Frank Gehry’s smashed “brown bag” building

Love it? Hate it? You definitely have to call it “unique”! Frank Gehry’s new creation is being compared to a crumbled brown lunch bag. As his first building in Australia, Gehry was commissioned to design a business school building at the University of Technology in Sydney. Taking more than 2 years to complete, the undulating walls are made of 320,000 bricks which were laid by hand, one-by-one. The interior is more “clean” with wood-paneled oval classrooms built with the intent of small group collaboration in mind. Mr. Gehry says “rather than a squished brown bag, his inspiration was driven from a tree house… he imagined a central trunk with branches surrounding everything for reflecting and learning to take place in the best possible manner!”