VandDusen Botanical Garden

VanDusen Botanical Garden
vancouver.ca/parks/parks/vandusen/
Vancouver, British Columbia



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Frank Gehry: Experience Music Project

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen and his sister, Jody Patton, commisioned Frank Gehry to design this homage to Jimi Hendrix and to house the interactive music museum (EMP). Gehry designed the structure to accommodate Allen's demands that the complex be gritty, industrially informal, and true to what he calls the "swoopy" spirit of rock.

The building is 13,006 sq metres (140,000 sq ft) and 26 metres (85ft) high. Using a variety of processes, the surfaces, some made of aluminum, others of stainless steel, were given color that had symbolic meaning: light blue represented Fender guitars, gold Les Paul guitars, red for others, the purple of the Sky Dome referred to Hendrix’s song “Purple Haze,” and silver is meant to remind us of strings and other guitar accessories.

Experience Music Project/Science Fiction Museum & Hall of Fame
www.empsfm.org/
Seattle Center
Seattle, Washington



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