LAS VEGAS (FOX5) — Frank Gehry, the world-renowned architect who passed away Friday, was the architect behind one of Las Vegas’s most unique buildings.
Gehry was also known to the Las Vegas community as the mind behind the Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health.
According to the Keep Memory Alive Event Center website, the building was designed to symbolize hope.
According to the website the building took 65,000 hours of engineering, 145,000 shop drawing sheets, 30,000 steel bolts and 18,000 stainless steel shingles.
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Gehry died Friday in his home in Santa Monica after a brief respiratory illness, said Meaghan Lloyd, chief of staff at Gehry Partners LLP in a statement to the Associated Press.
Gehry’s fascination with modern pop art led to the creation of some of the most striking buildings ever constructed. Among his many masterpieces are the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain; The Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles and Berlin’s DZ Bank Building.
He also designed an expansion of Facebook’s Northern California headquarters at the insistence of the company’s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg.
Gehry was awarded every major prize architecture has to offer, including the field’s top honor, the Pritzker Prize, for what has been described as “refreshingly original and totally American” work.
Other honors include the Royal Institute of British Architects gold medal, the Americans for the Arts lifetime achievement award, and his native country’s highest honor, the Companion of the Order of Canada.
The Associated Press contributed to this article.
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