The completed Luma Arles arts centre will be surrounded by a public park, named the Parc des Ateliers, which will be designed by Belgian landscape architect Bureau Bas Smets.Ĭanadian-American architect Gehry is one of the world's leading architects, with the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles and Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao among his best-known buildings. Photo by Hervé Hôteįunded by a €150 million donation from Hoffmann, the Luma Arles arts centre is being built on a former railyard once owned by French national railway company SNCF that was left vacant in 1986.Īlong with the tower, a series of existing industrial buildings on the site are being converted into exhibition spaces by New York-based Selldorf Architects. 'Its central drum echoes the plan of the Roman amphitheatre.' The tower forms part of the Luma Arles arts centre. 'We wanted to evoke the local, from Van Gogh's Starry Night to the soaring rock clusters you find in the region,' explained Gehry. Related story Frank Gehry reveals latest design for pair of skyscraper in Toronto

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