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New academic, research and office space for molecular sciences on the East Campus was designed by signature architect Frank Gehry and completed in the fall of '99. The building - named after Albert Vontz Jr., a Cincinnati businessman and UC alumnus who donated $5 million toward its completion -stands as a 360-degree sculpture, set off by green space of sculpted grassy mounds and terraces.
As architecturally unique as the Aronoff Center at DAAP, this building elicited a wide variety of responses, including nicknames such as the Fred Flintstone Building and the Marshmallow Building. "It says, 'I'm special; I want you to look at me,'" notes university architect Ron Kull. "Many people think of it as a special piece of sculpture on the front door to the medical center."
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