
Remembering Architect Frank Gehry
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Frank Gehry, who designed some of most imaginative buildings ever constructed, has died. He was 96.
Among his many masterpieces are the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain; The Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles; Berlin’s DZ Bank Building; and the Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Chicago.
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Remembering Architect Frank Gehry
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Among his many masterpieces are the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain; The Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles; Berlin’s DZ Bank Building; and the Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Chicago.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship>> man who made his mark on architecture around the world, including in Chicago, has died.
Frank Geary is famous for his Disney concert hall in Los Angeles and the Louisville Foundation in Paris.
Among other bold designs here in Chicago, Gehry designed the Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park.
Here he is with the late Elizabeth bracket on Chicago tonight talking about that structure.
I think many people's at the trial as the architects.
I've talked real estate, just love the trellis that was so different.
And so unique.
>> But some people said the curls, which is sort of classic Frank Gehry.
This was, you know, now we have a Frank Gehry kind of statement.
Is that what you meant to >> Well, you know, all of us have a signature of some kind that we apply mean I can't escape myself really.
>> The >> sound system.
The show itself requires a certain amount of of curvature to distribute the sound because if you if you make it comebacks, it focuses the south.
So it's gonna.
Do this to distribute the sound infinitely.
circular shapes are used in concert halls and these reflectors.
And I just took them and pull them out over the palace.
As far as we needed to get the sound distributed out as far into the audience as we could.
And then all I did is.
Flip them up.
And that's the fluff, if you will, live.
The last flip.
>> But I think it's in that blast flipped the ones that when people look at it and say that's not Chicago, it Chicago's they are strong and linear and straight and and what's going to happen when when the when things are a lot alike making lakefront over the years I see tracks, I've seen him for years.
>> I think they're shaped
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