Had this been announced closer to April 1st, I’d suspect an April Fool’s Day joke, but…
An Iowa philanthropist and architecture aficionado—who wishes to remain anonymous—is offering a $300 million “reward” to any city anywhere in the world that’s brave enough to hire someone other than Frank Gehry to design its new art museum.
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