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I did it.': 'It's a real Frank Gehry.

Archiseek / Canada / News / 2006 / February 15

Frank Gehry

Yesterday, Frank Gehry laced up to play defence for Wayne Gretzky. The famed architect showed up at an Art Gallery of Ontario press conference wearing a Gretzky-style Canada bomber jacket in "solidarity" with his hockey superstar friend and launched a slap shot straight at the members of the press who have gone after the Great One over the NHL gambling scandal. "[Gretzky] is one of the straightest arrows in history," said Gehry, who is more often associated with curved or squiggly lines. "I guarantee he did nothing wrong and I'll swear by it." The Toronto-born master builder and hockey fan, who designed a new championship trophy for the World Cup of Hockey in 2004, added: "I love hockey." Gehry, the occasional subject of media highsticking himself, said he didn't like seeing No. 99 get "beat up by the press." He then delivered a cross-check to his own local critics, those who have huffed that his hockey-themed redesign for the AGO is at best a minor work. "It's a real Frank Gehry," he said of the gallery's $195-million renovation and expansion, which aims to be complete by 2008. "I did it."

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