I think I may have somehow become a Frank Gehry fan. I'd never really liked his buildings. While the Guggenheim Bilbao is supposed to be a masterpiece, I always thought it looks like a hunk of broken mess. I wasn't surprised to see in an exhibit that Gehry likes to do his sketches not with pencil on paper, but with wadded up pieces of paper. One man's trash is another man's Architecturally Significant Building.
But then I had to admit that the Walt Disney Hall really is spectacular.
And then he did the residential tower in Manhattan, which is supremely and surprisingly elegant.
And the sneak peaks we're getting of his giant new Facebook headquarters are...well...really cool.
I don't know if Gehry's getting older or I am. Maybe both.
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