Gehry’s Disney Theater, photo by Arash Hazeghi.
Does the logo look too Frank Gehry? Maybe not. He’s all about Synclines (at least on the Disney Theater), and it’s firmly rooted in Anticlines.
It’s amazing that Gehry is 79, and really hitting his stride career-wise. If he was a pop star, his breakout work would have been the Guggenheim Bilbao… Does the Wiseman Art Museum count? It seems like it’s just prior his peak, but it has some anticlines.
Architects have such gloriously long careers. Much preferable to the disposability of pop stars, models, athletes (those are obvious) but also graphic designers, or maybe just me.
Just two of our favorite New York residents:
Paul Klee. Letter Ghost, 1937
Pablo Picasso. Woman in White, 1923
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Elsewhere
Exodus of S.F.’s middle class
SF Gate
“From 2002 to 2006, the number of households making up to $49,000 per year dropped by 7.4 percent, those earning between $50,000 and $99,999 declined by 4.4 percent, and those bringing home between $100,000 and $149,999 fell by 3.9 percent, according to Census Bureau estimates. In polar opposition, the number of households making between $150,000 and $199,999 surged 52.2 percent and those earning more than $200,000 climbed 40.1 percent.”
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Frank Gehry’s renderings for the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi
I’m the Designer. My Client’s the Autocrat.
New York Times (free subscription required)
“With a growing number of prominent architects designing buildings in places like China, Iran, Abu Dhabi and Dubai, where development has exploded as civic freedoms or exploitation of migrant labor have come under greater scrutiny, the issue has inched back into the spotlight.”
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Dubai, The Developer’s Guide to Kitsch
Agents of Urbanism
“Dubai has become a playground for architects, a literal sandbox. Unfortunately, however, the demand for design is greater than the supply of good ideas. Therefore, the developers are relying on simple iconographic forms rather than well thought out, formal architecture that revels in its complexity.”
