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 …
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 …
