Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health in Las Vegas by Frank Gehry
I don’t think I’ve ever said “I want to go to there” about a hospital, so I think this is a first. Check out these great photos courtesy of World Architecture News (WAN) of Frank Gehry’s newest project, the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health. My brain sure is healthy enough to know that this is an incredible building. The building officially opened on Friday.
The building is made up of two wings joined with a courtyard: the dramatic steel wing being the Life Activity Center and the simpler, subtle four-story clinic section where patient rooms and research space is located. The Life Activity Wing looks like someone took a steel building and crumpled it up in their hand like a piece of paper.
According to WAN, Gehry decided to design the building because he, like founder Larry Ruvo, has been affected by degenerative brain diseases. Ruvo’s father had Alzheimer’s and Gehry’s analyst’s wife had Huntington’s disease. Therefore, this building is like a tribute to those they lost, and also a beacon of hope for finding treatments or cures for these unfortunate ailments.
Photos by Wade Zimmerman.
Am I the only one who thinks that after seeing building you might feel like having a disease?
This is fantastic.
That is a gorgeous building! I wish we could update all buildings so they didn’t look like 1988.
i always wondered what a fart looked like from the inside.
thanks, frank!
This is an example of an architect getting lazy with the progression of his work. I hope I never have to look at that piece of trash with my natural eyes.
hahahaha! im so amused by this. i’m always critical of gehry, but his has to be one of his worst.
Frank is rich, famous, succesful…and stuck in a design rut…
I think Gehry created a Photoshop Action.
Open photo of a building, run Gehry action, present to client and try not to laugh.
Malignant tumors are usually such a private affliction. Gehry has succeeded in nothing less than giving the world aggressive cancer here. Please… somebody do a lumpectomy…lot’s of anesthetic.