About the Image(s)

iPhone 15 Pro, 6.8mm, 1/8000sec, ISO 80. Post processing: monochrome conversion with NIK Silver Pro 3, some dodging of lower bright wall.

The building was designed by Canadian American Architect Frank Gehry. It was inaugurated in 1997. The unusual shape was only made possible by the fact that in the last thirty years or so architecture has embraced 3D design software originally developed to build airplanes. This makes it possible to design curved surfaces and calculate stresses and loads in non-traditional structures. Apart from that, Gehry’s imagination and the use of titanium as structural as well as exterior cladding material created a building that to me seems like a gigantic sculpture. I chose to convert the original to black&white to emphasize the graphical aspect of the building.