>>ksajad+(OP)
NYT obit https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/arts/design/frank-gehry-d... (>>46166034 )

>>losved+57
They sued him for it:

https://thetech.com/2010/03/19/statasuit-v130-n14

>>ksajad+(OP)
He also designed a Facebook’s office in Menlo Park. The roof was literally a park, seemingly blending with the bay and you could go for a nice nature stroll mid-day by just going up a flight of stairs. https://arquitecturaviva.com/works/facebook-campus-in-menlo-...

>>ksajad+(OP)
I grew up a few blocks from his funky Santa Monica house [1], passed by it all the time. When you’re a kid you typically see wild new things like that as just normal because you have no context for how unusual they are. His house defied that perspective; even as a kid you understand that being wrapped in oddly angled chain link fences and corrugated metal is just... different. It's an unanswered question, a loose thread, a thing you can't unknow.

I don't particularly like the house - it's meant to be challenging not beautiful - but with perspective I see now there aren't many creations out there that achieve existence in eternal confusion like it does for me. I see his other works like Bilbao [2] and Disney Hall as refinements on the concept with the added dimension of beauty. They're not quite as memorable, but I think do a great job exploring the frontier of beauty and befuddlement.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gehry_Residence

[2] especially the aerial perspective https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guggenheim_Museum_Bilbao#/medi...

>>ssttoo+o9
I worked in this building. It was terrible. Low light, completely open office, people walking around you all the time, extremely noisy, pretty ugly (the roof-top garden was the exception). My team expensed noise cancelling headphones because it was so loud.

MPK 22 was also designed by Gehry Partners, which was a massive improvement on the inside, but outside is still kinda terrible in my opinion: https://www.truebeck.com/project/facebook-mpk-22/

>>ksajad+(OP)
From 2002: "Frank Gehry No Longer Allowed To Make Sandwiches For Grandkids":

https://theonion.com/frank-gehry-no-longer-allowed-to-make-s...

(just a picture, no story).

>>ksajad+(OP)
Notably one of the first people who whipped out a credit card to buy the 3D CAD/modeling program Rhinoceros 3D at v1.0 on the first day it was available for purchase:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHp7C2Ccu94

which engendered the opensource node editor Grasshopper eventually expanding to a ménagerie of animal-named support applications.

>>ksajad+(OP)
I worked in the IAC NYC HQ for a while (as Dir Engineering for The Daily Beast).

It was really nice walking into that space. Always been influenced by architecture in my engineering career and it was really nice to have that pedigree infused into my workspace just a little bit. It's just a little dose of delight every day.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IAC_Building

>>djtrip+Mx
I also worked there for quite some time and always enjoyed walking into that building each morning.

The 9th (top) floor cafeteria was such a nice touch and offered great views up and down the Hudson.

I took this photo[0] from up there of Space Shuttle Enterprise being delivered to the Intrepid in 2012.

[0] https://imgur.com/a/XQpXXzE

>>onioni+g9
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1p6rrn-PimU

>>ksajad+(OP)
There's the Seattle Museum of Popular Culture which has it's fans and non-fans

https://www.gscinparis.com/frank-gehrys-experience-music-pro...

Me, it doesn't do it for me personally. I like that it's "different" though. Many museums are "different"

>>neilv+Qh
He was pretty open about his design process, and I think he did voice this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENa2Hmh3lGU

>>ternus+tc
The building replaced a beloved Ww2 era temporary structure that lasted 50 Years.

Making a statement with architecture rarely goes well, especially if you abandon rectilinear structures.

https://www.rle.mit.edu/media/undercurrents/Vol9_2_Spring97....

>>npunt+s9
For nonarchitects like me, Gehry pushed more than cognitive envelopes, he was also an early tech pioneer

https://blog.bluebeam.com/gehry-technologies-industry-influe...