Walt Disney Concert Hall
Item
- Title
- Walt Disney Concert Hall
- Creator
- Frank Gehry (American architect, born 1929 in Canada)
- City
- Los Angeles, California, United States
- Country
- United States
- Date Created
- 1999–2003 (creation)
- Century
- 21st century
- Classification
- Architecture and City Planning
- Style/Period
- Postmodern
- Twenty-first century
- Cultural Context
- American
- Materials
- stainless steel
- steel
- glass
- Subject
- architectural exteriors
- architectural interiors
- contemporary (1960 to present)
- music
- Performing arts
- Performing arts
- interior
- acoustical engineering
- concert hall
- Description
- Exterior view, 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.
- Source
- Javier Gomez
- Photographer
- Javier Gomez
- Rights Holder
- © Javier Gomez
- Texas Tech University Libraries
- Access Rights
- Users must request permission from the copyright holder for all use in publications, including theses and dissertations.
Frank Gehry (American architect, born 1929 in Canada), “Walt Disney Concert Hall”, Texas Tech Arch Design Images -- Open Access Collections, accessed November 24, 2024, https://exhibits.lib.ttu.edu/s/openarch/item/40599