Architect Frank Gehry has designed a pair of office buildings for Warner Bros Entertainment in Los Angeles, to resemble "icebergs floating along the freeway".
Gehry Partners' plans for the 800,000-square-foot (74-square-metre) complex to extend the entertainment company's current building in the Burbank Media District. Located in the city of Burbank, the area has formed a hub for major media and entertainment companies such as Warner Bros since the 1920s.
The Canadian-American architect hopes the project will "recapture that feeling of old Hollywood splendour" that existed during its early years.
"Once upon a time, Hollywood Studios had an important architectural presence in the city ? they were like monuments to the movie-making process," said Gehry. Frank Gehry designed the buildings to extend Warner Bros' campus in the Burbank Media District
Nicknamed Second Century Project, the complex will be erected opposite Warner Bros headquarters on the other side of the Ventura Freeway. It will comprise two huge office buildings broken up into stepped, staggered and slanted fragments, and fronted by glass.
"From the freeway, the buildings are composed as one long sculptural glass facade that creates a single identity like icebergs floating along the freeway," said Gehry.
A terraced, punched-metal facade will run along the rear of the building and is intended to reference the scale and aesthetic of the existing studio buildings.
The two str...