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Share A view of the twisting tower clad in reflective aluminum tiles housing the Luma Foundation, designed by Canadian-American architect Frank Gehry. AFP Frank Gehry’s tower of the future opens in World Heritage Arles Wed, 30 June 2021 Rising high beyond an ancient Roman arena in Arles, a tall, twisted tower created by Frank Gehry shimmers in the sun, the latest futuristic addition to this southern French city known for its World Heritage sites. The tower, which opens to the public on Saturday, is the flagship attraction of a new “creative campus” conceived by the Swiss Luma arts found...

To revist this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. Not unlike the sudden appearance of the cicada, a buzzing critical mass of art-world players burst out of hibernation last Saturday night in the South of France, making for one of the first major international, in-person art happenings since pandemic restrictions started to ease. They surfaced at the behest of Swiss philanthropist Maja Hoffmann, an heir to the Hoffmann-La Roche pharmaceuticals billions, to celebrate the completion of Luma Arles, her 27-acre creative campus in the city of Arles. The gestation really did take a...

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 ‘dr...

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Futuristic Gehry tower opens in World Heritage Arles