Given the success of the Guggenheim in Bilbao, Gehry is entitled to a bit of failure. Enter the Experience Music Project, a 140,000-sq.-ft. (13,000 sq m) museum in Seattle devoted to rock music. It thrusts and curves in a similar way to his work in Bilbao, but it lacks any sense of cohesion. The aluminum-and-steel exterior could have been eye-catching. But his decision to color it shades of fuchsia, fire-truck red and powder blue results in a loud mess. It’s no wonder critics have said it reminds them of feuding blobs or open-heart surgery.
15 Buildings That Don’t Look Like Buildings
Pyongyang’s Ryugyong Hotel resembles a giant ballistic missile. As the so-called “Hotel of Doom” prepares to open in 2013, TIME looks at 15 buildings that don’t look like buildings
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15 Buildings That Don't Look like Buildings
- Ryugyong Hotel
- Indira Gandhi Planetarium
- National Fisheries Development Board Building
- Chang Building
- Aldar Properties Headquarters
- Longaberger Basket Company Home Office
- Tianzi Hotel
- National Library of Belarus
- Flame Towers
- Lotus Temple
- Cross # Towers
- Fang Yuan Building
- Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
- The Experience Music Project
- London Aquatics Centre