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Loyola Law School
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Fish and Snake Lamps
Chiat/Day Building
Vitra International Headquarters
Walt Disney Concert Hall
Vitra
Fish Sculpture
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Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum
EMR Communications and Technology Center
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
Nationale-Nederlanden Building
Vontz Center for Molecular Studies
Der Neue Zollhof
Experience Music Project
DG Bank Building
Ustra Office Building
Conde Nast Cafeteria
Telluride Residence
Performing Arts Center at Bard College
Peter B. Lewis Building
Guggenheim Museum New York
Hotel at Marques de Riscal
Ray and Maria Stata Center
Maggie's Centre Dundee
Millennium Park Music Pavilion and Great Lawn
New York Times Headquarters
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MAGGIE'S CENTRE DUNDEE
Dundee, Scotland 1999–

Gehry's first building in the United Kingdom is a modest cancer care center on the grounds of Ninewells Hospital. It is named for the architect's close friend the late Maggie Keswick Jencks, who founded a patient-support program (whose first center is in Edinburgh). The center is a facility where cancer patients from the nearby hospital, as well as their friends and families, can meet to share experiences and to obtain information for services that complement medical treatment.

Gehry has designed a stimulating and uplifting building—a "friendly little clubhouse," as he calls it—for the quiet site overlooking an estuary. The small tower that dominates the project was inspired by lighthouses. In its domestic scale and spaces, the building is ideally suited to the caregiving activities within.