Step Inside Frank Gehry’s Newest Tower in the South of France
The centerpiece of Luma Arles, an art campus in the French city, is finally open to the public.
Luma Arles, a 27-acre “creative campus” funded by the Swiss pharmaceutical heiress Maja Hoffmann, will open to the public on June 26, marking the culmination of a seven year construction process.
Set within a former rail yard and factory area known as the Parc des Ateliers near the heart of Arles, the campus includes a group of industrial buildings that were renovated by architect Annabelle Selldorf, a 10-acre park designed by landscape architect Bas Smets, and, dwarfing everything else, a 11-level tower (two below ground, nine above) designed by “starchitect” Frank Gehry that covers roughly 160,000 square feet.