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Ray and Maria Stata Center, Massachusetts - Designed for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

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Ray and Maria Stata Center, Massachusetts - Located in Cambridge, it sits on the site of MIT's former Building 20, and opened in March 2004.

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Museum of Pop Culture, Washington - Sited in Seattle, and also known as MoPOP, it opened in 2000 as the Experience Music Project. It was also briefly known as the EMP Museum.

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Museum of Pop Culture, Washington - EMP was established by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen.

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IAC Building, New York - The IAC Building, InterActiveCorp's headquarters, is located in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan.

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IAC Building, New York - Inaugurated in 2007, the building was Gehry's first in New York City.

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Jay Pritzker Pavilion, Illinois - Opened in 2004, Chicago's showcase music shell (theatre) is found in the city's Millennium Park.

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Jay Pritzker Pavilion, Illinois - The 11,000-person-capacity pavilion includes 4,000 fixed seats and a 95,000 sq ft (8,826 sq m) grass lawn.

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New World Center, Florida - The Miami Beach home of the New World Symphony, a unique post-graduate orchestral academy.

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New World Center, Florida - Inaugurated in October 2012, the building was co-designed by acoustician Yasuhisa Toyota.

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Peter B. Lewis Building, Ohio - This is the home of the Weatherhead School of Management in Cleveland.

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Peter B. Lewis Building, Ohio - The building is located on the campus of Case Western Reserve University.

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On the world stage - The architect photographed inside the Walt Disney Concert Hall, one of his best-known works.

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Walt Disney Concert Hall, California - Seating 2,265 people, the venue serves as the home of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra and the Los Angeles Master Chorale.

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Walt Disney Concert Hall, California - Located in downtown Los Angeles and opened in 2003, the vast interior features a main stage made from Alaskan yellow cedar.

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Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, Minnesota - An art museum located on the University of Minnesota campus in Minneapolis.

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Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, Minnesota - Completed in 1993, the building is wrapped in a stainless steel skin.

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New York by Gehry, New York - The tower at 8 Spruce Street, marketed as New York by Gehry, is a striking New York City landmark.

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New York by Gehry, New York - Completed in 2010, the building stands in Lower Manhattan and is a 76-story mixed-use skyscraper.

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Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health, Nevada - Operated by the Cleveland Clinic, the facility is located in Las Vegas.

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Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health, Nevada - Completed in 2010, the building includes the fascinating Museum of the Mind.

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Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts, New York - The eye-catching performance hall is tucked away in the small town, Annandale-on-Hudson, in the Hudson Valley.

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Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts, New York - Regarded by The New Yorker as the best small concert hall in the United States, the venue opened in 2003.

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BP Pedestrian Bridge, Illinois - The serpentine footbridge connects Chicago's Millennium Park with Maggie Daley Park.

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BP Pedestrian Bridge, Illinois - Opened in 2004, this is the first Gehry-designed bridge to have been completed.

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Google Campus (Binoculars Building), California - Sited near Venice Beach, the 100,000 sq ft (9,290 sq m) campus building in Los Angeles is home to hundreds of employees.

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Google Campus (Binoculars Building), California - The iconic pair of giant binoculars at the entrance were designed by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen.

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Lewis Science Library, New Jersey - Set in the heart of Princeton University’s “science neighborhood,” the facility opened in 2009.

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A different view -

The world-renowned architect smiles as he looks through one of the models showing his grand staircase design for the transformation of the Art Gallery of Ontario.

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