What) The Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health opened on July 13, 2009 and was designed by world-renowned architect, Frank Gehry. The $100 million Center operates as an outpatient treatment and research facility in downtown Las Vegas. The Center is approximately 65,000 sq ft and includes 13 examination rooms, offices for health care practitioners and researchers, a “Museum of the Mind,” and a community auditorium. The Center will also serve as the headquarters for Keep Memory Alive, the Las Vegas Alzheimer’s Association and the Las Vegas Parkinson’s Disease Association.
On his
blog, New Urbanist and architecture critic James Howard
Kunstler named the Lou Ruvo center his "Eyesore Of The Month"
for April 2010. Kunstler sharply criticized the Center's
design, writing: "It seems to say: This is your brain on Frank
Gehry". Kunstler suggested that the architecture was
inappropriate for the building's purpose: "If I had a problem
with my brain, I would not be reassured arriving at this
place. The implicit sadism is impressive". (1)
Where) 888 West Bonneville Avenue
Why) As you
may have noticed,
architecture is one of my interests and although I have never
really found any of Gehry's building visually appealing in
picture form I still wanted to see one of them in person and
see if that changed anything. 
Frank Ghery's building style is quite unusual so instead of shocking you by jumping right to those images we are
going to warm up by looking at the normal pyramid structure that sits across the street. Next we will move on to ...
... the back side of the Lou Rouvo Center which, when viewed from the angle that I am going to show you next, does not even
appear to be connected to the rest of the building but it is all the same structure that has been designed by the same person.
I can say that the task of including Gehry's structure into an image I liked was impossible for me to achieve. (2)
So I guess you could say that this bench was my favourite item on site although it is possible I would have enjoyed entering ...
