22 agosto 2005
FOG: Inland Steel Building
Gehry likes it, helps buy it
A trip in the '50s to Chicago, gossip at a dinner gala and Canadian roots lead to the famed architect's ownership stake in the Inland Steel Building
By Blair Kamin
Tribune architecture critic
Published August 20, 2005
Celebrated architect Frank Gehry admired Chicago's revolutionary Inland Steel Building and its glistening stainless steel exterior when he was a "kid" looking at great buildings in the 1950s. Now Gehry owns the building after an unlikely chain of events that began at the opening of Millennium Park and continued at the Southern California home of billionaire Chicago philanthropist Cindy Pritzker. It culminated Thursday when a group of investors that includes Gehry purchased the 19-story landmark, now known by its address of 30 W. Monroe St. The deal shows how far-reaching the celebrity of the Los Angeles architect has become after the artistic triumphs of his own metal-clad but far more curvaceous buildings. Those include the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles and the Jay Pritzker Pavilion at Millennium Park. Yet it also adds to the luster of Inland Steel. "It's been a real inspiration to me--the metal and stuff," the 76-year-old Gehry said of the Inland Steel Building in a telephone interview from his Los Angeles office. "It was one of the first things that turned me on to that."
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Gehry likes it, helps buy itA trip in the '50s to Chicago, gossip at a dinner gala and Canadian roots lead to the famed architect's ownership stake in the Inland Steel Building
By Blair Kamin
Tribune architecture critic
Published August 20, 2005
Celebrated architect Frank Gehry admired Chicago's revolutionary Inland Steel Building and its glistening stainless steel exterior when he was a "kid" looking at great buildings in the 1950s. Now Gehry owns the building after an unlikely chain of events that began at the opening of Millennium Park and continued at the Southern California home of billionaire Chicago philanthropist Cindy Pritzker. It culminated Thursday when a group of investors that includes Gehry purchased the 19-story landmark, now known by its address of 30 W. Monroe St. The deal shows how far-reaching the celebrity of the Los Angeles architect has become after the artistic triumphs of his own metal-clad but far more curvaceous buildings. Those include the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles and the Jay Pritzker Pavilion at Millennium Park. Yet it also adds to the luster of Inland Steel. "It's been a real inspiration to me--the metal and stuff," the 76-year-old Gehry said of the Inland Steel Building in a telephone interview from his Los Angeles office. "It was one of the first things that turned me on to that."
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