Plans for a new international concert hall in Wimbledon are still moving forward, following the death of the project's lead architect, Frank Gehry, who passed away last month at 96. The scheme, first revealed in 2019, carries a certain weight. Not just because...
Frank Gehry, the Canadian-American architect who spent more than half a century bullying gravity into improbable shapes and coaxing cities into believing in spectacle again, has died aged 96. His passing closes a chapter on a career that took the medium of sculpture...
It takes a long time to reawaken a slumbering giant, forty years in the case of the Battersea Power Station. And remaking the giant's bed, all 42 acres of redundant urban gash space, a substantial chunk of urban regeneration in the heart of London, is a task that will...
I had never experienced a Frank Gehry up-close. Never stood slack-jawed, gawping at the gymnastic splendours that the photographs in the glossies promise. I had actually seen Frank Gehry speak once, at a talk in the Neue Staatsgalerie in Berlin, where Mies’s pure...
Bernard Arnault's Louis Vuitton Foundation will open its doors to the public on Monday, 27 October 2014. The building, designed by architect Frank Gehry, will become a new location in Paris for contemporary French and international artistic creation.The Foundation...
Los Angeles, 2 March 2026: By the time the last shuttle pulled away from Santa Monica Airport on Sunday evening, most dealers stopped pretending to be skittish. The seventh edition of Frieze Los Angeles closed with what galleries are calling a strong result,...
Newly disclosed correspondence shows that convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein contacted a former French government minister in an apparent attempt to assist with arrangements for the 2019 Pritzker Architecture Prize ceremony. In a September 2018 email to...
Here's a reminder of the art-world figures who died in 2025. Frank Gehry, Martin Parr, Joel Shapiro, David Lynch, Koyo Kouoh and Alan Yentob were among those who died in 2025. David Lynch: Influential Director And Artist David Lynch was not only an Oscar-nominated...
Art Basel Miami Beach 2025 wrapped up its edition with a confident bravado not seen for many years. When the machinery runs smoothly and the buyers turn out in force, it is an unbeatable combo. This was the second edition under Bridget Finn's direction, and you could...