Walt Disney Concert Hall Architecture Review

Downtown los angeles offers a lot of beautiful pieces of design and architecture and the best is the walt disney concert hall g o inside if you get chance and on the outside watch the sun bounce of the outside curves.

Walt disney concert hall architecture review. As architecture critic blair kamin wrote in the chicago tribune it was easy for the completed disney to be perceived as bilbao. After receiving much acclaim for his titanium building in bilbao however he was urged to change the stone to metal. Architect frank gehry discusses the creation of walt disney concert hall. Read all 3 036 reviews la phil under gustavo dudamel is one of the greatest orchestras of the world and disney hall is an ideal place for their magical performances.

The idea was to create a reference point for music. Disney hall offers what s been called the best concert hall acoustics in the nation maybe the world. Interview by mark swed. Few buildings in the history of los angeles have come burdened with greater public expectations than the walt disney concert hall.

With this new material gehry was able to tweak the shape of the exterior creating the iconic silver sails we see today. On the outside it is a moon palace a buoyant composition of silvery reflected light. Gehry aimed to do something similar but for cultural rather than political reasons. None has lived up to such expectations so gracefully.

Introduction the walt disney concert hall designed by the architect frank gehry opened in 2003 after many years of gestation. The history of the building began in 1987 when lillian walt disney widow of businessman donates 50 million to start building a philharmonic hall. Note that you must have purchased a p. In architect frank gehry s original design walt disney concert hall was intended to be clad in stone.

Disney hall has at least a dual personality and moods enough to spare. Inside the light shifts to gold.