Frank Gehry Walt Disney Concert Hall Sketch

The hall is a compromise between a vinyard style seating configuration like the ber.

Frank gehry walt disney concert hall sketch. The walt disney hall is my favorite building in los angeles. The walt disney concert hall designed by the architect frank gehry opened in 2003 after many years of gestation. Concert concert hall disney gehry hall los angeles orchestra philharmonic signature venue. Completed october 23 2003 the walt disney concert hall celebrates its tenth anniversary today.

Bounded by hope street grand avenue and 1st and 2nd streets it seats 2 265 people and serves among other purposes as the home of the los angeles philharmonic orchestra and the los angeles master chorale. Designed by architect frank gehry walt disney concert hall is the primary venue for the los angeles philharmonic. The material encompasses the period from gehry s early graduate studies to the 1988 competition entry for the walt disney concert hall in downtown la the year before he won the prestigious. It opened on october 24 2003.

His preliminary design of the disney concert hall actually predates his famous guggenheim museum in bilbao spain but fund raising and other problems stalled the disney project for some 10 years. I took my father who was visiting from colombia in october 2010 1 week before he died. How they embrace and envelop the people in and. Built by frank gehry in los angeles united states with date 2003.

I am proud to show it every time i have out of town visitors. The idea was to create a reference point for music art and architecture which position the city of los angeles in the cultural level. Frank gehry had never seen walt disney concert hall from this perspective before so intimately from above. The history of the building began in 1987 when lillian walt disney widow of businessman donates 50 million to start building a philharmonic hall.

In architect frank gehry s original design walt disney concert hall was intended to be clad in stone. Laid end to end the folding billowing stainless steel exterior panels would stretch for 49 miles. We were at gustavo dudamel s la philharmonic concert and he started to cry. Model created by jodi lane sokolov 4d design and imaging.

The walt disney concert hall at 111 south grand avenue in downtown los angeles california is the fourth hall of the los angeles music center and was designed by frank gehry. With this new material gehry was able to tweak the shape of the exterior creating the iconic silver sails we see today. In july gehry and his friend randolph sherman an amateur pilot were flying over. Images by andrew barber.