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Frank Gehry Opens ‘Melting’ Las Vegas Clinic

Wednesday, May 26th, 2010

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When you see the words ‘clinic’ and ‘Las Vegas’ appearing the same sentence you’d be forgiven for thinking another gambling addiction clinic has opened for business.

Instead, we have the marvellously eccentric new Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health by design’s ’starchitect’, Frank Gehry. Love it or hate it [we love it] the new clinic will certainly stop people in the street, if only to help them make sure that the building isn’t melting.

It’s already dividing critics between those who believe it’s a fantastically innovative and jaw-dropping piece of design to those who believe it’s hopelessly derivative of earlier work and those who believe Gehry = Garish.

See what the LA Times reviewer said after the jump.

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