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30JAN 2012

Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Brain / Frank Owen Gehry

Posted in Architecture - Healthcare by Frank Owen Gehry

In architecture I love minimal, efficient, and white cubes that let outside light generously pour in and its structure does not get in the way of its function.

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I also love modern sculpture and modern roller coasters. Architect, product designer, Frank Gehry for sure gets my divided attention.

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Here’s his latest structure, the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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Groundbreaking in 2007, open for patient care in 2009 and completed in 2010. Gehry agreed to design the building only after discovering he shared a bond with its founder, Larry Ruvo.

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Both men suffered personal losses to degenerative brain diseases.

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Ruvo lost his father to Alzheimer’s disease and Gehry’s analyst’s wife succumbed to Huntington’s disease.

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The $100 million complex comprises two wings connected by an open courtyard: a dedicated research center, located at the northern end of the building, and a ‘for-hire’ event space, dubbed the Life Activity Center, located at the southern end. Architecturally, the two spaces are dramatically different and yet together they form a cohesive whole.

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A four-story clinic, houses medical offices, patient rooms and research space, is rational, conventional, and rectilinear in geometry.

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By contrast, the Life Activity Center ( above photo ) is a soaring sculptural volume tucked beneath a signature Gehry stainless steel roof. Designed as an event space, proceeds fund the center’s research.

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The Center operates as an outpatient treatment and research facility and includes 13 examination rooms, offices for health care practitioners and researchers, a “Museum of the Mind,” and a community auditorium.

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The Center also serves as the headquarters for Keep Memory Alive Foundation (owner of the building), the Las Vegas Alzheimer’s Association and the Las Vegas Parkinson’s Disease Association..

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