Scaly aluminium cladding and projecting glass boxes wrap around Frank Gehry's Luma Arles tower, which is nearing completion in the south of France.
Revealed in new photos by Atelier Vincent Hecht, the twisting tower in the city of Arles has reached its full height of 56 metres ahead of its opening in spring.

Atelier Vincent Hecht's photos reveal the distinctive facade of the Luma Arles tower, which is finished with 11,000 aluminium panels irregularly arranged around its concrete and steel frame.
Described by architecture critic Frank Miller as a "stainless-steel tornado", the cladding was designed by Gehry to evoke the craggy limestone cliffs around the city for which it is known.

Once complete, Gehry's tower will contain a mix of artist studios, workshops, seminar rooms and research facilities.
These will be complemented by a series of exhibition spaces across the complex that are being designed by New York-based Selldorf Architects within six existing industrial buildings on the site.

Pritzker Prize-winning Gehry is an American-Canadian architect best known for the titanium-clad Guggenheim Museum Bilbao that opened in Spain in 1997.
More recently, he completed the Louis Vuitton Maison Seoul that features a facade of sweeping glass sails and proposed iceberg-like headquarters for the Warner Bros in Los Angeles.
Photography is by Atelier Vincent Hecht.
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