8150 sunset boulevard frank gehry biography
Frank gehry architecture!
Renowned architect Frank Gehry has unveiled new designs for the 8150 Sunset project, the controversial retail-residential complex that has survived all its legal challenges and appears ready to start construction soon.
8150 sunset boulevard frank gehry biography
Gehry’s new designs seem to appear like glass blocks stacked on to of one another. This replaces the previous whimsical version with buildings of different heights and styles.
“I was fascinated with the frameless glass aesthetic.
With this technology, I wanted to make the buildings look like glass blocks,” Gehry said in a statement. “This is a building system that has not much been used in building residential towers. It seemed that we could make a crystalline sculpture out of the buildings so that when it all went together, it had a unity and simplicity about it.”
Located on the southwest corner of Crescent Heights and Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, just a few feet over the West Hollywood border, the complex will provide 203 residential u