Luma-Arles

Frank Gehry will spend his 97th year (b. February 1929) drafting a parametric glass canopy over the tram station at the Getty Center, a hilltop institution he had not touched since the early 1990s. The frank gehry institutional commissions catalogued below — from the 1989 Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein to the May 2026 Getty tram-station revamp confirmed by Dezeen on 29 May — span 37 years, four continents and a single argument: that civic culture deserves a roof shaped like weather. The new Getty job, awarded to Gehry Partners alongside WHY Architecture and landscape studio Olin, bookends the run that started on Rolf Fehlbaum’s grass in Baden-Württemberg. ...

On 1 May 2026, “Zaha Hadid: I Think There Should Be No End to Experimentation” opens at LUMA Arles in the Parc des Ateliers, Arles, France, running until Spring 2027. The zaha hadid paintings luma arles survey, curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist with Arthur Fouray and Lucas Jacques-Witz and produced with the Zaha Hadid Foundation, occupies The Tower, Archives Gallery and Cherry Tree Gallery inside Frank Gehry’s 56-metre stainless-steel pile and reframes every acrylic, ink wash and competition perspective Hadid produced between her 1977 AA thesis and the 2012 Heydar Aliyev Center as the operative drawings of her architecture, not its decoration. ...