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frank gehry's monumental works

First planned in 1997 as a way to create new parkland in Grant Park and transform unsightly railroad tracks and parking lots, Millennium Park has evolved into the most significant millennium project in the world. And the reviews are already in. "Millennium Park," says one prominent civic leader, "will be a worthy creation for all time. It will define Chicago to the entire world as America’s greatest city. "Located in downtown Chicago on Michigan Avenue between Randolph and Monroe Streets, the 24.5 - acre park is an unprecedented center for world-class art, music, architecture and landscape design, where you can experience everything from interactive public art and ice skating to al fresco dining and free classical music presentations by the Grant Park Orchestra and Chorus. Among the park’s prominent features is the dazzling Jay Pritzker Pavilion, the most sophisticated outdoor concert venue of its kind in the United States, designed by Frank Gehry, one of the world’s greatest living architects.

frank gehry's architectural style

In the year since the concrete frame of Frank Gehry’s first New York building began to rise along the West Side Highway in Chelsea, architecture fans have been quarrelling over its design. The curvaceous glass forms of the IAC headquarters building, evoke crisp pleats of a skirt. Frank Gehry may be the most famous architect at work today, but, like so many of his peers, he has found it nearly impossible to build in New York. Twenty years ago, he designed a tower for the site of Madison Square Garden which never got built, and in recent years a number of projects—a redesign of One Times Square, a downtown branch of the Guggenheim, a hotel for Ian Schrager—have all failed. Now, at the age of seventy-seven, Gehry has completed his first freestanding New York building, a headquarters for Barry Diller’s InterActiveCorp, in Chelsea. It is only ten stories tall, but you can’t drive down the West Side Highway without seeing it—a white glass palazzo that looks less like a building than like a computer-generated image of one. On a cloudy day, it appears to fade into the mist. Gehry has likened the billowing forms of the façade to sails and from a distance it seems to be made of some kind of plastic or fibreglass. All-glass buildings often feel stiff, but in Gehry’s hands even glass is relaxed.

frank gehry's schoolings easy works

Mr.Gehry recieved his bachelor of architecture degree from the University of Southern California in 1953 ,and he studied city planning at the Harvard University graduate school of design. His work has earned Mr.Gehry several of the most significant awards in the architectural field in 1977. Gehry was named reciepent of the Arnold W. Brunner memorial prize in architecture from the american academy of arts and letters . Mr.Gehry’s work ha been featured in major architectural publication and in national and international trade journals as well as Newsweek,Time Forber , The Economist and etc.It doesn’t say much about his early works except that he Before establishing the firm Mr.Gehry worked with architects Victor Gruen , Pereira and Luckman in Los Angeles , and Andres Remondent in paris. the first few bulidings he got recognized for were the Temporary Comtemporary at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles California in the year 1983. The Sirmai-Peterson Residence in Thousand Oaks California in 1988. and last but not least the Nationale-Nederlanden Building Prague in Czech Republic in 1996
The Comtemporary Museum of Comtemporary Art it’s very nice looking the colors of it is brown, The front of the building has a circular design it looks like a cake and the back of the building has two pyramids on top of the museum the backyard also has a beautiful water fountain, it has a lot of trees . The building is also very well built it has alot of rails to hold the building up and it has alot of glass structure.

Frank O. Gehry life before architect

Frank O. Gehry is the design principle for the firm of Frank O. Gehry and associates inc.which he established in 1962. Raised in Toronto ,Canada he moved his family to Los Angeles in 1947, Young Frank often spent the night at his grandparent's house. They had emigrated to Canada from Poland, and although they slowly adopted the ways of their new country, they observed their Jewish traditions. On Thursdays, Frank went to the market with his grandmother. Each week she bought a live carp to be made into gefilte fish for Sabbath supper. They carried it home in a heavy white paper bag filled with water. Timmins, Frank ran into his first experience with anti-Semitism. A group of bullies tormented him at school, beating him up and calling him Fish, an insult suggesting that he smelled. it was humiliating to be punched and taunted because he was Jewish. During this painful time he pulled back from his family's religious beliefs.Many artists use autobiographical images to work through their conflicts. For Gehry, the shape of a fish repeated over and over in his designs represents his mixed feelings. On one hand, the fish echoes the anti-Semitic slurs of his childhood. On the other, it symbolizes the comforting religious rituals observed by his grandmother. The giant fish sculptures elevate memory into art

my architect

My architect is about Louis Kahn's life after he became rich and famous. After he had died they started looking around for his family. Everyone had known about each other except for his son that had went M.I.A for a while. The son had gone around talking to his fathers side of the family and friends. He found out about his family and his father Louis Khans architecture.

United Nations Headquarters

The United Nations Headquarters is a building in New York City that has served as the headquarters of the United Nations since its completion in 1950. It is located in the Turtle Bay neighborhood, on the east side of Midtown Manhattan, overlooking the East River. Though it is in New York City, the land occupied by the United Nations Headquarters is considered international territory and its borders are First Avenue on west, East 42nd Street on south side , East 48th Street north and the East River. The FDR Drive passes underneath the Conference Building.

chrysler building

The Chrysler building was made by William Van Alin on september 19, 1928 and located on 42 and lexington. The building was built with 77 floors. It brngs many tourist a day.

ezra stoller

EZRA STOLLER was a photographer who was Born in Chicago on May 16, 1915, Stoller earned a bachelors degree in 1938 from the Schoo lof Allied Arts at New York University. He taught photography at the Army Signal Corps Photo Center in New York City. Two decades later, Stoller founded Esto Photographics, the agency that has become one of the profession’s best known and most respected houses of photography.Ezra Stoller received the AIA Gold Medal for Photography in 1961. he was this award’s first winner. He photographed famous landmarks around New York City.

Flat iron building

The Flat Iron building was built in 1906 by h.g.wells and is 285 feet high with 22 floors and is located on 26th street and 5th ave. The flat iron building is triangle (looks like cheese cake). I'm amazed how someone could come up with a design like that.

metropolitan life insurance tower

The tower was built by Napolean Lebrun and his sons. The building is 700 feet tall and has 50 floors. The building was made first with steel but was changed to marble and limestone. The building is rectangular, tall, and wide.

I Am ........

I'm in summer school because i failed english i failed to do my homework my name is luis rivera and i'ma do my best and have fum in dis class so i can move on to da next grade i'm lookin forward to dis experience i hope we all have fun !

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LP Creations

The eiffel tower was a tower created by Gustave eiffel in france it was made of steel and they made an elevator for it when they first made it the elevator didn't work and they fixed it . the skeletal construction was a structure they made to hold the buildings up.they also had international style which meant that different skyscrapers had different styles to represent them.skyscrapers where made for landmarks ,tours and promotional reasons ,for symbolism of that country and also tosave space