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Articles for Frank Gehry

Downtown L.A. is hurting. Frank Gehry thinks arts can lead a revival
9 months ago

Downtown L.A. is hurting. Frank Gehry thinks arts can lead a revival

LA Times  

A pedestrian walks past Walt Disney Concert Hall on a sunny April morning in downtown Los Angeles, where two major expansions of cultural institutions are in the works. Bunker Hill will soon have the largest concentration of buildings designed by Frank Gehry in the world and promises to become a cultural center “like no other place,” the architect told the …

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Happy 95th birthday, Frank Gehry. Let’s give you the Disney Hall you really wanted
10 months, 3 weeks ago

Happy 95th birthday, Frank Gehry. Let’s give you the Disney Hall you really wanted

LA Times  

Over the last two decades, Walt Disney Concert Hall has blazed cultural trails like no place else. Starting with the “Tristan Project” in 2004, Wagner’s “Tristan und Isolde,” conducted by Salonen with video by Bill Viola and staged by Peter Sellars, Disney Hall inspired a full expansion of the notion of what classical music could be. In what has been …

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Frank Gehry-designed performing arts center at the Colburn School is under construction
10 months, 3 weeks ago

Frank Gehry-designed performing arts center at the Colburn School is under construction

LA Times  

One of architect Frank Gehry’s long-standing wishes is finally coming to life: a new concert venue in downtown Los Angeles that will complement his famous Walt Disney Concert Hall. The long-planned Colburn School addition will be the third Gehry-designed building on Bunker Hill, which already has Disney Concert Hall and the Grand LA, a $1-billion apartment, hotel and retail complex …

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L.A. Phil’s 2023-24 season lineup celebrates the 20th anniversary of Walt Disney Concert Hall
1 year, 10 months ago

L.A. Phil’s 2023-24 season lineup celebrates the 20th anniversary of Walt Disney Concert Hall

LA Times  

Walt Disney Concert Hall, the Frank Gehry-designed home of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, celebrates its 20th anniversary this year with a 2023-24 season that will pay tribute to the hall and its architect, the orchestra is expected to announce Tuesday — on Gehry’s 94th birthday. This fall’s Disney Hall lineup will call back to Oct. 24, 2003, when a Times …

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Inside Frank Gehry’s latest Los Angeles mega-project
2 years, 6 months ago

Inside Frank Gehry’s latest Los Angeles mega-project

LA Times  

As his latest Los Angeles mega-project neared completion, Frank Gehry was offered an apartment with sweeping views high up in the 45-story Grand LA complex he designed on Bunker Hill in downtown. Disney Hall doesn’t look like an outlier.” VIDEO | 02:57 Frank Gehry gives a tour of the $1-billion mixed-use complex, the Grand Frank Gehry gives a tour of …

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Gustavo Dudamel and Frank Gehry give YOLA’s new Inglewood concert hall a sound check
3 years, 7 months ago

Gustavo Dudamel and Frank Gehry give YOLA’s new Inglewood concert hall a sound check

LA Times  

Gustavo Dudamel plays with young musicians during a sneak peek and early test of the sound inside the Frank Gehry-designed Beckmen YOLA Center, the future home of the L.A. Phil’s Youth Orchestra Los Angeles. For the record: A previous version of this story said the Youth Orchestra Los Angeles string players performed Bach’s Fourth “Brandenburg” Concerto. Musicians from Youth Orchestra …

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Frank Gehry’s bold plan to upgrade the L.A. River seeks to atone for past injustices
4 years ago

Frank Gehry’s bold plan to upgrade the L.A. River seeks to atone for past injustices

LA Times  

In the decades since engineers first blanketed the Los Angeles River with concrete, working-class communities along its armored banks have struggled with blight, poverty and crowding — unintended consequences perhaps of an epic bid to control Mother Nature. Areas off the river’s east bank near downtown L.A., for example, were described by home lenders as being honeycombed with “diverse and …

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Commentary: Why Grand Avenue and Frank Gehry are L.A.’s path out of the pandemic
4 years, 4 months ago

Commentary: Why Grand Avenue and Frank Gehry are L.A.’s path out of the pandemic

LA Times  

A rendering of the Grand, now under construction, with Grand Avenue closed and projections on Walt Disney Concert Hall. The Crenshaw/LAX Transit project will add public transportation from the YOLA Center in Inglewood that Gehry has designed for the L.A. Phil’s youth orchestra and education programs. In our discussion, Gehry announced that he’s designing a community arts training center in …

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Explore the past, present and future of downtown L.A.’s Grand Avenue
5 years, 7 months ago

Explore the past, present and future of downtown L.A.’s Grand Avenue

LA Times  

Walk the length of Grand Avenue from Temple to 5th Street, and you’ll encounter one of the most vital arts hubs in the city. Travis Geske / For The Times City of angels, city of culture Los Angeles Times executive editor Norman Pearlstine shares his impressions of the Grand Avenue project in downtown Los Angeles. How Grand Avenue elevated L.A.'s …

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Timeline: How Bunker Hill transformed Los Angeles and Grand Avenue
5 years, 7 months ago

Timeline: How Bunker Hill transformed Los Angeles and Grand Avenue

LA Times  

Grand Avenue is home to a cluster of architectural and artistic achievements that attract millions of people a year, locals and tourists whose energy carries the promise of a vibrant urban center on Bunker Hill. The city’s Community Redevelopment Agency studied how to redevelop 135 acres of the Bunker Hill neighborhood “classified by local and federal authorities as a slum …

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Critic’s Notebook: Frank Gehry went to Berlin to celebrate his 90th birthday. The reason: Music, music, music
5 years, 10 months ago

Critic’s Notebook: Frank Gehry went to Berlin to celebrate his 90th birthday. The reason: Music, music, music

LA Times  

Music Critic When Frank Gehry turned 80, Los Angeles threw a celebration worthy of one of the region’s most illustrious residents, to say nothing of the world’s most celebrated living architect. The occasion was meant to give thanks for the gift Gehry had given Berlin, even though the city didn’t think it wanted or needed such a gift before the …

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Developers of Grand Avenue’s Gehry project say work will begin this month now that financing is secured
6 years, 2 months ago

Developers of Grand Avenue’s Gehry project say work will begin this month now that financing is secured

LA Times  

Related Cos. has secured construction financing for the Grand, a nearly $1-billion complex with apartments, condominiums, theaters, restaurants and shops. Since Related Cos. first got the contract in 2004 to build the massive Grand Avenue project, there’s been a housing boom and bust, a financial crisis and a new explosion of residential construction downtown. “We look forward to celebrating with …

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L.A. Phil’s new YOLA Center: Why a youth concert hall in Inglewood has global implications
6 years, 5 months ago

L.A. Phil’s new YOLA Center: Why a youth concert hall in Inglewood has global implications

LA Times  

At right, Gustavo Dudamel embraces architect Frank Gehry as they view Gehry’s model for the new YOLA Center. But this new home for the L.A. Philharmonic’s signature music education program, Youth Orchestra Los Angeles, he said, “is what has me most excited and proud.” Gustavo Dudamel proposed training young musicians in underserved communities when he was appointed the L.A. Phil’s …

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Review: ‘This Brush for Hire: Norm Laich and Many Other Artists’ at ICA LA
6 years, 5 months ago

Review: ‘This Brush for Hire: Norm Laich and Many Other Artists’ at ICA LA

LA Times  

Artist Norm Laich has assisted many other artists in fabricating their work over the last 30 years, including Scott Grieger, left, and the late John Boskovich. In Amanda Ross-Ho’s vinyl wall drawing, the phrase “a very very very rough proposal” appears to have been scrawled in black marker on the white gallery wall — all caps, no punctuation. Alexis Smith, …

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