Frank Gehry's Latest Mind-Bending Structure

Reviews have been mixed regarding Frank Gehry’s latest project, but one thing is certain, you either love it or hate it.

Gehry agreed to design the $100-million Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center in Las Vegas on one condition - that Huntington was added to the list of diseases the new brain health clinic would study and treat (Gehry’s good friend saw several loved one suffer from the illness).

The design splits the complex into a pair of separate wings that sit in opposition to one another (one might assume the classic left-brain, right-brain metaphor). The architecture seems to support that assumption as the office wing is rational and contained, and the auditorium free-flowing.

As Christopher Hawthorne for the LA Times explains, “The unobstructed, informal movement that the design promotes from one wing to another suggests the way we use our brains every day, flowing from left-brain to right-brain thinking and back again without noticing the difference.”

So what do you think, love it or hate it?

photo credit: (Isaac Brekken, For The Times / May 16, 2010)
via archdaily, la times

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Comment by Will Dickey on June 1, 2010 at 12:11am: truly mind absorbing

Comment by sAm on May 26, 2010 at 11:40am: Twisted!

Comment by Kyle Higgins on May 26, 2010 at 7:52am: Cleveland Sucks lol. Love Frank G

Comment by Martin on May 26, 2010 at 12:16am: Personally, I love it - based purely on that photograph.

I'd be interested to know what the clinic's patients think of it. Would they find it reassuringly quirky, or rather intimidating?

Comment by Eugene on May 25, 2010 at 3:37pm: @DarNamell - Thanks for sharing, DarNamell!

Comment by DarNamell on May 25, 2010 at 3:22pm: I drive by this building every couple of weeks and, granted, nothing else looks like it. That said, some of the newer buildings in the area are much bolder than your standard commercial area so while nothing compares to the Ruvo Center, the blocks surrounding it are made up of some bold architectural choices so it's a nice fit in what is a major attempt at urban renewal in the downtown Vegas area.

Comment by Visnja V on May 25, 2010 at 11:36am: Chaos is a friend of mine ;)