Frank O. Gehry may be the most tolerant guy in the world, he may totally get off on just letting stuff happen to him, stuff that most people myself included would object to quite vehemently. So it may not be at all startling to learn that Frank O. Gehry has designed The New Centre for Human Dignity and Museum of Tolerance.

But maybe it is startling. Employed in this project is the same tired theme-park imagery that has graced Frank O. Gehry’s work since Bilbao. How can a museum located in Jerusalem and concerning itself with the exploration of human dignity end up as just another collage of irregular formal gestures? A formal language that it shares with a winery in Ontario and the Experience Music Project (’You may not need to be a rock star to appreciate EMP, but you might leave here feeling like one’) in Seattle.

So what if he got The Pritzker. Shiny trinkets may buy the loyalty of the monkeys but they don’t hold sway over me.