Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health in Las Vegas by Frank Gehry

Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health in Las Vegas by Frank Gehry in architecture Category

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.

Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health in Las Vegas by Frank Gehry in architecture Category

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.

AA on 05.25.2010 at 13:55 PM

Am I the only one who thinks that after seeing building you might feel like having a disease?

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Jonathen on 05.25.2010 at 14:04 PM

This is fantastic.

Scott Corgan on 05.25.2010 at 15:22 PM

That is a gorgeous building! I wish we could update all buildings so they didn’t look like 1988.

mike on 05.25.2010 at 16:49 PM

i always wondered what a fart looked like from the inside.

thanks, frank!

tom on 05.25.2010 at 18:14 PM

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.

skeez on 05.26.2010 at 21:28 PM

hahahaha! im so amused by this. i’m always critical of gehry, but his has to be one of his worst.

Dedo Felix on 05.27.2010 at 08:44 AM

Frank is rich, famous, succesful…and stuck in a design rut…

StephBr on 06.01.2010 at 02:40 AM

I think Gehry created a Photoshop Action.
Open photo of a building, run Gehry action, present to client and try not to laugh.

Allison on 02.15.2011 at 14:39 PM

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.