I stalk an Architect

The Ray and Maria Stata Center - Cambridge, Massachusetts, originally uploaded by: Shumon Huque
The Ray and Maria Stata Center, designed by Frank Gehry, is a rambling collage of odds and ends that now houses three MIT departments: the Computer Sciences and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems, and the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy.

Experience Music Project - Seattle, Washington, originally uploaded by: Allison Wonderland
In 1969 a screaming, reverberating rendition of the Star Spangled Banner by Jimi Hendrix seemed to herald an end to innocence. His resonant lyric “Are you experienced?” is now recalled in the name of software billionaire Paul G. Allen’s Experience Music Project. Hendrix would have appreciated the design approach to Seattle’s new museum of pop music.

Guggenheim Museum - Bilbao, Spain, originally uploaded by: ms vie
The new Guggenheim Museum Bilbao by Frank Gehry was probably the most often mentioned new building of 1998 and 1999 in architecture circles. The composition continues a curvaceous, free-form sculptural style that has become a Gehry signature. The abstract, free-form components of this style were present in the early Gehry House, and a similarly sleek curvaceous cladding was displayed in the sculptural fish of the Fishdance Restaurant.

Walt Disney Concert Hall - Los Angeles, CA, originally uploaded by: Sheldon Branford
Walt Disney Concert Hall shine in quick flashes glimpsed through nondescript high-rises, throwing fortuitous reflections among the shadows. The taller forms stretch up and out toward the city, while the lower forms bend down toward passersby.

Frank Gehry, originally uploaded by: photoman4you. His buildings, including his private residence, have become tourist attractions. His best known works include the titanium-covered Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, Walt Disney Concert Hall in downtown Los Angeles, Dancing House in Prague, Czech Republic, and his private residence in Santa Monica, California, which jump-started his career, lifting it from the status of “paper architecture”, a phenomenon which many famous architects have experienced in their formative decades through experimentation almost exclusively on paper before receiving their first major commission in later years.

In Hong Kong, there are beautiful tall buildings that everytime I look at them, the more I feel fascinated with the city. I can’t even imagine HK without skyscrapers. And because I love modernism and designs, I’ve searched my best friend Flickah and found Frank Gehry’s works which is full of inspiration and wonder, am I only dreaming? What I like about him is his power of imagination and his courage to concrete it to reality. Unbelievable.

Album: Eye To The Telescope | Song: Suddenly I See
Artist: KT Tunstall - “KT” is a Scottish singer-songwriter from Fife. Her mother is of partial Chinese descent, and her father Irish. She performed “Black Horse & the Cherry Tree” and was voted as the most popular performer from the entire show. Read More.

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