Frank Gehry, RIP

The most valuable design project of the Los Angeles architect's career was the one where he finally said: Sorry, it can't be done.

Los Angeles architect Frank Gehry has died at age 96.

He got so fashionable after his Bilbao Guggenheim museum opened in the 1997 that people started paying him to create buildings that looked like crumpled-up pieces of paper from the bottom of his wastepaper basket.

At first glance, his Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health in Las Vegas (above) seems like a cruel joke on patients: imagine having something go wrong with your brain and then your ambulance pulls up at this nightmare structure.

However, that’s actually the backside of the Cleveland Clinic’s building. Patients are dumped off at the less brain-damaging front side. This part in back is rented out for corporate events and the like, such as a Hillary vs. Bernie debate in 2016.

In general, Gehry wasn’t as cruel or crazy as his designs make him look.

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