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What other buildings did Frank Gehry design?

I know he designed the Guggenheim in Bilbao, Spain.

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  • 1 decade ago
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    This one I know something about. He designed a building in Rockland California in late 80's for Herman Miller, Inc. This was one of his first "pillowed metal skins" that pinged in the sun and the wind. He applied this same skin principal at Bilbao.

    He designed the "Music Experience" museum at the base of the space needle in Seattle. It was meant to look like a smashed electric guitar (that being something some popular musicians were doing to their instruments at the time)

    He did some restaurants with some delightful "fish torso's" that were lit from the inside and massive.

    Also the Dolphin and Swan hotels in Disneyworld... these were to be the experience of living cartoons, with elegance that was over-the-top humor.

    How do I know? I was his driver and a project coordinator when he was visiting his client at one of these projects.

    Glad you have some interest.

  • Notable structures include the Vitra Furniture Museum and Factory (1987) in Weil am Rhein, Germany; the American Center (1988–94) in Paris; and the Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum (1990–93) at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis.

    Also the Experience Music Project (1995–99) in Seattle, Washington. Constructed of a fabricated steel frame wrapped in colourful sheet metal, the structure was, according to Gehry, modeled on the shape of a guitar—particularly, a smashed electric guitar. As with the Guggenheim structure, he employed cutting-edge computer technology to uncover the engineering solutions that could bring his sculptural sketches to life. In his 70s at the turn of the 21st century, Gehry continued to be offered numerous large-scale commissions.

  • psyop6
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

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    "...His best known works include the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, which is covered in titanium, Walt Disney Concert Hall in downtown Los Angeles, Dancing House in Prague, Czech Republic, and his private residence in Santa Monica, California, the latter of which jump-started his substantive career and lifted it from the stature of "paper architecture", a phenomenon in which many famous architects are observed to have experienced their formative decades experimenting almost exclusively on paper before receiving their first major commission in their later years...."

  • 1 decade ago

    Frank also designed the very famous "Dancing" building in Prague, Czech Republic. It was designed to look like Fred and Ginger dancing.

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  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    It would be made of recycled yarn and have many sharp edges. Of course, I don't think he'd win approval from the Colorado Springs zoning board. Possibly....they are highly "enlightened".

  • jerry
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    not sure

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