The Washington Times

Frank Gehry

Latest Frank Gehry Items
  • Japanese architect Toyo Ito wins Pritzker Prize

    Japanese architect Toyo Ito, whose buildings have been praised for their fluid beauty and balance between the physical and virtual world, has won the 2013 Pritzker Architecture Prize, the prize's jury announced Sunday.


  • Japanese architect Toyo Ito wins Pritzker Prize

    Japanese architect Toyo Ito, whose buildings have been praised for their fluid beauty and balance between the physical and virtual world, has won the 2013 Pritzker Architecture Prize, the prize's jury announced Sunday.


  • Japanese architect Toyo Ito, whose buildings have been praised for their fluid beauty and balance between the physical and virtual world, has won the 2013 Pritzker Architecture Prize, the prize's jury announced on Sunday, March 17, 2013. Mr. Ito is the sixth Japanese architect to receive the honor. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Toyo Ito and Associates, Architects, Yoshiaki Tsutsui)

    Japanese architect Toyo Ito wins Pritzker Prize

    Japanese architect Toyo Ito, whose buildings have been praised for their fluid beauty and balance between the physical and virtual world, has won the 2013 Pritzker Architecture Prize, the prize's jury announced Sunday.


  • This model image, provided by Eisenhower Memorial Commission, shows the proposed Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial to be built in Washington. The American Institute of Architects is opposing an effort in Congress to eliminate funding and scrap the proposed design, saying lawmakers should not censor an architectural work. (AP Photo/Eisenhower Memorial Commission)

    Architects oppose bill to alter Frank Gehry's proposed memorial to Eisenhower

    An effort in Congress to eliminate funding and scrap the proposed design for a national memorial honoring President Dwight D. Eisenhower drew strong opposition Friday from the American Institute of Architects, which said lawmakers should not censor an architectural work.


  • Eisenhower Memorial approval delayed into 2013

    Plans to build a national memorial honoring President Dwight D. Eisenhower will be delayed into next year as the World War II general's family continues to object to a design by architect Frank Gehry.


  • A woman and her son scramble over a tree toppled by Superstorm Sandy as she accompanies him to Public School 195 (background) in the Manhattan Beach neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York on Monday. Monday was the first day of public school for New York City students after the storm of a week ago. The woman declined to provide their names. Fewer than 50 schools throughout the five boroughs remained closed because of structural damage and fewer than 20 were without power. (Associated Press)

    A week after Sandy, N.Y. students back at schools

    The nation's largest school system lurched to life Monday, when all but the most affected students still suffering from Superstorm Sandy made their way back to classes on foot, ferry and subway.


  • Britain's Queen Elizabeth II arrives for a Service of Thanksgiving in St. Macartin's Cathedral in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, on Tuesday, June 26, 2012, as part of the celebration of her 60 years on the throne. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)

    Breach of confidence: Don't quote the queen

    Britons got a rare glimpse of Queen Elizabeth II's personal views Tuesday when a prominent BBC reporter told a live radio audience about a conversation he had with the queen in which she apparently described telling a minister of her concern about the continued liberty of radical Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri.


  • Silicon Valley isn't sharing Facebook's misery

    Silicon Valley, it turns out, doesn't revolve around the stock prices of Facebook and its playful sidekick, Zynga.


  • Interior image of the Corcoran Gallery of Art  on Thursday, July 5, 2012, in Washington D.C. (Raymond Thompson/The Washington Times)

    Cramped, cash-strapped Corcoran Gallery: To flee or not to flee?

    Sometime, somehow, the Corcoran Gallery of Art and its College of Art & Design may be relocating to somewhere. That was the gist of the 115-year-old institution's announcement last month, and that was still the situation Thursday.


Happening Now