One of the highlights of my last trip to Vegas was an architectural tour of some of the new buildings. By chance, I got to visit the newly opened Frank Gehry designed Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health just a day after the center opened to the public, so everything looked shiny and polished.
Gehry may be an unconventional choice for a scientific building, but his organic shapes and now iconic metal sheets seemed appropriate for a facility dedicated to researching brain diseases in all it's complexities. I'm thinking of not only the brain, but the spinal cord, nerves, axons and dendrites.
This is Gehry's first building in Vegas, and according to this LA Times piece, a personal connection with Huntington's Disease sealed the deal.
My photos were also featured in Designboom's coverage of the facility.
I also visited City Center on the strip, and was most impressed the Daniel Libeskind's Crystals mall. I was a little unnerved by all the sharp edges in his Jewish Contemporary Museum in SF, but the angular forms fit much better in this high end retail space.
I also visited City Center on the strip, and was most impressed the Daniel Libeskind's Crystals mall. I was a little unnerved by all the sharp edges in his Jewish Contemporary Museum in SF, but the angular forms fit much better in this high end retail space.
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