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Commentary: Frank Gehry's new Colburn design could transform L.A.
2 years, 10 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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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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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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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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