Dr Chau Chak Wing Building, Sydney Building Name: Dr Chau Chak Wing Building Building Architect: Frank Gehry Project Overview The Chau Chak Wing Building is the first Australian building designed by internationally renowned architect, Frank Gehry, and is a flagship project of the University of Technology Sydney’s City Campus plan. As such, the building represents a singular and remarkable creative vision, with two distinct facades providing two different aspects and ‘personalities’: one composed of undulating brickwork, referencing the dignified sandstone of Sydney’s urban heritage, and the other a glass shard ‘curtain wall’ that mirrors fragments of the building’s contemporary city surrounds. Gehry imagined a building that was a cluster of ‘tree houses’, or vertical stacks of

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