The Binoculars Building, originally the Chiat/Day Building, is a commercial office building located in the Venice neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. Built between 1985-1991 for advertising agency Chiat/Day (now TBWA\Chiat\Day) as its West Coast corporate headquarters, it was designed by Los Angeles architect Frank Gehry, his last project in Los Angeles until the Walt Disney Concert Hall began construction in 1999.

Binoculars Building

The Hollywood Bowl is a modern amphitheater in the Hollywood area of Los Angeles, California, United States that is used primarily for music performances. It is the largest natural amphitheater in the United States, with a seating capacity of nearly 18,000

Hollywood Bowl

A 3 loft condominium project designed by Frank Gehry and owned by actor/ artist Dennis Hopper. 

Indiana Avenue Houses

Disney Concert Hall

A Rose For Lilly - Lillian Disney Memorial Fountain

The Walt Disney Concert Hall at 111 South Grand Avenue in downtown Los Angeles, California, is the fourth hall of the Los Angeles Music Center and was designed by Frank Gehry. It was opened on October 23, 2003. Bounded by Hope Street, Grand Avenue, and 1st and 2nd Streets, it seats 2,265 people and serves, among other purposes, as the home of the Los Angeles Philharmonic orchestra and the Los Angeles Master Chorale. The hall is a compromise between a vineyard-style seating configuration, like the Berliner Philharmonie by Hans Scharoun, and a classical shoebox design like the Vienna Musikverein or the Boston Symphony Hall.Lillian Disney made an initial gift of $50 million in 1987 to build a performance venue as a gift to the people of Los Angeles and a tribute to Walt Disney's devotion to the arts and to the city. Both Gehry's architecture and the acoustics of the concert hall, designed by Minoru Nagata,[3] the final completion supervised by Nagata's assistant and protege Yasuhisa Toyota, have been praised, in contrast to its predecessor, the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion.

Neil Denari talks about Walt Disney Concert Hall.

 The Ray and Maria Stata Center for Computer, Information and Intelligence Sciences is built on the site of MIT's legendary Building 20, a "temporary" timber-framed building constructed during World War II that served as a breeding ground for many of the great ideas that were born at MIT. Designed by renowned architect Frank O. Gehry, the Stata Center is meant to carry on Building 20's innovative and serendipitous spirit, and to foster interaction and collaboration across many disciplines. The building is home to the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS) and the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy. Its striking design&mdash;featuring tilting towers, many-angled walls and whimsical shapes&mdash;challenges much of the conventional wisdom of laboratory and campus building. When the building opened in 2004, Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Robert Campbell wrote in the Boston Globe that the building is "a work of architecture that embodies serious thinking about how people live and work, and at the same time shouts the joy of invention." 

Ray and Maria Stata Center

The Grand is a 1,130,000 square-foot mixed-use development in downtown Los Angeles across from The Broad Museum and Walt Disney Concert Hall that includes commercial, cultural and grand public spaces and 164,000 square-foot of retail and restaurant area. The Conrad Hotel is 24 stories with 305 rooms. The Grand by Gehry is a 39-story, 436-unit residential tower with a 2,400 square-foot fitness center, lounge and bar, catering kitchen and co-working spaces.

The Grand 

The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, situated in Bilbao, Spain, is an architectural landmark designed by Frank Gehry and inaugurated in 1997. The structure is notable for its innovative use of materials, primarily titanium, limestone, and glass, creating a dynamic and fluid exterior. The design, inspired by the industrial and maritime context of the area, evokes the shape of a ship and integrates seamlessly with the adjacent Nervión River.The museum's construction was part of an urban renewal project aimed at transforming Bilbao into a cultural and tourist destination. Its opening marked the beginning of what is now referred to as the "Bilbao Effect," a term used to describe the economic and cultural revitalization of a city through iconic architectural projects.Characterized by its curved and irregular surfaces, the Guggenheim Bilbao challenges conventional architectural forms and has become a symbol of contemporary design. Its interior includes expansive gallery spaces and a central atrium that allows for a range of modern and contemporary art exhibitions. The building's design has received widespread acclaim, cementing Gehry's reputation as a pioneer of deconstructivist architecture.

Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

The Gehry Residence is Frank Gehry's own house. It was originally an extension, designed by Gehry built around an existing house. It makes use of unconventional materials, such as chain link fences and corrugated steel. It is sometimes considered one of the earliest deconstructivist buildings, although Gehry himself denies that it was deconstructivism.

Gehry Residence

This architecturally famous City aquarium functions as a teaching / research facility for early and continuing education in the marine environment of southern California. Since 1981 it has come to serve 400,000 school-age visitors a year and its outreach programs serve hundreds of schools. The tightly bounded site, leased from the Harbor Department, overlooks a beach park and wildlife refuge and adjoins salt marshes, tide pools, and one of the busiest harbors in the world.

A Unique Institution with Problems of Success: The original one-story, 23,000 square foot facility was the influential mid-career work of Frank Gehry. It clustered indoor and outdoor exhibit spaces, an auditorium, wet laboratories and offices around a central open space wrapped in chain-link fencing. The look is fishing village industrial with occasional naval riffs. Free-standing tanks served by exposed electrical and plumbing systems openly display mechanical functions. Our critical guides were the veteran curators who work these spaces, designing and maintaining their own exhibits on diversity, ecology, adaptation, and behavior of indigenous marine life forms.

The buildings had matured well but expanded programs and intense visitor use had rendered exhibit and work spaces inadequate. Infrastructure and life support systems were patched together and barely functional. A realignment of the entry drive forced visitors to approach the complex from the rear, obscuring the entrance in a confusing sequence that began at the loading dock.

Respectful Difference: Re-Definition and Improvement: Phase I grew from our master plan for phased expansion. Programming workshops ranked options and impacts resulting in a two-story, three-part scheme that houses new facilities, clarifies entry, and restructures group movement. The budget kept our design for the 21,000 -square foot Phase I as simple as we could make it. Compressed by lease lines and fire roads, the plan respects the earlier design but departs from it in significant ways. It frames the original core but finds inside it a new sequence of three courtyards – one landscaped, one enclosed by chain-link fabric, and a new larger one that slopes to accommodate both out door exhibits and special events. It increases density, shifting from one story to two. The boxy roof monitors that light library and workspaces on upper floor and materials – metal siding and stucco – play off the original design, but a new device - faceted screen of rust-proof fiberglass tubes - leads the eye to the original chain-link entry kiosk now visually reinforced by the walls of a new accessibility ramp.

Ground floor wet labs with flexible overhead servicing extend programming into the new courtyard. An upper floor terrace leads past a clerestoried administration suite to the new marine biology library that cantilevers protectively over the life-support system - the heart of the project - and opens it to view. Views out from the upper level connect the aquarium, for the first time, to the ocean beyond. Interiors continue the post and beam / wood-decking / exposed conduit texture of the existing structure. Phase II calls for an L-shaped outreach building that will complete the rectangle and back-up the existing entry with a tall banner wall. The garden court that it encloses provides an assembly / resting space under a canopy of shade trees.

Cabrillo Marine Aquarium

The Gehry Loggia is Park Century School's new main entryway into the remodeled building at 3939 Landmark Street. The loggia is enclosed by a sheer glass curtain to which glass silhouettes of trees and stars will be affixed. The motif is inspired by the school's logo and mission, but also serves to blend with the surrounding landscape and setting. 





Gehry Loggia

A notable addition to the downtown skyline with its undulating curtain wall, 8 Spruce Street, previously known as the Beekman Tower and New York by Gehry, is a 76-story skyscraper rises to 867 feet in the Financial District of Manhattan, New York City. 8 Spruce Street is one of the tallest residential towers in the world, and it was the tallest residential tower in the Western Hemisphere at the time of opening in February 2011. It contains a public elementary school owned by the Department of Education. Above that and grade-level retail, the tower contains over 900 apartments. The skyscraper's structural frame is made of reinforced concrete, and form-wise it falls within the architectural style of Deconstructivism along with Aqua, a skyscraper in Chicago begun after but completed before 8 Spruce.

New York by Gehry

8 Spruce Street

Millennium Park

Frank Gehry, originally Frank Goldberg, was born in 1929 in Toronto. He graduated from the University of Southern California in 1954 with a degree in architecture and studied city planning at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. Gehry worked for architectural firms in California and Paris before opening his own practice in Santa Monica in 1962, which evolved into Gehry Partners, LLP by 2002. His work, known for its post-modern and deconstructive style, ranges from residential and commercial to large institutional structures. Notable projects include the Guggenheim Museum in Spain, Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, and the Dancing House in Prague. Gehry has also served as a professor at Yale and Harvard and as a visiting scholar in Switzerland. His contributions to architecture have been recognized with awards such as the Pritzker Prize and the National Medal of Arts. He is a fellow and trustee of multiple prestigious arts and architecture institutions. Gehry resides and works in Los Angeles, California.

Gehry Partners, LLP Office

Brian Tolman discusses the interior of the IAC Headquarters Building.

Frank Gehry

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