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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Long-delayed Grand Avenue project in downtown Los Angeles kicks off
5 years, 11 months ago

Long-delayed Grand Avenue project in downtown Los Angeles kicks off

LA Times  

Architect Frank Gehry stands in front of a banner featuring a rendering of the Grand during a groundbreaking ceremony for the new development in downtown Los Angeles on Monday. Architect Frank Gehry, billionaire philanthropist Eli Broad and civic leaders held a ceremonial groundbreaking on Monday for the Grand, a long-delayed massive development on Grand Avenue in downtown Los Angeles. Broad …

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Frank Gehry unveils designs for L.A. Phil’s youth concert hall in Inglewood
6 years, 5 months ago

Frank Gehry unveils designs for L.A. Phil’s youth concert hall in Inglewood

LA Times  

The Los Angeles Philharmonic and Frank Gehry on Wednesday unveiled designs for its YOLA Center, a former bank building that the architect will remake into a 25,000-square-foot youth orchestra hall and performance space in Inglewood. THE CRITIC’S TAKE: Why YOLA Center is so much more than a concert hall » L.A. Phil centennial: Unprecedented plans for new music, plus more …

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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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