The Experience Music Project, architecture icon Frank Gehry's latest building, will open later this week.
If architecture is frozen music, then Frank Gehry faced an interesting designchallenge - a building to house an interactive rock museum in Seattle. TheExperience Music Project will open later this week. Popular as well as "intellectuallyrespectable", Gehry's unique designs have placed architecture "backin public discussion again." Other prominent architects have praised Gehry'swork and California architects voted him the Architect of the Year in 1981.Time Magazine calls him "one of the coolest guys in the world."
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