Arles is enriched with a Gehry tower, with an artistic campus
June 26, 2021 by archyde
Known for its Roman arenas, the city of Arles was enriched on Saturday with a new monument: a tower with metallic reflections 56 meters high designed by architect Frank Gehry, beacon of the vast creative campus of the Luma Foundation of the Swiss patron Maja Hoffmann.
Designer of the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao coated with titanium or the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, Frank Gehry, 92, wrapped 11,000 stainless steel panels around this tower surrounded at its base by a vast glass rotunda, the ‘drum’. It houses contemporary art exhibitions, a library, offices …