Frank Gehry designed a seven-ton glass reception desk
Inspired by a single glass fragment, the architect created a massive installation of rough-cut blocks that mimics the visual chaos of a factory explosion.
Architect Frank Gehry is famous for the sweeping titanium curves of the Guggenheim Bilbao, but one of his most massive works was designed for a corporate lobby. Known as Icehenge, the installation is a seven-ton reception desk composed of 16 separate pieces of emerald-tinted glass. It was originally created for the Inland Steel Building in Chicago, a skyscraper Gehry admired so much he once owned a stake in it.
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