The GMB is a dramatically scaled limestone-and-titanium-clad conglomeration of vertical and horizontal volumes, united off-center by an enormous glass-walked atrium and topped by a cluster of organic forms suggesting a "metallic flower," as Gehry calls it. At 250,000 square feet, it is the Pritzker Prize winner's largest museum to date (his best known is the Frederick Rweisman Art Museum in Minncapolis. It also rivals the world's grandest contemporary art behcuoths by near- ly doubling the Centre Pompidou in height and length. Its massive scale has allowed Gehry free rein to com bine broad, expansive forms with relatively compact shapes, and thus arrive at a more appealing results than his sometimes fussy desigrus, such as the Aumerican Center in Paris