Major Exhibition on Frank Gehry Opens at 21_21 DESIGN SIGHT



  • Architect Frank Gehry “I Have an Idea” runs October 16, 2015 through February 7, 2016 at 21_21 DESIGN SIGHT, Tokyo.

  • This autumn, Tokyo’s 21_21 DESIGN SIGHT museum is presenting a major exhibition on Frank Gehry’s stunning, yet often controversial, ideas of architecture.
  • The person of Frank Gehry, his inspiration, design processes, craftsmanship, and struggles – all will be explored in this unmissable exhibition.
  • Ontario-born Frank Gehry has been called ‘the most important architect of our time’ by Vanity Fair.
  • A stupid idea, but you like it.


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Instagram users offer a preview of LA’s Broad Museum



  • It will house over 200,000 pieces of postwar and contemporary art from the collections of Eli and Edythe Broad, who also backed the Zaha Hadid-designed Edythe and Eli Broad Art Museum in Michigan, which opened in 2012.
  • Instagram users and officials from the Broad have been posting images of the building, including glimpses of the interior, as it readies to open.
  • The images offer a preview of the structure designed by the New York architecture firm, well ahead of the publication of official photography.
  • Frank Gehry’s new headquarters for Facebook debuted on Instagram, with visitors posting images during the building’s preview before pictures were issued for publication.
  • The building will also become the new home for the Broad Foundation, which is currently based in Santa Monica.


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