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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …