Description

The Lou Ruvo Center is a distinctly Gehry designed building, draped and wrapped with a mountainous metal-clad skin, faced in shingled panels and punctured with a grid of windows. The voluminous structure consists of 875.5 total tons of steel and 544 individual fabricated steel elements. The Center serves as a revenue-generating event space as well as a space for patient programs and stands at the back of an orthogonal, four-story working structure that serves as a clinic, research center, and the nonprofit Keep Memory Alive foundation headquarters. Smith-Emery provided third-party inspection for the Center which required exceptional precision in its building, with no room for error; any errors would have required a complete teardown and rebuild of 544 steel elements and 30,000 steel bolts.