Frank Gehry Walt Disney Concert Hall Plan
We were at gustavo dudamel s la philharmonic concert and he started to cry.
Frank gehry walt disney concert hall plan. Now with the architect named the client group could. Gehry s original plans for the concert hall complex did not include the roy and edna disney calarts theater redcat. He turned to sophisticated computer software called catia computer aided three dimensional interactive application originally created to design french fighter jets. In 1987 lilian disney donated 50 million to establish a concert hall in honor of her late husband walt.
Frank gehry was selected from among several candidates during a design competition the. A founders room and roof. In july gehry and his friend randolph sherman an amateur pilot were flying over. The walt disney hall is my favorite building in los angeles.
I am proud to show it every time i have out of town visitors. I took my father who was visiting from colombia in october 2010 1 week before he died. To bring his bold new vision for the walt disney concert hall to life architect frank gehry needed new tools. The walt disney concert hall designed by the architect frank gehry opened in 2003 after many years of gestation.
Frank gehry was selected from among several candidates during a design competition the. Instead that theater s design was fit in during construction of the the performing arts campus which centered on the walt disney concert hall. Frank gehry had never seen walt disney concert hall from this perspective before so intimately from above. Gehry s plan calls for a glass enclosed 1 100 seat concert hall on one end plus a boxy 700 seat theater for dance chamber opera and experimental performance work.
Los angeles ca gehry s competition winning project proposal for walt disney concert hall marked just the beginning of the design process.