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Frank Gehry Architect : Architecture

December 6, 2025

We report the death of Frank Gehry, a true legend of architecture whose designs and brilliance have shaped Los Angeles and the world.

His most famous works include the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in Spain, the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles.

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Contemporary American Architecture Practice – Key Buildings by this LA Design Studio, California, USA

Frank Gehry Architect

Gehry Partners : Key Buildings – Projects:

Walt Disney Concert Hall Building – Los Angeles Philharmonic, Southern California, USA
Date built: 2003

picture © Andrew McRae

Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Basque Country, north east Spain
Date built: 1997

photo © Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
The building that made Frank famous with non-architects.

New York by Gehry, 8 Spruce Street, New York City, USA

photo : Gehry Photos

Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2008 Design, London, England, UK
Date built: 2008

photograph © Adrian Welch

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Gehry Partners Featured Buildings

Buildings / Designs by Frank Gehry listed chronologically:

Eisenhower Memorial, Washington DC, USA

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Eisenhower Memorial Design

Signature Center Building, New York, USA

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Weisman Art Museum Building, Minneapolis, USA

image courtesy Gehry Partners

Guggenheim Abu Dhabi Contemporary Arts Museum Building, UAE

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Saadiyat Island Buildings

Maggies Centre, Dundee, Scotland, UK
Date built: 2003
Design: Frank Gehry with James F Stephen Architects

image © Adrian Welch 2003
Maggies Dundee building

Barcelona Fish Sculpture building, Peix Hotel d’Arts, Port Olimpic, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Dates built: 1988-92

image © Adrian Welch 2005

Frank Gehry Project Serpentine London 2008 images

Frank Gehry Buildings

Major Buildings by FOGA, alphabetical:

Atlantic Yards – proposal, Brooklyn, New York, United States of America
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Developer: Forest City Ratner

Barry Diller Headquarters, New York, USA
Date built: 2007

Dubai Guggenheim – proposal, UAE
2007-

Fred & Ginger building, Jiraskuv Bridge, central Prague, Czech Republic
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Prague Building – The Dancing Building, officially the ‘Rasin Building’

Hotel Marqués De Riscal, Elciego, Spain
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Frank Gehry’s second Spanish building

InterActiveCorp HQ, Manhattan, United States of America
Date built: 2007
InterActivCorp New York

Le Clos Jordanne – Winery, Ontario, Canada
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Lehi Development, Utah, United States of America
Date built: 2007

Louis Vuitton Foundation for Creation, Paris, France
Cost: £70m
Louis Vuitton Foundation for Creation – French project

Marqués de Riscal Winery, Rioja, Spain
Date built: 2007

MARTa Herford, Germany
Exuberant brick building with wild metal roof that looks like it has been draped on, as opposed to the earlier Bilbao Guggenheim where the roof and walls become one, intertwined using the same material.

Medien-Hafen Buildings, Düsseldorf, Germany
Designs by Frank Gehry, Steven Holl, Ingenhoven Overdiek, Claude Vasconi, David Chipperfield Architects; buildings coming soon by JSK, Jo Coenen, Fumihiko Maki

Museum of Tolerance, Jerusalem, Israel
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Museum of Tolerance Building : Frank Gehry departure from the project Jan 2010

Novartis pharmaceutical company building, Switzerland
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Designs by Sanaa Architects + Diener & Diener Architects + Frank Gehry Architects
Cost: $1.5 billion
Related Development:
Herzog & de Meuron Architects
New Tower + New research and development facility for Swiss pharmaceutical company Roche. Location: headquarters complex, on River Rhine.
Cost: 800 million Swiss francs for both projects

Princeton University – Science Library, New Jersey, USA
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Frank Gehry – Winner of RIBA Gold Medal 2000

Gehry Partners Projects

Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, California, USA
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain
Ray & Maria Stat Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Experience Music Project, Seattle, Washington, USA
Corcoran Gallery & School of Art, Washington DC, USA
Millennium Park Music Pavilion and Great Lawn, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Ohr-O’Keefe Museum, Biloxi, Mississippi, USA
Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Bard College Center for the Performing Arts, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, USA
University of Toledo Center for the Visual Arts, Toledo, Ohio, USA
Amercian Center, Bercy, east Paris 1994
Vitra International Furniture Museum and Factory, Weil am Rhein, Germany
Vitra International Headquarters, Basel, Switzerland
Stata Center for Computer, Information and Intelligence Sciences, MIT, Boston, Massachusetts, USA 2004
Marques de Riscal Winery, Elciego, Spain
DG Bank Building, Brandenburg Gate, Berlin, Germany
Der Neue Zollhof office complex, Düsseldorf, Germany
Peter B. Lewis Campus of the Weatherhead School of Management, Case
Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Vontz Center for Molecular Studies, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Maggie’s Centre, Dundee, Scotland, UK
Team Disneyland Administration Building, Anaheim, California, USA
Nationale-Nederlanden Building, Prague, Czech Republic
EMR Communication & Technology Center, Bad Oeynhausen, Germany
Vila Olimpica Retail and Commercial Complex, Barcelona, Spain

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Location: Los Angeles, California, USA

Frank Gehry Architect Practice Information

Gehry Partners

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Frank Gehry established an architecture practice in Los Angeles, California in 1962. Gehry Partners, LLP, was formed in 2002. There are three architect partners of the company: Frank Gehry, James Glymph, & Randy Jefferson. Gehry Partners is located in Santa Monica, California. The firm uses CATIA, a three-dimensional computer modelling program – originally designed for the aerospace industry.

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Pritzker Prize Architects – Frank was a Pritzker Prize Winner in 1989.

The late Charles Jencks : Client & Friend of the architect

Gehry Partners Scottish Project : Guggenheim, Leith

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