Frank Gehry's Stalled Louis Vuitton Foundation Project Given the Go Ahead

Back in early February, both Parisians and Frank Gehry alike received a shock that a local administrative panel, after hearing the pleas of local residents in the neighborhood it was to be built in, had issued a stop work order on the architect’s Louis Vuitton Foundation for Creation building. Gehry lashed out, calling the Parisians “philistines” and, in a particularly angry moment, said to the Telegraph, “With their little tight-fitting suits, they want to put Paris into formalin.

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