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Article: Experience Music Project Names Frank Gehry as Architect; Interactive Music Museum to be World-Renowned Designer's First Music-Oriented and Pacific Northwest Commission.
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- June 10, 1996
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SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 10, 1996--Experience Music Project(tm) today announced that Frank O. Gehry & Associates Inc. has been chosen as the museum's architect.
After a careful international search, Gehry was selected to design EMP and oversee building development and construction for the museum, scheduled to open in 1999 at Seattle Center.
Gehry is known around the world for designing buildings - such as the American Center in Paris; the Temporary Contemporary Museum in Los Angeles; the Chiat/Day Building in Venice, Calif.; the Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum in Minneapolis; and the forthcoming Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain -- that integrate unique ...