Magazine

John Hill | 07.10.2023

Headlines

Twenty years after the opening of the Walt Disney Concert Hall, and six years after the Getty acquired the archive of its architect, Frank Gehry, the Getty is putting on a two-part exhibition devoted to the design of the building.


John Hill | 14.06.2023

Headlines

As announced on Friday, June 9, when architects were gathering in San Francisco for the AIA Conference on Architecture, Frank Gehry's iconic, game-changing Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is the latest recipient of the AIA's Twenty-five Year Award.


John Hill | 19.04.2023

Headlines

Frank Gehry and Bjarke Ingels are the big names among the five architecture firms vying to design the planned National Museum of the U.S. Navy in an “artistic ideas competition.”


John Hill | 03.06.2022

Headlines

Developers Great Gulf, Dream, and Westdale Properties have unveiled design details for Forma, a two-tower residential development in Downtown Toronto designed by Frank Gehry.


John Hill | 28.04.2022

Headlines

The Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) has announces that Selldorf Architects, Diamond Schmitt, and Two Row Architect will lead the design phase of "AGO Global Contemporary," the museum’s proposed expansion project.


John Hill | 17.03.2022

Found

The Colburn School, Los Angeles’s world-renowned school for music and dance, has unveiled Frank Gehry's design for the Colburn Center, to be located across the street from the school's existing facilities and two blocks from Gehry's famed Walt Disney Concert Hall.


John Hill | 08.11.2021

Headlines

The Real Deal is reporting that the 76-story residential tower at 8 Spruce Street in Lower Manhattan designed by Frank Gehry and that goes by the name New York by Gehry is for sale, with an asking price of $850 million. 


John Hill | 22.09.2021

Headlines

Guggenheim director Richard Armstrong, speaking at a press conference in Basel, Switzerland, announced that the long awaited — and much delayed — Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, designed by Frank Gehry, will open in 2026.


John Hill | 29.06.2021

Film

The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art has released a 14-minute film with snippets of longer interviews they conducted with Renzo Piano, Tatiana Bilbao, Frank Gehry, Kengo Kuma, Anna Heringer, Norman Foster, Bjarke Ingels, Alejandro Aravena, Anne Lacaton, and Anupama Kundoo.


Ulf Meyer | 28.06.2021

Headlines

For a small town like Arles, not far away from the Cote d’Azur, Frank O. Gehry’s tower is a landmark because of its height and twisted shape; yet even without its shininess, the building at the heart of the new art campus in France would stand out. The 11,000 stainless steel panels that cover...


John Hill | 01.04.2021

Headlines

The Philadelphia Museum of Art has announced that Frank Gehry's renovation, reorganization, and expansion of the museum's 93-year-old landmark building will open to the public on May 7, 2021.


John Hill | 10.11.2020

Film

Mateo Kries, director of the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein, Germany, gives a brief tour of the building designed by Frank Gehry in 1989 and provides some context on why it's such an important piece of museum architecture.


John Hill | 29.09.2020

Headlines

To celebrate its 150th anniversary, Hennessy X.O is releasing a limited run of 150 numbered decanters featuring a crinkled sleeve of 24 carat gold-dipped bronze designed by architect Frank Gehry.


John Hill | 16.09.2020

Headlines

More than twenty years in the making, the Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial, designed by Frank Gehry, is being formally dedicated on September 17 and opening to the public one day later.


Ulf Meyer | 28.02.2019

Insight

Frank Gehry turns 90 today. He has achieved … everything.


John Hill | 21.02.2019

Headlines

With Frank Gehry's 90th birthday coming at the end of the month, it's worth checking in on the status of two huge projects he's working on in the city he calls home and the one where he was born.


John Hill | 14.02.2019

Film

Louisiana Museum of Modern Art's Louisiana Channel sits down with Frank Gehry in his Santa Monica studio. The architect, who turns 90 at the end of this month, speaks about everything from flunking a drawing class when he was young to his advice for a post-Trump world.


John Hill | 05.09.2018

Film

Facebook has released a short film about the newest building on its campus in Menlo Park, California. MPK 21, as it's called, was designed by Frank Gehry and is connected to his earlier MPK 20.


John Hill | 21.08.2018

Found

The paintings of Thomas Kinkade – the Painter of LightTM – and icons of modern residential architecture by the likes of Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, and Frank Gehry would seem to be an incompatible mix. But in the hands of @robyniko, a series of Kinkade + Modernism...


John Hill | 22.02.2018

Headlines

A few architecture-related stories making headlines this week in New York City.


John Hill | 08.11.2017

Headlines

Last week the controversial Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial, designed by Frank Gehry, held a ceremonial groundbreaking on its four-acre site on Independence Avenue in Washington, DC.


John Hill | 18.10.2017

Film

...the Guggenheim Bilbao opened its doors for the first time. The museum celebrated the 20th anniversary of its Frank Gehry-designed building with a light show gracing the building's titanium skin.


John Hill | 26.09.2017

Film

Eric Reinholdt, an architect who lives and works on a small island just off the coast of Maine, has taken the Frank Gehry MasterClass and posted a review on his 30x40 Design Workshop YouTube channel.


Dan Brunn Architecture | 17.07.2017

Reseñas

The name given this residential renovation is a fitting one: A main feature of Los Angeles architect Dan Brunn's renovation of a 1975 Frank Gehry house is hidden behind a large pivoting wall. In addition to the "Hide Out," the project includes a sculptural wood stair that references...


John Hill | 10.07.2017

Headlines

The Barbican, London Symphony Orchestra and Guildhall School of Music & Drama have announced the shortlist for the planned Centre for Music in the City of London.


John Hill | 30.03.2017

Headlines

The Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles has announced the acquisition of more than thirty years of Frank Gehry's drawings, models, project documentation, correspondence, photographs, and other artifacts on 283 projects.


John Hill | 17.02.2017

Headlines

Pritzker Prize-winning architect Frank Gehry will give an online master class on design and architecture as part of MasterClass's series of "online classes from world-renowned instructors."


John Hill | 23.11.2016

Headlines

Architects Frank Gehry and May Lin were among the 21 recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, which were conferred by U.S. President Barack Obama last night in a ceremony in the White House's East Room.


John Hill | 11.05.2016

Found

Today the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris unveiled a temporary work by Daniel Buren that covers the glass "sails" of the Frank Gehry-designed museum with a checkerboard of filters in thirteen colors.


John Hill | 23.11.2015

Headlines

REX, the Brooklyn firm headed by former OMA partner Joshua Prince-Ramus, has been selected to design the Performing Arts Center at the World Trade Center, long a question mark in the sixteen-acre master plan.


John Hill | 21.05.2015

Headlines

The guest house Frank Gehry designed for Penny and Mike Winton in 1987 sold at auction in Chicago on 19 May after "lackluster bidding."


John Hill | 01.05.2015

Headlines

The "Tin House," which Frank Gehry designed for artist Ron Davis in the late 1960s and has been owned by actor Patrick Dempsey since 2009, has hit the market with an asking price of $14.5 million.


John Hill | 27.04.2015

Insight

The State of the Art in Architecture is the theme of the inaugural Chicago Architecture Biennial, which gets underway in just over five months. To get a sense of the state of architecture in the city, we take a look at 15 buildings from the last 15 years.


John Hill | 08.04.2015

Headlines

Soon after moving into its Frank Gehry-designed headquarters in Menlo Park, California, Facebook has revealed plans for two adjacent buildings also designed by Gehry.


John Hill | 31.03.2015

Headlines

Yesterday Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg posted on Faceboook that "we moved into our new Facebook building in Menlo Park, California," accompanied by a photo of the building's green roof.


John Hill | 03.03.2015

Headlines

The University of St. Thomas · Minnesota has announced it will auction off the Frank Gehry-designed Winton Guest House in May, six years after the school relocated the building from its original site.