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Jul 2, 2024 · Frank Gehry, Canadian American architect and designer whose original, sculptural, often audacious work won him worldwide renown. His buildings often undermine the viewer’s expectations of traditional materials and forms. Gehry’s best-known projects include Guggenheim Museum Bilbao and Walt Disney Concert Hall.
Architect Frank Gehry won the commission decisively, with a thoroughly considered design and the potential for a highly original architectural statement. With its openness and space for lush gardens, Gehry’s scheme evidenced a full understanding of what a building in Los Angeles should be.
Image 7 of 26 from gallery of AD Classics: Walt Disney Concert Hall / Gehry Partners. Photograph by Philipp Rümmele
Oct 5, 2023 · The Los Angeles Philharmonic marks the 20th anniversary of Walt Disney Concert Hall at its annual gala concert by paying homage to Frank Gehry, a longtime friend of the LA Phil and architect behind the iconic downtown LA venue as well as the Judith and Thomas L. Beckmen YOLA Center at Inglewood. Honoring Gehry’s iconoclasm with performances by iconoclasts in their own fields, the evening’s ...
Jul 9, 2024 · Frank Gehry’s Walt Disney Concert Hall is a world-class performance venue to the privileged people of Los Angeles and a tribute to Walt Disney’s devotion to the arts, an idea coined by his wife, Lillian Disney.
ate in 1988, four designs submitted to the competition for a new concert hall in downtown Los Angeles were first unveiled to the public. Directly adjacent to the Music Center, the proposed Walt Disney Concert Hall was made possible by a $50 million gift by Lillian Disney in honor of her late husband, and the future hall was intended to serve as a new dedicated home for the LA Phil.
Both the architecture by Frank Gehry and the acoustics of the concert hall (designed by Yasuhisa Toyota) were praised in contrast to its predecessor, the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. Upon completion in 2003, the project cost an estimated $274 million; the parking garage alone cost $110 million.
