Frank Gehry’s Arts Resource Centre in Luma Arles, France (2018)

Luma Arles includes a resource center designed by architect Frank Gehry; various industrial buildings rehabilitated by Selldorf Architects; and a public park designed by landscape architect Bas Smets. A primary focus has been to create a centre of cultural activity that maintains the maximum flexibility for artistic research and production in the early part of this century that is global in outlook while responding to the specific needs and local context of the city of Arles, the South of France and the Mediterranean region. The centrepiece of Luma Arles in the Parc des Ateliers will be a new Arts Resource Centre designed by Frank Gehry, which will house archives, exhibition and presentation spaces, seminar rooms and a café / restaurant. The building includes a 8,700 square-metre lower level (archives, storage facilities, and programming) and also the Arts Resource Centre with its plaza-level, glass- enclosed indoor-outdoor space which together total 7,000 square-metre. Luma Arles also encompasses six hi