Frank Gehry, U.S. Senator Harry Reid and John Ensign; U.S. Representative Shelley Berkley, Jon Porter and Dean Heller, Gov. Jim Gibbons, Mayor Oscar Goodman, former Gov. Kenny Guinn, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Kevin Spacey, John Cusack.[2][3] The Center operates as an outpatient treatment and research facility in downtown Las Vegas on land deeded to Keep Memory Alive, the fund raising arm of LRCBH, by the City of Las Vegas as part of its 61 acres (25 ha) Symphony Park. The Center is approximately 65,000 sq ft (6,000 m2) and includes 13 examination rooms, offices for health care practitioners and researchers, a “Museum of the Mind,” and a community auditorium. The Center will also serve as the headquarters for Keep Memory Alive, the Las Vegas Alzheimer’s Association and the Las Vegas Parkinson’s Disease Association.

Criticism On his blog, New Urbanist and architecture critic James Howard Kunstler named the Lou Ruvo center his "Eyesore Of The Month" for April 2010. Kunstler sharply criticized the Center's design, writing: "It seems to say: This is your brain on Frank Gehry". Kunstler suggested that the architecture was inappropriate for the building's purpose: "If I had a problem with my brain, I would not be reassured arriving at this place. The implicit sadism is impressive".

Gallery

The west side of the building

The north side of the building

The south side of the building

Inside the event space

During construction in January 2009

During construction in October 2009

The atrium in the middle



References 1. ^ Cleveland Clinic to manage Lou Ruvo Brain Institute in Las Vegas> (http://www.cleveland.com/news/index.ssf /2009/02/cleveland_clinic_to_manage_lou.html) 2. ^ Katsilometes, John John Katsilometes on the Lou Ruvo Brain Institute's groundbreaking, Las Vegas Sun (http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/do/2007/jan/14/566689985.html) 3. ^ Kevin Spacey, Teri Hatcher and Other Celebs Gather in Vegas to Raise $10-Million for Lou Ruvo Brain Institute (http://www.vegaspopular.com/2007/02/09/kevin-spacey-teri-hatcher-and-other-celebs-gather-in-vegas-to-raise10-million/) Vegas Popular, February 9, 2007.

External links Official Site for the Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health (http://www.keepmemoryalive.org/index.php) VegasTodayAndTomorrow's Ruvo Center page (http://www.vegastodayandtomorrow.com /ruvocenter.htm) James Howard Kunstler's Eyesore Of The Month, April 2010 (http://www.kunstler.com /eyesore_201004.html) Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lou_Ruvo_Center_for_Brain_Health& oldid=453211834" Categories: Frank Gehry buildings Alzheimer's and dementia organizations Healthcare in Las Vegas, Nevada

Charities based in the United States

Buildings and structures in Las Vegas, Nevada

Architecture in Nevada

Deconstructivism

Postmodern architecture in the United States

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