Cleveland Clinic's Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health (Las Vegas, NV)
(Reader Contribution to 10 Weirdest and Uniquely Shaped Buildings)
Frank Gehry's design splits the complex into a pair of separate and essentially freestanding wings. A four-story structure to the north, which holds medical offices, patient rooms and research space, is relatively straightforward, a collection of stacked boxes in white stucco and glass.
To the south, across an open-air courtyard, is a soaring, single-room event space beneath a wildly undulating stainless-steel roof. This is among the most impressive interior spaces that the architect's firm, Gehry Partners, has produced since Disney Hall opened in 2003. Its appeal will help underwrite the mission of the Ruvo Center, since the organization plans to rent it out nearly every weekend to outside groups.
The two sides of the Ruvo Center stand in clear opposition to each other. It's tempting to assume that they represent the classic left-brain, right-brain dichotomy: the office wing is rational and contained, the auditorium free-flowing and fantastical. One side is a written score, the other an improvisation.
This gap also seems to suggest the divided loyalties of architects, who have to pay equal attention in their work to practicality and creativity, order and desire. Gehry, in particular, makes use of an approach to design that shifts between the analytical and the fully intuitive.
sent by John Moscatelli
6/5/2012
source: http://www.astheticsense.com/view/87584/Architecture_review___Frank_Gehrys_Cleveland_Clinic_Lou_Ruvo_Center_for_Brain_Health_in_Las_Vegas
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6/5/2012
source: http://www.astheticsense.com/view/87584/Architecture_review___Frank_Gehrys_Cleveland_Clinic_Lou_Ruvo_Center_for_Brain_Health_in_Las_Vegas
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