Last Friday Frank Gehry unveiled the design for his first ever Australian building to be built at UTS. He has nicknamed it the 'Treehouse'. He said that his vision for the building was embedded in the streetscape. Its power would pulsate through the crowded inner city, offering people passing by ''fascinating vignettes''. The folds of the facade that are a signature of his are inspired by folds in the sculptures of Michelangelo and da Vinci. The other facade, a collection of angled sheets of glass, presents a fractured view of the urban sandstone and brick existing on the site.
Despite not being his biggest fan, I am very excited about having a Gehry in Sydney, and am looking forward to seeing how the build and the reactions to the building unfold!
$150m Total value
16,000 Total floor area in square metres across 11 floors
2012 Construction starts, to be completed by 2014 academic year
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