I ran across this article in the archnewsnow.com newsletter update -
A Touch of super-star architecture in Budapest
Quoting part of the article -
"While time after time, rumours tend to spread about star-architects about to sign a contract - Daniel Libeskind's name was whispered in connection with the reconstruction of Kazinczy street synagogue - their actual employment did not become a practice. But this practice seems to be one of the conditions of success, as it is proved by Frank O. Gehry's Guggenheim Museum, that managed to put an insignificant town, Bilbao on the cultural world map.
The example of Bilbao - which was successfully repeated a number of times - proves that star-culture and iconic architecture is legitimate - of course not the arbitrary signification, but a coherent concept for the city, that is served by a piece of unusual architecture. Ginger and Fred, the house by Gehry in Prague is good example for the birth of an icon - a piece of deconstructed architecture, without a tendency to destroy the coherent image of the baroque town."
Well, there's the catch, that last sentence. Sometimes, given examples in other cities, this is hard to do well.