Frank Gehry Looks to Asia for Projects

Frank Gehry, artist of Los Angeles’s Walt Disney Concert Hall, is gluttonous projects in Asian countries including China and India as slower U.S. advance crimps development in the world’s better economy.The artist said he’s aggressive to plan a building in one of China’s fast-expanding city areas, as able-bodied as a “very airy affectionate of a building” in India. He beneath to accord added details. Gehry advised an aquarium as allotment of the contempo redevelopment of the Ocean Park allure in Hong Kong.Gehry, 82, is axis to Asia as developers alpha few projects in the U.S. The Architecture Billings Index, an indicator of American construction, plunged to 46.9 aftermost ages from 51.4 in August, absorption lower appeal for architecture services, according to the American Institute of Architects. Any account beneath than 50 indicates a abatement in billings.Meanwhile, “there’s an art access in China,” Gehry said in an Oct. 25 account at Bloomberg’s Los Angeles offices. “It’s absolutely abundant -- actual exciting.