Ifirst saw a Frank Gehry structure in Chicago’s Millennium Centre — a surreal stainless steel open air theatre, with proscenium panels billowing out like sails of a ship. The Jay Pritzker Pavilion stands out for its fluidity and abstract metal shapes that resonate with the power of live music. For an architect from Chandigarh, the city of Le Corbusier’s orthogonal geometry and cuboid concrete and brick forms, the sight of gleaming free-flowing forms was an architectural epiphany.

Frank Owen Gehry passed away on December 5 at the age of 96, leaving behind a legacy of iconoclastic architecture. Many tributes hailed him as the “most important architect of our age”. After Frank Lloyd Wright, his name is associated most with American architecture.

The building that he will be really

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