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US architect Frank Gehry finishes first Australian building
Architect Frank Gehry's undulating addition to Sydney's skyline is complete, writes Dan Rule.
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The first Australian building to be designed by legendary American architect Frank Gehry has reached completion in Sydney.
The striking formal cues and undulating sculptural surfaces of the University of Technology Sydney's Dr Chau Chak Wing Building cut an utterly unique figure in the Sydney landscape.
Typical of Gehry's work, the building skirts a line between the architectural, artistic and organic, simultaneously resembling a mountainside, a sculpture and a dynamic modern structure.
It comes as no surprise that the building, which is the key piece in the university's $1 billion city campus master plan and took five years to complete, was conceived in an unconventional manner.
Gehry reportedly designed the structure from the inside out, meaning that its uneven sandstone brick surfaces came as a reaction to the activities that will take place within the business school building.
Gehry will attend the official opening in February.