"Tension is a material property that creates both music and architecture", says designer Lihan Jin, alluding to their concert hall's unique facade. Architecture is often referred to as 'frozen music' - a term that pretty much describes the Tension Instrument Concert Hall's unique, eye-catching design. While most designers try to guide a viewer's eyes on

Discover these amazing buildings devised by the Pritzker Prize–winning architect over the past five decades

Gehry’s crumpled metal tower is the glittering icon of a new cultural campus in the south of France

Discover these amazing buildings devised by the Pritzker Prize–winning architect over the past five decades

Frank Gehry's first major European retrospective opens at the Paris Pompidou

"Tension is a material property that creates both music and architecture", says designer Lihan Jin, alluding to their concert hall's unique facade. Architecture is often referred to as 'frozen music' - a term that pretty much describes the Tension Instrument Concert Hall's unique, eye-catching design. While most designers try to guide a viewer's eyes on

In the world of architecture, there has been a strong storm coming from Canada and USA since the early 1960s. It was a powerful cultural force, that pushed through established, conventional norms of architecture like a tornado, but a tornado which not only destroyed the old and boring but also created and invented. This tornado goes by the name of Frank Gehry. Born in 1929, Gehry eventually moved to the USA, where he started his business. Surprisingly, it was a furniture line, but that was just the first step. After having saved enough money, he began by transforming his own home, thus creating a name for himself. What followed were the gradual steps of becoming a living icon of architecture, that has remodeled many urban landscapes and even created an economic phenomenon. We have combined 10 of his most famous buildings that defined an era of building design.

When it opened in 1997, the Frank Gehry designed Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, a spectacular structure made of titanium, glass and limestone, was instantly hailed as the most important structure of its time. Located in the Basque city of Bilbao in northern Spain, the museum features exhibitions organized by the Guggenheim Foundation and by the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, as well as selections from the permanent collection of the Guggenheim Museums. With over a hundred exhibitions and more than ten million visitors to its credit, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao has changed the way people think about museums, and it continues to challenge assumptions about the connections between art, architecture, and collecting. The entrance to Bilbao's famed Guggenheim Museum Surrounded by attractive avenues and squares, the Museum is located in a newly developed area of the city, leaving its industrial past behind. The Museum plaza and main entrance lie in a direct line with Calle Iparragirre, one of the main streets running diagonally through Bilbao, extending the city center right up the Museum's door. Once in the plaza, visitors access the Hall by making their way down a broad stairway, an unusual feature that successfully overcomes the height difference between the areas alongside the Nervión River, where the Museum stands, and the higher city level. This way, Gehry created a spectacular structure without it rising above the height of adjacent buildings. A sweeping stairway leads visitors from street level into the main floor of the museum Inspired by the shapes and textures of a fish, the museum can be considered a sculpture or work of art in itself. Although the metallic form of the exterior looks almost floral from above‭, ‬from the ground the building more closely resembles a boat‭, ‬evoking the past industrial life of the port of Bilbao‭. ‬Constructed of titanium‭, ‬limestone‭, ‬and glass‭, ‬the seemingly random curves of the exterior are designed to catch the light and react to the sun and the weather‭. The forms aren't governed by any geometric law, but consist of a series of twisting interconnected volumes that because of the museum's mathematical intricacy‭, ‬was designed using a 3-D design software called CATIA‭, ‬which allowed for complex designs and calculations that would not have been possible years ago‭, and has since become a real icon of the city throughout the world. The spectacular 3-storey main atrium An extraordinary Ernesto Neto installation hangs from the ceiling in the atrium Gehry's fabulous glass and steel elevator The highlight of the collection, and its only permanent exhibit, is 'The Matter of Time', a series of monumental weathered steel sculptures designed by Richard Serra which are housed in the enormous 430-foot Arcelor Gallery, a spectacular space that takes up one whole wing of the museum. Richard Serra's 'Snake' and 'A Matter of Time' installation of weathered steel Richard Serra's series of torqued spiral and ellipses encourage people to thread through the shapes which produce a profound physical and emotional response as the angled walls challenge and distort our notions of spatial relationships An outdoor promenade runs along the Nervión River and features a number of artwork installations by various artists 'Maman' by Louise Bourgeois, an mammoth 9-metre tall bronze, marble and stainless steel spider 'Maman' as viewed from the bridge Almost 9 meters tall, Maman is one of the most ambitious of a series of sculptures by Louise Bourgeois that take as their subject the spider, a motif that first appeared in several of the artist's drawings in the 1940s and came to assume a central place in her work during the 1990s. Intended as a tribute to her mother, who was a weaver, "Bourgeois's spiders are highly contradictory as emblems of maternity: they suggest both protector and predator — the silk of a spider is used both to construct cocoons and to bind prey — and embody both strength and fragility. Such ambiguities are powerfully figured in the mammoth Maman, which hovers ominously on legs like Gothic arches that act at once as a cage and as a protective lair to a sac full of eggs perilously attached to her undercarriage. The spider provokes awe and fear, yet her massive height, improbably balanced on slender legs, conveys an almost poignant vulnerability". Anish Kapoor's 'Tall Tree and The Eye' Anish Kapoor's monumental 'Tall Tree and the Eye' consists of 73 reflective spheres anchored around three axes. The mirrored surfaces of the orbs reflect and refract one another, simultaneously creating and dissolving images of the surrounding city, including the Nervión river and the museum itself. For Kapoor, the object is always in a state of becoming as it evolves through varying processes of self-generation, dissolution, fragmentation and multiplication. The body and gaze of the viewer are all-important elements of the work, as each viewer brings their own subjective reality to bear while witnessing and contemplating Kapoor's powerful sculptural presences. 'Tulips' by Jeff Koons Fujiko Nakaya's atmospheric 'Fog' was specially commissioned for the artificial lake at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, and generates fog each hour Renowned artist Fujiko Nakaya was the first artist to have ever worked with fog as a sculptural medium. Her unique approach, both experiential and ephemeral in nature, expresses her fascination for natural phenomena that repeatedly form and dissolve. Fog Sculpture #08025 (F.O.G.) was commissioned at American artist Robert Rauschenberg's invitation to coincide with the opening of his 1999 retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao — "F.O.G." stands for "Frank O. Gehry". Soon after the opening, Rauschenberg purchased the 'installation' and donated it to the museum, and is now permanently installed in the pool next to the riverfront facade of Gehry's billowing titanium structure. A permanent sculpture composed of artificially induced water droplets in a constant state of dissipation into the atmosphere, Fog Sculpture #08025 is "both a phenomenon and an artifact," Nakaya remarks, "a precarious dynamism of nature's balance." Eloquent words, but the experience left me overwhelmed and quite speechless. Fujiko Nakaya's Water Fog Sculpture #08025 is generated by 1,000 fog nozzles and a high-pressure pump/motor system to create a hauntingly beautiful phenomena Yoko Ono's Wish Tree A signed greeting by the artist to commemorate her Wish Tree at the Bilbao Guggenheim View from the top floor of the museum Looking out at Ernesto Neto's hanging installation from the top floor of the museum 'The Falling Body' - Ernesto Neto's installation in the Museum's atrium Ernest Neto is one of Brazil's pre-eminent artists. His inviting installations are immersive habitats that engulf us in a sensual world, and have been created so that they may be penetrated, inhabited, felt, and even smelled, allowing viewers to experience their own bodies, feelings, and minds through the works of art. Neto has commented: “What we have in common is more important than what makes us different.” This explains his interest in investigating the common aspects of human relationships through his sculptures, evoking sensuality and corporality. Developed in close collaboration with the artist, Ernesto Neto: The Body That Carries Me at the Bilbao Guggenheim, includes an extensive selection of his work from the end of the 1980s to the present, some of which have been reconfigured based on new ideas and wishes of the artist, as well as the museum’s specific architecture. Neto tries to create a space for poetry, where visitors can escape from their every day and can stop thinking, breathing “life directly.” Reclining hammock-style beds allow visitors to view Ernesto Neto's ceiling hung installation with a comfortable perspective 'That's Life' by Ernesto Neto The enormous hand-crocheted multicoloured 'That's Life' sculpture is suspended from the ceiling and symbolizes Neto's conception of life, in which there is no separation between humans and nature. Divided into a male part: the suspended walkway, and a female part: the platform on the upper part, the piece re-creates fertilization, the moment when a sperm enters an egg, the beginning of life. Visitor's can remove their shoes and walk up through the sculpture and experience Neto's sensual world first hand. Ernesto Neto's 'Drum (Tambor)', 2010 crocheted creation made from volcanic rock, piano, river rocks, Afro-Brazilian drums and a snare drum A view over Bilbao from inside the Guggenheim The museum and the incredible views are as much a work of art as the exhibitions The titanium exterior of the Guggenheim with Yves Klein's 'Fire Fountain' square jets inset into the museum's man-made lake View of the museum from La Salve Bridge A brightly decorated boat, The Euskal Herria, which translates as Basque Country, passes along the Nervión river in front of the Guggenheim www.guggenheim.org/bilbao

More than 4 billion people live in urban areas globally. It’s now projected that by 2050, more than two-thirds of the world population will live in urban areas. So no wonder we pay more importance to the buildings and structures around us.

Gehry fans in NYC, here's one for you: A selection of over 30 Frank Gehry process models is currently on display at Manhattan's Leslie Feely Fine Art. The exhibition FRANK GEHRY AT WORK opened in April and still runs until June 29. The gallery is located at 33 E 68th Street, 5th Floor.

The Winton guest house: www.wright20.com/pages/gehry

In the world of architecture, there has been a strong storm coming from Canada and USA since the early 1960s. It was a powerful cultural force, that pushed through established, conventional norms of architecture like a tornado, but a tornado which not only destroyed the old and boring but also created and invented. This tornado goes by the name of Frank Gehry. Born in 1929, Gehry eventually moved to the USA, where he started his business. Surprisingly, it was a furniture line, but that was just the first step. After having saved enough money, he began by transforming his own home, thus creating a name for himself. What followed were the gradual steps of becoming a living icon of architecture, that has remodeled many urban landscapes and even created an economic phenomenon. We have combined 10 of his most famous buildings that defined an era of building design.

Architects are always giving each other prizes for good design. Unfortunately, the prizes often go to buildings that are liked by nobody but other architects. The classic case for Boston is surely Boston City Hall. In the bicentennial year of 1976, a national vote among architects and historians named this powerful but sometimes grim structure as one of the 10 greatest works of architecture in American history. The public doesn’t agree. So there’s a taste gap between the general public and the subculture of architects. Why does it matter?

It's rare that an architect is a household name, but Frank Gehry has achieved legendary status. Learn about what it means to be a Frank Gehry building.

The singular envelope of this building teaches us the twisted and the spectacular which the mind can be. Hi, is difficult that in a family so extensive in the time and the space (I talk about mine, of course) do not appear cases of neurodegenerative diseases, like the Alzheimer or the Parkinson, to give just […]

Frank Gehry est, sans aucun doute, un des architectes les plus reconnus au monde. On lui doit notamment le fabuleux Musée Guggenheim à Bilbao en Espagne.

Gorgeous curves at the EMP in Seattle, WA. __ Architectural buildings are one of my favorite subjects to photograph. There are so many different compositions that I can make because of all the lines, symmetry, and contrast. I went down to the EMP for the first time and saw some really cool stuff at the EMP (Experience Music Project) -- there was a Star Wars exhibition going on with the intricate costumes of all the characters in the movies. It is remarkable how much work and thought goes into producing something we don't often pay attention to when we see the movie. Oh, and I got my Seahawks hat stolen while taking these pictures. My trust in humanity has decreased a tad :P

Du Walt Disney Concert Hall à Los Angeles au musée Guggenheim de Bilbao, le style futuriste tout en courbes caractéristique de l’architecte repousse toujours plus loin les limites. La preuve avec ces 10 projets spectaculaires.

Conheça a vida e a obra de Frank Gehry, as curvas de sua arquitetura desconstrutivista e o projeto de sua casa em Santa Mônica.

The road to manifest creativity through the mind of a genius.

In 1978 Frank Gehry built his first Santa Monica House after surveying a gambrel-roofed Dutch Colonial pink bungalow built 1920.

Twenty years ago on 19th October 1997 the famous museum designed by architect Frank Gehry was opened to the public and nothing was the same again

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Discover these amazing buildings devised by the Pritzker Prize–winning architect over the past five decades

With his unique vision and fantastical approach to architecture, winner of the 1989 Pritzker prize Frank Gehry has become an internationally recognized name, known for his iconic buildings around the world from Las Vegas and Los Angeles, to Bilbao and now Paris with the new Louis Vuitton Foundation that opens later this month. Discover some of his finest achievements as a retrospective of his career opens at the Georges Pomidou Center, in Paris.

Frank Gehry, Miss Brooklyn Tower Study, 2004, basswood, paper, Gatorfoam, pushpins, 18 x 7 x 8". The term sculptural has haunted Frank Gehry for much of his spectacularly successful career.…

Discover these amazing buildings devised by the Pritzker Prize–winning architect over the past five decades

When the other products of a culture have faded from human memory, it is the works of architecture that remain to define an era for successive generations. As the 20th century gave way to the 21st, it was hard to dispute that the definitive architect of the age was Frank Gehry, Canadian by birth, a resident of Los Angeles by choice. He first drew notice in his adopted city with works deploying commonplace industrial materials in unexpected ways, but he came to international prominence with works which exploded the geometry of traditional architecture to create a dramatic new form of expression. He deployed cutting-edge computer technology to realize shapes and forms of hitherto unimaginable complexity, such as the startling irregularities of his Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, or the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles. In these monumental buildings, the uninhibited whimsy of his pencil sketches took shape in powerful structures of gleaming titanium. From Switzerland to Japan, from Santa Monica to Prague, his buildings have transformed human expectations of the designed space. Once mocked for their astonishing originality, his buildings have become the signature structures of the challenging times we live in.

How stainlesss steel sheet crops up in our daily lives. “Because I like it!” When I was at the University at the Faculty of Architecture there was a non-written rule: never justify a design choice saying “because I like it”, such an answer could have caused convulsions to the professor and assistants and for sure […]