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December 16, 2010
Frank Gehry has designed the proposed UTS business school building in Sydney to be known as the Dr Chau Chak Wing Building. His brief was to transform a former industrial site at Ultimo---wedged between the ABC Ultimo Centre and the Powerhouse Museum--- into a building of international repute.
This will probably be Gehry's only building in Australia. This is the view of the building as it faces the street:
This is in the deconstructive style---deconstructing modernism. It makes a welcome change from most of the banal built environment ----the uninspiring office buildings, tract houses in suburbia, the McMansions, the strip malls, the shopping malls. Rarely do we see great architecture. So UTS needs to be applauded for being so adventurous and for breaking away from the brutalist UTS high rise tower.
Frank Gehry, Dancing House, Prague
Gehry's work is in the tradition of art and architecture transform the identity of a city and its people---- the Parthenon effect, the Chartres Cathedral effect, the Notre Dame effect.
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