Walt Disney Concert Hall

Frank Gehry (American architect, born 1929 in Canada)

Los Angeles, California, United States

United States

1999–2003 (creation)

21st century

Architecture and City Planning

concert halls

performing arts buildings

performing arts structures

Postmodern

Twenty-first century

American

stainless steel

steel

glass

architectural exteriors

architectural interiors

contemporary (1960 to present)

music

Performing arts

Performing arts

interior

acoustical engineering

concert hall

Wall paneling, WALT DISNEY CONCERT HALL, Bounded by Hope Street, Grand Avenue, 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. While the architecture (as with other Gehry works) evoked polarized opinions, the acoustics of the concert hall (designed by Yasuhisa Toyota) were widely praised in contrast to its predecessor, the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. After complaints from neighboring buildings and residents about the sun glare from the stainless steel panels, the owners asked Gehry Partners to come up with a solution. Their response was a computer analysis of the building's surfaces identifying the offending panels. In 2005 these were dulled by lightly sanding the panels to eliminate unwanted glare.

Javier Gomez

Javier Gomez

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