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$300 Million "No Frank Gehry" Award
An Iowa-based philanthropist and architecture aficionado has offered a $300 million reward to any city anywhere in the world that dares to hire someone other than Frank Gehry to design its gleaming new art museum.
— WSJ
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is this for real?
"I'm just saying we should give an architect not named Frank Gehry a chance. If we can find one..."
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"There's a swoopy Frank Gehry building in L.A. There are swoopy Frank Gehry buildings in New York, Seattle, Cleveland, Toronto, Cambridge, Mass., and Princeton, N.J. That's not to mention the swoopy Frank Gehry buildings in Basel, Switzerland, Miami Beach, Las Vegas and Bilbao, Spain. Everywhere you go on the planet, whether it's an art museum, a concert hall, a corporate headquarters or a hospital, there's a swoopy Gehry building."
I don't understand the rhetoric. Am i missing something?
There's a white Meier building everywhere. There's a disjointed, goofy Holl building everywhere (in China). There are OMA buildings poping up everywhere (or will). Zaha, Morphosis, etc.
This article makes no sense to me.
HAHA! ........... TRY ME!
"So there's a strong possibility that my $300 million might just sit there, unclaimed, forever."
I can put this to a good use!
He might as well give the money to Renzo Piano
Give chance to new, young and fresh firms...
Give the money to Detroit! We are Frank Gehry-free and could use it more than any other city!
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