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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2009
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NEWS ABOUT: Frank Gehry

Frank Gehry stories: 8 news summaries
ARCHITECTURE REVIEW

 Toronto Opens 
 Gehry's Sober 
 Masterpiece 

Art Gallery of Ontario eschews wild curves for spare, light-filled spaces

Dec 4, 08 9:28 AM CST
(Newser) - Frank Gehry has lived in Los Angeles for decades, but the celebrity architect was born and raised in Toronto. On the eve of his 80th birthday, his hometown has opened its first Gehry building: the new Art Gallery of Ontario, in Toronto's Chinatown. Gehry's renovated museum, which displays a... More »

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art museum • architecture • Canada • Frank Gehry • Toronto

Tolerance Museum Digs Up Trouble in Jerusalem

Arab angered as construction of Gehry-designed site disturbs remains

Nov 21, 08 2:59 PM CST
(Newser) - A parking lot in downtown Jerusalem is the latest battleground in the Arab-Israel conflict, Bloomberg reports, as plans for a museum of tolerance have inflamed tensions after initial construction work uncovered human remains in long-abandoned Muslim cemetery. The Israeli supreme court’s decision to approve the re-interment of Muslims remains... More »

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Israel • Jerusalem • Palestinians • Frank Gehry • Simon Wiesenthal Center • Museum of Tolerance • Center for Human Dignity

10 Must-See Big Apple Buildings 

There's plenty of NYC beyond the Empire State Building, Statue of Liberty

Feb 25, 08 6:35 AM CST
(Newser) - Headed to New York for a burst of sightseeing? Trade the Statue of Liberty for a tour of the Big Apple’s 10 must-see buildings, as compiled by the Center for Architecture:
  1. Conde Nast Building
  2. Brooklyn Museum
  3. Prada New York
  4. Rose Center For Earth And Space
  5. Apple Store Soho
... More »

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architecture • Prada • New York City • Brooklyn • Empire State Building • Frank Gehry • Renzo Piano • Conde Nast Building • Brooklyn Museum • Rose Center for Earth and Space • Apple Store Soho • Grand Central Terminal • Seagram building • Morgan Library • Mies van der Rohe

MIT Sues
Gehry for Negligence

Architect's $15M design for campus building called 'deficient'

Nov 6, 07 5:35 PM CST
(Newser) - One of the most famous buildings on the MIT campus is plagued by design flaws, the school says, and it has sued Frank Gehry, alleging the world-famous architect provided "deficient design services" for the $300 million project. The university paid Gehry $15 million to design the Stata Center, which... More »

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architecture • MIT • lawsuit • Frank Gehry • Stata Center • negligence

Palatial Design, Modest Price

Can a Kiwi architect create the future of urban design in the Chicago suburbs?

Nov 4, 07 10:33 AM CST
(Newser) - Students of urban design should take a lesson from a new condominium development in Chicago's northern suburbs, the Chicago Tribune's architectural critic Blair Kamin says. Its three 20-story buildings in Skokie not only "create an instant skyline for a suburb that doesn't have one," they use Lego-like layers... More »

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architecture • Chicago • Santiago Calatrava • Blair Kamin • Frank Gehry • Skokie • modernism • Old Orchard • David Hovey

10 Years on, Bilbao Still Wows

Oct 28, 07 7:48 AM CDT
(Newser) - Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Bilbao is ten years old this week, freshly buffed and looking better than ever, Bloomberg reports. The birthday is marked by a successful show of American heavyweights like Keith Haring, Julian Schnabel and Richard Serra. Bilbao continues to benefit from the cultural attention garnered by the building,... More »

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Julian Schnabel • Mexico • Taiwan • Rio de Janeiro • Abu Dhabi • Frank Gehry • Guggenheim Bilbao • Bilbao • Richard Serra • Keith Haring

Muschamp, Critic's Critic, Dies at 59

Wrote during 'surge
of exuberance' in architecture

Oct 3, 07 6:24 PM CDT
(Newser) - Architecture critic Herbert Muschamp died of lung cancer last night at age 59, the New York Times reports. Muschamp wrote for the Times during a “surge of exuberance” in architecture, and his personal style grabbed readers for more than a decade. Said the Times editor who hired him, “... More »

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architecture • Andy Warhol • World Trade Center • obituary • Frank Gehry • Herbert Muschamp • Nicolai Ouroussoff • Daniel Libeskind • Guggenheim Bilbao • The Factory

10 Modern Chicago Masterpieces

Aug 28, 07 9:34 PM CDT
(Newser) - In a city known for its early 20th Century buildings, Chicago Magazine names 10 early 21st Century masterpieces, boasting that these structures make Chicago "a global epicenter of architecture."
  1. GARY COMER YOUTH CENTER (2006)  John Ronan Architects, 7200 South Ingleside Avenue
  1. STATE
... More »

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architecture • Chicago • list • Frank Gehry • Pritzker • Booth Hansen • Perkins Will • Krueck and Sexton • John Ronan • Millennium Park

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