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Furniture Designs
Gehry Residence
Loyola Law School
Residences 1
Residences 2
Fish and Snake Lamps
Chiat/Day Building
Vitra International Headquarters
Walt Disney Concert Hall
Vitra
Fish Sculpture
Lewis Residence
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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VONTZ CENTER FOR MOLECULAR STUDIES,
UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI

Cincinnati 1993–99

Gehry's laboratory building provides an animated welcome at the main entrance to the campus for the University of Cincinnati Medical Center. Although the brick cladding (unusual in Gehry's work) is a link to the staid university buildings nearby, the tilting and bulging forms demonstrate the architect's ability to coax unexpected results from even the most conservative materials. The sense of a building in constant movement is magnified by the roofline's angled planes and the pronounced multistory windows that provide views of the activity inside. State-of-the-art labs are organized along the building's north-south axis; offices occupy the smaller east-west axis. At the center of the cruciform plan, large skylights flood the central atrium, which includes meeting areas for staff.