Frank Gehry, famed architect behind UC's Vontz Center, has died

The legendary architect behind some of the world's most interesting buildings has died. Frank Gehry is best known for creations such as the Guggenheim Museum in Spain and the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles.

Gehry also left his mark on Cincinnati. He designed the Vontz Center for Molecular Studies on the University of Cincinnati's medical campus. It opened in 1999, with it's claim to fame being that the building has no 90-degree corners and few vertical or horizontal lines.

On its website, the Guggenheim writes of the Vontz 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 sens