Frank Gehry's most iconic work - in pictures

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Frank Gehry, a provocative and creative force in architecture who has died aged 96, was behind some of the world's most intriguing buildings.

Tim Graham/Getty Images A view of the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain. It shows the building's unique silver material, glistening in bright sunshine, around its iconic curvature.

Insights/Universal Images Group via Getty Images Prague's Dancing House is seen in a portrait photograph taken from the street. A tram passes by near traffic. The building's unique slanting frontage is seen covered in a concrete and glass concoction. Gehry's iconic window-style is also seen on the building's facade.

Tim Graham/Getty Images Hotel Marques de Riscal Bodega in Spain with its iconic purple cladding glistening in the sun. The facade is a chaotic combination that laces around itself with a sundeck on top.

Tim Graham/Getty Images A focused photograph of the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao. The building's iconic titanium cladding shines in bright sunlight with a glass box sticking out at the top building

Michael Jacobs/Art in All of Us/Corbis via Getty Images The Louis Vuitton Foundation building is seen against a bright-blue sky. Its steel and glass structure bursts out of the ground in a variety of wings surrounding a central brick building that is obscured from view by the glass. It sits beside parked cars on a road with trees in the background.

Petr Svarc/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images Peix d'Or, Goldfish sculpture designed by Frank Gehry, in Barcelona is seen against a bright blue sky

View Pictures/Universal Images Group via Getty Images A golden hour view of the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles. The sun reflects off the titanium cladding that is shaped like wings around a curved element. There are the outlines of trees in the foreground, with a blue sky framing the shot.

JOKER/Walter G. Allgöwer/ullstein bild via Getty Images Der Neue Zollhof building in Düsseldorf, Germany - the photograph is a close-up of the buildings stainless-steel facade lined with windows of varying sizes

View Pictures/Universal Images Group via Getty Images The Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles is seen from the street outside and juxtaposed with the imposing skyscrapers on central LA

View Pictures/Universal Images Group via Getty Images An internal view of Bilbao's Guggenheim shows off the building's unique curved form. Light floods in from a glass wall to the left-hand side

Natalie Naccache/Bloomberg via Getty Images The construction of Abu Dhabi's Guggenheim museum seen in 2023 from the Louvre Abu Dhabi

Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images Frank Gehry has his back to the camera as he stands at a kitchen island within his personal apartment at The Grand by Gehry development in Los Angeles

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