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 …
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 …
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 …
