Photo: Adrian Taylor/ Starwood Hotels; hotelchatter.com
Frank Gehry, a world-renowned architect, created the beautifully sculpted Hotel Marquis de Riscal shown above. Gehry's design employs rhythm in an otherwise stiff-like appearance of titanium sheets. He gives a whole new meaning to form: the curves and bends in the roof contrast the rigid structure of the building hidden underneath. There is a play on architectural styles here between the modernity of the actual building and the deconstructive form of the roof. At first glance, a viewer may only see a pile of folded metal sheets stacked on top of each other. After examining and digesting its form, one can find unity in the interlocking pattern of the folds. It now looks like several layers of ribbon are being held together at the peak, naturally descending, allowing gravity to command it's form. The overflowing structure of the roof seems to reach out of the building, as if the origin of this structure starts from the center, where it is unified, and reaches out like giant arms protecting the inner core. Gehry has created layers upon layers of shapes and lines, allowing the eye to travel from the center to the outer edges of any one of the many curvilinear "ribbons". Frank Gehry celebrates the diversity of architecture and design through his thought-provoking designs- Hotel Marquis de Riscal just being one of many.
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