Der Neue Zolhof in Dusseldorf
The tastemakers at Vanity Fair once called him “the most important architect of our time.” He’s designed a public space for the Guggenheim, a concert hall for Walt Disney, and the structure for the forthcoming Dwight D. Eisenhower memorial, among dozens of other famed buildings around the globe, each twisting, undulating, or otherwise dancing with its maker’s signature — the optical illusion of movement. To say the Canadian-born, California-dwelling, internationally-renowned Frank Gehry has been a few places and done a few things is, at best, an understatement. The Boston listing we ran across of a Gehry-designed Back Bay penthouse last week got us browsing through his iconic works, from the sway of the InterActiveCorp headquarters in New York to the imposing metallic gleam of Der Neue Zolhof on the Rhine in Düsseldorf.
The man who coined the term “liquid architecture” said this of his approach: “You’ve got to bumble forward into the unknown.” Bumble he does, and beautifully so.
Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles
The Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao
InterActiveCorp Headquarters in New York City
Photo credits: An Hour at Evening, Haute Living, The Guggenheim and InterActiveCorp.
