Across Seven Seas and Thirteen Rivers

Kolkata Frank Gehry's Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health, Las Vegas was formally opened on May 21, 2010. And, it was featured in World Architecture News (WAN), May 27, 2010 issue. WAN editorial calls it Gehry's stunning new project, and, among others, states that " the building has received critical praise from the Los Angeles Times architecture critic, Christopher Hawthorne, as having the most impressive Gehry-designed interior space since the architect’s Disney Concert Hall in 2003." You may check out the WAN editorial and the pictures of the building at: http://bit.ly/aNn287 . The building houses a leading research center for degenerative brain diseases. The main facade seems to reflect, as one viewer puts it, a crushed brain thrown in a waste bin of crushed paper cut outs. The other facade is however disciplined in a conventional way. Altogether 25 viewers have commented upon this project at WAN in the past few hours since publication. Sadly, most...