Frank Gehry: Top 10 architecture projects Subscribe to Archi - TOP 10 to be the first to see more videos: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSOSkBAgcExPhaalRD6ywpQ 10. Olympic Fish Pavilion – Barcelona The 52m long golden fish sculpture “El Peix” is one of the best known and most striking landmarks on Barcelona’s seafront. It’s gold coloured stainless steel surface shines under the Mediterranean sun and changes appearance depending on the angle of the sun and the current weather conditions. The fish statue was built for the 1992 Barcelona Olympics. 9. Vitra Design Museum – Weil am Rhein, Germany Easily recognizable as the architectural style of Frank Gehry, the deconstructive sculptural building differs only slightly than his usual designs in that he limits his materials to white plaster and a titanium-zinc alloy. At only 8,000-square-feet, the two-story Vitra Museum is one of the world's largest collections of furniture, with pieces from most periods and styles beginning with the nineteenth century and continuing into the modern era. 8.DZ Bank building – Berlin The DZ Bank building is an office, conference, and residential building located at Pariser Platz 3 in Berlin. Construction began in 1998 and was completed in 2000. The building is mixed-use. Facing the Brandenburg Gate are offices. On the other side, facing Behrenstraße, are 39 residential apartments. Between the two is a large atrium, designed to be used as a conference or performance space. This is covered with a sophisticated glass-grid roof, curved in a complex form typical of Gehry's designs. 7.Loyola Law School – Los Angeles, USA The playful campus takes inspiration from Thomas Jefferson’s ideal university plan of an “academic village,” allowing students plenty of space to interact.Gehry didn’t try to hide the construction materials, which can be seen in the exposed wood beams of the prayer house. 6.Neuer Zollhof – Dusseldorf, Germany The architecture of the buildings, which goes against all the century-long “standard” notions of construction based on right angles, and unites bold shapes with functionality, is the signature design of internationally renowned Canadian-American architect. His futuristic-deconstructivist design was ingeniously executed over a two-year construction period and completed in 1999. Despite all their differences in size and shape, the three separate buildings form an aesthetically pleasing whole: the façade of the middle building is shiny (stainless steel), reflecting the two neighbouring buildings (white plaster and red brick) on its north and south sides. 5.The Biodiversity Museum, Panama City, Panama The project comprises three main elements: the museum building, the exhibition design and the surrounding park.At the heart of the project is a public outdoor atrium covered by colorful metal canopies designed to protect visitors from frequent wind-driven rains. Surrounding the central atrium are unticketed public areas, including the museum store, a café and a temporary exhibition space, as well as the two main ticketed exhibition wings of the building. 4.Walt Disney Concert Hall – Los Angeles The exterior is a composition of undulating and angled forms, symbolizing musical movement and the motion of Los Angles. The design developed through paper models and sketches, characteristic of Gehry's process. The concert hall was designed as a single volume, with orchestra and audience occupying the same space. Seats are located on each side of the stage, providing some audience members with distant views of the performers’ sheet music. Gehry worked with Yasuhisa Toyota, the acoustical consultant, to hone the hall’s sound through spatial and material means. To test the acoustics, they used a 1:10 scale model of the auditorium, complete with a model occupant in each seat. 3.Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris Constructed on the edge of a water garden created especially for the project, the building comprises an assemblage of white blocks (known as “the icebergs”) clad in panels of fiber-reinforced concrete, surrounded by twelve immense glass “sails” supported by wooden beams. 2.Guggenheim Bilbao – Spain Set on the edge of the Nervión River in Bilbao, Spain, the Guggenheim Museum is a fusion of complex, swirling forms and captivating materiality that responds to an intricate program and an industrial urban context. With over a hundred exhibitions and more than ten million visitors to its recognition, Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim Museum Bilbao not only changed the way that architects and people think about museums, but also boosted Bilbao's economy with its astounding success. 1.Dancing House – Prague, Czech Republic The building is an example of deconstructivist architecture, with an unusual shape. It reflects a woman and man (Ginger Rogers and Fred Astair) dancing together. Construction is from 99 concrete panels each of different shape and dimension, each therefore requiring a unique wooden form.
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