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Dataland, the world’s first AI arts museum, will anchor the Grand complex in downtown L.A.
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Dataland, the world’s first AI arts museum, will anchor the Grand complex in downtown L.A.

LA Times  

Refik Anadol, the artist who projected the history of the Los Angeles Philharmonic as a piece of algorithmic video onto the curving steel walls of Frank Gehry’s Walt Disney Concert Hall in 2018, announced Tuesday that he will open the world’s first museum of AI arts across the street next year. “We are blending Gehry’s building with AI’s infrastructure and …

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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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How Gustavo Dudamel, the L.A. Phil and Frank Gehry pulled off a very L.A. ‘Das Rheingold’
11 months, 2 weeks ago

How Gustavo Dudamel, the L.A. Phil and Frank Gehry pulled off a very L.A. ‘Das Rheingold’

LA Times  

Los Angeles has little history with Wagner’s four-opera “Ring” cycle, his epic on how to save the world from conniving gods, power mongers and hoarders of wealth with their ruinous fancies. Compared with contemporary “Ring” productions, particularly in Europe, where Wagner’s warning is often treated as a compellingly dysfunctional family drama, this might seem old-school conventional. The L.A. Phil’s other …

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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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Can Bilbao’s Guggenheim provide a model of art-led levelling up?
2 years, 2 months ago

Can Bilbao’s Guggenheim provide a model of art-led levelling up?

The Independent  

Outside Bilbao’s Guggenheim Museum, beside the Río Nervión, stand two sculptures by Eduardo Chillida, the Basque Country’s greatest modern artist, which symbolise the rejuvenation of this gutsy Spanish port. As the Guggenheim celebrates its silver jubilee, what can other cities learn from what’s become commonly known as the “Bilbao Effect”? “We have had more visitors than expected and that means …

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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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Commentary: Frank Gehry's new Colburn design could transform L.A.
2 years, 9 months ago

Commentary: Frank Gehry's new Colburn design could transform L.A.

LA Times  

In 2016, Colburn — the community music school, conservatory, academy and dance school — bought a cheerless outdoor parking lot on the corner of 2nd and Olive streets downtown for $33 million. It was on a steep, pedestrian unfriendly hill that led to the Colburn’s Grand Avenue campus, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Walt Disney Concert Hall and the Broad. …

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How SoFi Stadium’s landscape designer is transforming Los Angeles’ urban grid
2 years, 11 months ago

How SoFi Stadium’s landscape designer is transforming Los Angeles’ urban grid

LA Times  

Imagine the Los Angeles that might exist if it weren’t encased in a concrete crust: Contours of soft earth rather than rigid asphalt. With the arrival of Super Bowl LVI, one of Studio-MLA’s most prominent projects is now coming into view: its meticulous landscape design for the behemoth $5-billion SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, along with its adjacent Lake Park. “If …

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Bank to Burger King to Frank Gehry-designed concert hall
3 years, 5 months ago

Bank to Burger King to Frank Gehry-designed concert hall

LA Times  

If you’re tooling down South La Brea Avenue in Inglewood and get to Queen Street, it might seem that the old bank building on the corner is the same as it ever was. Welcome to the Judith and Thomas L. Beckmen YOLA Center in downtown Inglewood, where the outside is all 1960s branch bank but the inside is a dynamic, …

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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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Op-Ed: How to make sure the L.A. River Master Plan fulfills its promise to the Gateway Cities
3 years, 10 months ago

Op-Ed: How to make sure the L.A. River Master Plan fulfills its promise to the Gateway Cities

LA Times  

The confluence of the Los Angeles River and Rio Hondo, where the river master plan needs to focus not just on parks and cultural centers but equitable redevelopment for the surrounding communities. An ambitious new Los Angeles River Master Plan, available for public comment until March 14, promises big changes all along the waterway’s 51 miles — nowhere more so …

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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: Frank Gehry unveils designs for two L.A. concert halls. But will they get built?
4 years, 4 months ago

Commentary: Frank Gehry unveils designs for two L.A. concert halls. But will they get built?

LA Times  

The Grand is rising. As the decades-delayed mixed-use facility designed by Frank Gehry begins to take towering, and possibly transformative, shape across the street from his Walt Disney Concert Hall, crucial missing pieces of that transformation are suddenly noticeable: two concert halls and a public plaza by Gehry that are keys to making Grand Avenue an arts arena like none …

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The $1-billion bet that people will return to downtown L.A. after COVID
4 years, 4 months ago

The $1-billion bet that people will return to downtown L.A. after COVID

LA Times  

The Grand, a $1-billion towering collection of apartments, stores, restaurants, movie theaters and a luxury hotel in downtown L.A. across the street from the Walt Disney Concert Hall, left, has reached the halfway mark as construction carries on through the pandemic. Most of us believe the world will never be the same.” The goal is to make public spaces at …

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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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Lewis MacAdams, famed crusader for the Los Angeles River, dies at 75
4 years, 8 months ago

Lewis MacAdams, famed crusader for the Los Angeles River, dies at 75

LA Times  

Lewis MacAdams leans on a railing along a green stretch of the Los Angeles River in Elysian Valley, a few miles north of downtown Los Angeles, in 2016. MacAdams, who died of complications related to Parkinson’s disease early Tuesday at a healthcare facility in Los Angeles, was a visionary figure who led the hardened army known as Friends of the …

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How Disney Hall has transformed a downtown L.A. neighborhood and the city beyond
5 years, 7 months ago

How Disney Hall has transformed a downtown L.A. neighborhood and the city beyond

LA Times  

For this Grand Avenue project, we invited Justin Davidson, the architecture critic for New York magazine, to cast his eye on the evolving cultural density of Grand Avenue. Sixteen years after Frank Gehry’s marvel opened — and 30 since Lillian Disney made the down payment — Disney Hall is still spinning off energy, and the neighborhood around it is still …

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Eli Broad looks back at the evolution of L.A.’s most important arts hub
5 years, 7 months ago

Eli Broad looks back at the evolution of L.A.’s most important arts hub

LA Times  

Introduction Entrepreneur and philanthropist Eli Broad has been compared to Lorenzo de’ Medici, a patron without peer who has played major roles at arts institutions throughout Los Angeles. Here Broad looks back at the creation and development of MOCA, the Walt Disney Concert Hall and the Broad museum — which have reinvigorated Grand Avenue and downtown and elevated the city’s …

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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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Can big names and big money make the Grand a great civic place?
5 years, 7 months ago

Can big names and big money make the Grand a great civic place?

LA Times  

After more than 15 years, the Grand — the final piece of Bunker Hill’s transformative Grand Avenue Project — is finally showing signs of life. According to current plans, the $1-billion-plus development, designed by Frank Gehry and developed by Related Cos. and set directly across the street from Gehry’s Walt Disney Concert Hall, will, by 2021, contain a residential tower, …

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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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Warner Bros. plans to buy Burbank Studios and occupy new Frank Gehry ‘iceberg’ towers
5 years, 9 months ago

Warner Bros. plans to buy Burbank Studios and occupy new Frank Gehry ‘iceberg’ towers

LA Times  

Warner Bros. has sweeping plans to expand its Burbank headquarters by acquiring a nearby studio complex and moving into two Frank Gehry-designed office towers fashioned to look like icebergs floating alongside the 134 Freeway. Worthe and partner Stockbridge Real Estate Fund plan to keep about seven acres of the Burbank Studios site, where they will build the Gehry-designed office towers, …

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