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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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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, 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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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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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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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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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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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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Critic’s Notebook: Frank Gehry went to Berlin to celebrate his 90th birthday. The reason: Music, music, music
5 years, 10 months ago

Critic’s Notebook: Frank Gehry went to Berlin to celebrate his 90th birthday. The reason: Music, music, music

LA Times  

Music Critic When Frank Gehry turned 80, Los Angeles threw a celebration worthy of one of the region’s most illustrious residents, to say nothing of the world’s most celebrated living architect. The occasion was meant to give thanks for the gift Gehry had given Berlin, even though the city didn’t think it wanted or needed such a gift before the …

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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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