The Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health is designed by world-renowned architect Frank Gehry. Gehry’s portfolio includes such projects as the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles and the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain. Time magazine has named Frank Gehry the world’s “greatest living architect.”
Gehry deftly manipulates space and materials to create stunning structures that captivate the imagination. His design of Keep Memory Alive’s headquarters at the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health in Las Vegas, Nevada is nothing short of remarkable. Gehry created a masterpiece of architectural design, blending strong visual impact with structurally humanized patient care.
Gehry wanted to create a place in Las Vegas that would be memorable. He explains, “The mantra is Keep Memory Alive. I’m trying to make a building that people will want to visit, remember, talk about, and enjoy, and ultimately will want to partner with us at the Center to help cure some of the neurodegenerative diseases.”
Gehry put a lot of his own heart into the building, and acknowledges a personal connection. The wife and three brothers-in-law of Dr. Milton Wexler, Gehry’s longtime analyst and friend, were stricken with Huntington’s disease, a devastating neurological affliction. For roughly 35 years, the architect has served on the board of Wexler’s Hereditary Disease Foundation, established to study Huntington’s, which is why this project with Keep Memory Alive was so close to Gehry’s heart. Huntington’s disease is one of the disorders studied at Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health.
Contact Keep Memory Alive at 702.263.9797 or info@keepmemoryalive.org to schedule a tour of the Gehry-designed facility and hear more about the work being done by Keep Memory Alive.
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