US architect Frank Gehry won Spain's top annual arts award for decades spent creating eye-catching buildings such as the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, the prize jury said on Wednesday. The 85-year-old Canadian-born architect was named winner of the 50,000-euro ($70,000) Prince of Asturias Award for the Arts for work that has "defined and furthered architecture in the past half century", the jury said in its citation. Among Gehry's best-known creations is the Bilbao Guggenheim, a silver mass of curved titanium that dominates the centre of the northern Spanish city, and the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles. Gehry was born in Toronto in 1929 but took US nationality after moving with his parents in 1947 to Los Angeles.
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