All architects who consider themselves famous yearn for the great commission: a skyscraper. It is as if the consecration of a professional has its maximum recognition in the height of the commission, making the physical and moral connotations of the term coincide.

Frank Gehry's latest commissions contain that prestigious reward that corresponds to the formal Pritzker Prize: the skyscraper for the Cleveland Tribune and the Dallas complex - the city of glass prisms - in the Turtle Creek neighborhood. If this is not a true skyscraper by contemporary standards, it is a virtuoso concert on the quintessentially American theme of the high-rise city block. In Turtle Creek, Frank Gehry rehearses his peculiar way with high-rise buildings and submits his craft of architect and model sculptor to the traditional plot of designing under the dominion of the vertical...[+]