FRANK GEHRY GETS RIBA GOLD MEDAL AND REM KOOLHAAS GETS THE PRITZKER PRIZE. BOSTON LOSES ITS ARCHITECTURAL DIRECTION.Frank Gehry Frank Owen Gehry, CC (born Ephraim Owen Goldberg, February 28, 1929) is a Pritzker Prize winning architect based in Los Angeles, California. His buildings, including his private residence, have become tourist attractions. has been awarded this years's RIBA RIBA Royal Institute of British Architects Gold Medal for Architecture. Gehry's reputation has steadily grown through a series of challenging projects that push the boundaries of form and materials. Pictured here is a model of the proposed new Guggenheim Museum in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , a successor to Gehry's Guggenheim in Bilbao. Another major architectural gong was awarded recently; Rem Koolhaas is the latest recipient of the Pritzker Prize. |
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