really colburn commentary phils great barenboim space pulled center gate hall work financing saal cultural towers communities restaurants yolas la beatific orchestra river transformed built disney projects studio design plans

Articles for Gehry, search results for construction

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 …

Music Disney Los Angeles Orchestra Center Hall Grand
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 …

School Hill Los Angeles Los Angeles Concert Center
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 …

Construction Pandemic Disney Project Los Angeles Hotel Covid
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 …

Arts Disney City Los Angeles Las Center Hall
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 …

Music Los Angeles Los Angeles Hall Grand Los Angeles Times
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 …

Contemporary Art City California Hill Los Angeles Los Angeles
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, …

Space Office Disney Hollywood Studio Los Angeles Plans
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 …

Construction Work Hill Project Los Angeles Center Bunker