Built in 2002, the Peter B Lewis Building is housing the Weatherhead School of Management. Named in honor of lead donor Peter B. Lewis, chairman of the Progressive Corporation, and designed by world-renowned architect Frank Gehry, the building is the most advanced management school facility in the world and reflects Weatherhead’s international reputation for innovative management education. The building in the Case Western Reserve campus is a $62 million building, which Mr. Lewis donated $37 million, with 152,000 sq ft of space.

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The reason why Paul Allen, the co-founder of Microsoft, asks Frank Gehry to design Experience Music Project is he wants something swoopy. The building is dedicated to the memory of the Seattle-born rock musician, giving special emphasis on music-related traditions of Pacific North West. Paul Allen reminisce Jimi Hendrix, one of American music’s most creative and influential artists, and he hopes that the EMP will offer inspirational experiences to its visitors. The structure itself resembles many of Frank Gehry’s other projects in its sheet-metal construction, such as Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Walt Disney Concert Hall and Gehry Tower.

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Peter Arnell had asked a question that makes Frank Gehry surprised. “But you are an artist, right?” He asks in Gehry’s studio. “I’m an architect. I get that a lot because I’ve hung around with a lot of artists and I’m very close to a lot of them. I’m very involved in their work; I think a lot of my ideas have grown out of it, and that there’s been some give and take. So sometimes I get called an artist. Somebody’ll say, ‘Oh, well, Frank’s an artist.’ I feel in a way that’s used like a dismissal. I want to say I’m an architect. My intention is to make architecture.”

As we know, Gehry’s works are more to a piece of sculpture rather than to be called ‘building’. So, when people don’t like Gehry’s buildings, it is usually because they don’t look like common buildings. What we see at Gehry building, is an expression of what contemporary life looks like when considered as a property of an architectural program. A Gehry building is the practical result and manifesto of a playful logic, found in the program. The work begins as paper models. “Paper, is structure. If I can make it out of paper I know I can build it,” says Gehry.

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On December 20, the vote by the Public Authorities Control Board ended three years of debates between opponents and supporters of the $4 billion project. The approval of the three-member Public Authorities Control Board came after the developer agreed to shrink the size of the complex’s highest tower ~the 620-foot building called “Miss Brooklyn” by the project’s architect, Frank Gehry~ so that it will be shorter than the nearby Williamsburgh Savings Bank, Brooklyn’s tallest building at 512 feet, despite critics said the changes were far too modest to allay their concerns over the project’s size and scale.

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